Dark Water [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Hassle free transactionSome spoilersthe fact that I didn't like it doesn't mean its not a good film. I just didn't like it. To be fair it was well done.It tells the story of a typical modern day family. divorced mother and father and one lovely child. father goes off to callously live with new partner and mum is left to house herself and daughter in a crummy flat.... sorry, we have to say apartment these days.Why here - it's all mum can afford.Why crummy -it's dirty dilapidated and the whole atmosphere (evidence of the well made film) is oppressive and creepy.Hands up how many people would have stayed there? no go on put your hands up? no -one? odd then that these days when everyone has seen a film a bit like this that someone would dare to stay there in the first place - I'd live further away in a smaller dirtier place that reek of death and the super natural. ON TOP OF ALL THIS Mum Is suffering from some sort of post traumatic stress disorder brought about by a plotline. This plot line involves water. So when the flat... apartment upstairs is visited and is flooded to shin height you'd have thought you know what? that kennel up state - is looking good about now.When weird things start happening and her daughter give cause for mummy to be summoned from work the kennel upstate with a savage dog is looking really good.When mummy goes upstairs - she's there almost as much as she is in her own flat....apartment - and the walls stream with water - or is it blood it was so 'dark and brooding with menace' it was hard to tell - The kennel upstate with savage dog with rabies and puppies is seems positively idyllic.so it's building to a climax. Really? I had no idea. Honestly I said out lout 'just get on with it!'. In the last 15 mins mins the back story to explain all the weirdness unfolds leading to a moment of ahhhh time. Which you know is the precursor to the really big bad bit.To be fair the big bad bit is creepy and done wellish. what I didn't see coming was the last bit. so I wont spoil it for anyone.one thing I wish I hadn't done was watch some of the alternative scenes in the extras because they had an alternative ending and I cant remember exactly which one was in the film. The trust of the ending was the same it was just how there was an added bit of Ahhhness.All in all it was ott for the atmosphere and tried way too hard to be creepy and mysterious and suspenseful. Sometimes those are things you can manufacture but the best examples are just unfolded as natural effects of the story.ACID TEST: would I buy again/recommend - NO

It takes courage to make a thriller with no particular peak or high anxiety. This one is more focus on a drama that slowly unfolds through the movie, a story where all the "thrilling" moments are meant to add a puzzle that reveal not just a mystery to solve in the plot, but a drama to elaborate from within the main character of the movie (an always enchantable Jennyfer Connely)

I thought this was actually pretty good,no I haven't seen the Japanese original,I have seen both versions of The Grudge though and I was pleasantly surprised by that(the American one),It's a rare thing,a 'horror' film with no gore,no gratuitous violence and thankfully no potty mouths,there is honestly more bad language in five minutes of an Eli Roth film than in my entire DVD collection,possibly even my CDs as well!

Very well acted. Never quite sure because of the mother's terrible childhood whether she is really seeing supernatural manifestations or just imagining it. Also we don't know what her pills are for.I thoroughly recommend this.

I'll admit that I bought this film for Jennifer Connelly, and I was pleasantly surprised to watch a dark and tense horror film, that was well acted. The ending wasn't quite to my taste, but don't let that detract from watching the film and drawing your own opinion.

Will never be as creepy as the original Japanese film however this is creepy enough. A well done American version of a Japanese classic !!

I loved this film. I've not watched anything with main actress in since she was in labyrinth but what a fantastic film. Definitely one to watch. Very creepy and haunting

Ok, it's a modern ghost story about a little girl who was abandoned, drowned, in a New York apartment block, and returns to haunt the new tenants. But it's Jennifer Connolly at her best; and it's entirely set on Roosevelt Island, which sits in the East River facing Manhattan, but is shunned by New Yorkers because it has nothing but project housing (council blocks) and once had an asylum or leper colony on it; and you get to it by the funicular from Manhattan, which is the opening shot. Beautiful, sad film; and a little-known account of New York.

Non è propriamente un film horror. A dire la verità mi sembra più un thriller psicologico, dove certe situazioni si presentano solo nella mente di Dahlia Williams, madre di Cecilia, separata dal marito e in procinto di affrontare i problemi di una mamma single. Per di più, l'abbandono di sua madre quando lei era ancora bambina, ingigantisce le sue paure e la sua sensazione di inadeguatezza per il ruolo che dovrà affrontare.E anche la piccola Cecilia, però, dimostra di avere gli stessi "poteri" della madre, pur gestendoli in maniera più serena.Forse non un capolavoro, ma l'atmosfera di questo film è talmente claustrofobica che rende molto reali tutte le situazioni e le fa vivere allo spettatore.Condomini tetri ed in disfacimento, personaggi strani ed inquietanti, cielo plumbeo ed un'incessante pioggia.Acqua dal cielo, acqua nell'appartamento: diciamo che l'acqua è una costante in questo film.Ottime le interpretazioni di tutto il cast. Jennifer Connelly sempre splendida, ed un'interpretazione molto buona da parte della piccola Ariel Gade nei panni di Cecilia.Molto buona la qualità del DVD.

