Dark Water 2002

6.777 / 10   574 vote(s)
Horror Mystery Thriller

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

Release Date 2002-01-19
Runtime 1h 41m
Directors Hideo Nakata, Junichiro Hayashi, Masaki Adachi
Producers Takashige Ichise, Takanori Sato
Writers Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kôji Suzuki, Takashige Ichise, Hideo Nakata, Kenichi Suzuki

This was very enjoyable and I especially loved the ambience, murkiness and palpable dread that coruscated throughout. This scared my son, a budding horror-film aficionado himself, surprisingly much more than I felt more horrific films he has watched did, and gave him nightmares for a while afterwards.

As much as I love Jennifer Connelly and Walter Salles' work, I will try and avoid the English-language remake simply on general principle.

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