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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: CONNELLY,JENNIFER EAN: 9780788859038 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 078885903X Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Languages: Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone MPN: 786936242904 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 26, 2005 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Theatrical Release Date: July 08, 2005 Editorial Review: Product Description: Following a bitter custody battle, a mother and daughter move into an apartment that is haunted by the disturbed ghost of a former resident. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: UN Release Date: 26-DEC-2005 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: In many ways Dark Water improves upon the memorable Japanese film it's based on. The earlier version was directed by Hideo Nakata (whose excellent shocker Ringu was remade in America as The Ring), but in the hands of director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) and screenwriter Rafael Yglesias, this psychological horror story gets an intelligent and more chillingly effective overhaul. The story is rooted in themes of love and loss that Yglesias similarly explored in his excellent screenplay for Peter Weir's Fearless, here focusing on young mother Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) as she endures difficult divorce proceedings and settles into a low-rent apartment in New York's cramped Roosevelt Island community, near Manhattan, with her young daughter Cecilia (Ariel Gade). Amidst seemingly endless rainfall, Dahlia's world slowly unravels, and Connelly is superb as a woman seemingly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or is she? Could it be that Cecilia's imaginary friend, and the apartment's persistent leaks of dark, dripping water, are the ghostly manifestations of a young girl who had been abandoned by the previous tenant? Creepy atmosphere and high anxiety are expertly maintained by Salles, and supporting roles for Tim Roth, John C. Reilly and especially Pete Postlethwaite give the film an added edge of mystery. The tension builds slowly (gore-mongers and action fans may be disappointed), but the cumulative effect is palpably unnerving, inviting favorable comparison to Rosemary's Baby. Unlike some other remakes of Japanese horror hits, Dark Water doesn't feel redundant; it stands on its own thanks to the impressive work of everyone involved. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The beginning of the end for After seeing the excellent "Ring" and "Grudge" movies, I was so psyched to see Dark Water. How could they go wrong with this new and exciting wave of horror, especially with Jennifer Connelly in it? The work she did in A Beautiful Mind was brilliant, so I was eager to see what she would bring to this movie. Dark Water turned out to be an unfortunate misstep for Ms. Connelly. The movie has so many problems.............. This really was the first "J" horror bomb and you ... Read More Rating: - Anti-climatic Wash-upDark Water is great at manufacturing tension using a contemporary project (apartment) complex as the source of shadows, dim and yellow light, strange noises, and black-colored water. The tension is level almost from the beginning of the movie until the end, and rarely is there a scary moment to break it. Even the comic relief of the daughter is unintentional as she plays with her toys in the bathtub -- although she steals this scene, it is due to her personality, not the script. This film ... Read More Rating:  - Anathema to say so in some quarters, but I preferred this to the original.I loved the original of "Dark Water" and expected to be disappointed by this, as in the terrible remake of "Ring", but I was very pleasantly surprised to find this was a most excellent movie and better than the original, in that this one didn't leave in what seemed like unnecessary parts, which in the original seemed to drag in places, whereas this one never seemed to lose its atmosphere but continued on with its slow building feeling of dread. The original film seemed to include too much more going on, ... Read More Rating: - Could rival Stephen KingThe strength of Steven King is being keeping his creepiness on the edge of what can be real or normal. This story, a remake of the Japanese film by Hideo Nakata and based on "Honogurai Soko Kara" by Koji Suzuki is one of those that are just on the edge of real. Probably mentally challenged Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) is in the middle of a nasty divorce and due to economics is moving with her daughter `Ceci' (Ariel Gade) to a creepy slum tenement. Her daughter is also going a little ... Read More Rating: - I was hoping for more than what I got.I remember when this movie was first released a few years ago and, being a huge fan of horror movies, I wanted to see what it was all about. It wasn't until recently that I had the chance to finally watch it. Turns out, it was highly disappointing. So what's this movie about? Dahlia is in the midst of a divorce with her husband. Having to find a new place to live as well as a new job is no easy task. Not to mention that she has a daughter, Cecilia, to look after. The mother and daughter duo ... Read More |