« Dark Water », remake américain du film japonais éponyme, contient tous les ingrédients habituels du cinéma d'angoisse psychologique : une jeune femme fragile en plein divorce et sa petite fille, un immeuble sombre et délabré, une pluie omniprésente, des somnifères, des bruits inexpliqués, des amis imaginaires, des rêves hallucinatoires et le poids de secrets du passé... Le monde réel semble infiltré, au sens propre, par des eaux sombres venues d'ailleurs.Walter Salles parvient à mettre en scène de manière convaincante cette histoire pleine de mystères au point que l'on doute des motivations de chaque personnage ainsi que de leur perception de ce qui se passe vraiment. L'action se situe dans Roosevelt Island, tout près de Manhattan. Ces décors naturels, sombres et tristes, le téléphérique qui relie l'île à la ville et les pluies quasi permanentes contribuent à créer un univers atypique, très éloigné du New-York de carte postale. Joué avec une sobriété très crédible par Jennifer Connelly, une Ariel Gade remarquable dans le rôle de la petite fille et avec également un excellent Tim Roth dans un second rôle, le film atteint son but de manière finalement très classique et sans prendre une dimension véritablement originale.

excelente pelicula de terror, creo que me gusta mas que la japonesa de donde sacaron la historia para hacer estya nueva version

Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly, 34) ist die Tochter-Mutter zwischen Großmutter und Enkelin, traumatisiert von ihrer Rabenmutter, wie uns direkt die erste Einstellung klar macht. Ceci (Ariel Gade, 6) ist die Tochter, die erkennbar beides in sich aufsaugt: die Liebe der Mutter und das dunkle Wasser, das von der Großmutter herrührt, die sie nicht kennt. Gemeinsam ziehen sie in eine heruntergekommene Wohnung, in der das dunkle Wasser von der Decke tropft.Sicher, Dark Water ist das Remake eines japanischen Horrorfilms von Hideo Nakata, aber schon das adaptierte amerikanische Drehbuch (Rafael Yglesias) weist einen anderen Weg, den Regisseur Walter Salles aufgreift und weiter verfolgt. Das Script verwandelt die eher passive japanische Heldin des Originals in eine sehr ergreifende allein-erziehende Mutter, die in einem ganz persönlichen Dilemma gefangen ist, und macht sie zum eigentlichen Kern des Films. Regisseur Salles interessieren vor allem die inneren Dämonen, die wir mit uns tragen und nicht so recht ausmachen können, er transzendiert das Horror-Genre hin zum übernatürlichen Thriller, zum metaphorischen Psychodrama.Bei fast allem, was in dem Film geschieht, fragt man sich, ob es in der Realität passiert oder in Dahlias Kopf. Gerade das macht einen großen Teil des Sehvergnügens aus, das ständige simultane Übersetzen und Deuten der Geschehnisse. Raum für Horror bleibt genug, je mehr Dahlias dunkler Schmerz der Traumatisierung sinnlich erfahrbar wird, je mehr die anrührende Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung strapaziert wird, je mehr sich die bange Frage auftut: Ist etwa der Schmerz größer als die Liebe?!Und was bedeutet das für die ebenso furchtlose wie schutzbedürftige Ceci? Man achte darauf, wie sie in der allerletzten Fahrstuhlszene in den Fahrstuhl hinein geht, und wie sie wieder heraus kommt.Bei der Arbeit am Set mag das Drehen in nasser Kleidung (im Winter!) "schmerzvoll" gewesen sein, aber der Film vermittelt deutlich, dass er von der gesamten Crew in all seinen Phasen liebevoll gemacht wurde. Mit einer gut aufgelegten Schauspielertruppe und mit einer Jennifer Connelly und Ariel Gade, deren Darstellung vor Glaubwürdigkeit strotzt.

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Great Movie.Really enjoyed it.

Film per tutti quelli che amano le sensazioni forti, condite da spettri. non un horror ma un buon thriller. da vedere.

Personnellement, j'ai adoré cette histoire que j'avais déjà vue. Je préfère cette version. je recommande. Les acteurs sont parfaits. A voir

Tout est OK!

great

Ho deciso di dare il massimo della lavorazione perchè si tratta di un film bellissimo, molto triste e cupo, secondo me sottovalutato.

Film angoissant et émouvant . Une fin surprenante . Un film qui fait froid dans le dos . Les acteurs sont formidables .

Non è un horror, è poco thriller, è molto ben interpretato da Una Jennifer Connelly splendida come sempre. Il finale è triste e deludente, molto bella la fotografia. Scordatevi la suspance.

見てる間中怖かったです。最後は涙が出そうで、ハッピーエンドではなかったものの、心にじんとくるものがありました。