DARK
WATER
With
Jennifer
Connelly,
Ariel
Gade,
Jennifer
Baxter,
Linda
Emond,
John
C
Reilly,
Tim
Roth,
Dougray
Scott,
Pete
Postlethwaite,
Shelly
Duvall
Directed
by
Walter
Salles
The
dinosaur
craze
is
over,
so
is
the
Halloween-styled
Scream
rips.
The
next
frontier
is
for
Hollywood
to
not
only
rip
off
the
modern
Japanese
horror
film,
but
to
actually
remake
them
even
before
some
of
the
originals
hit
the
screen!
Sure,
it
will
blow
over
eventually,
but
do
yourself
a
favour
and
try
to
catch
the
originals
before
they
get
the
Hollywood
make-over.
With
The
Ring
leading
the
pack
(its
sequel
remake
directed
by
the
series'
original
guy,
Hideo
Nakata).
Like
so
many
Japanese
horror
films,
Nakata
loves
the
haunting
kid
subject
and
elevators,
water
also
playing
a
prominent
part.
When
the
Ring
2's
remake
hit
our
shores
I
in
fact
thought
it
was
a
combination
of
Nakata's
Dark
Water
(having
read
some
bits
on
it).
But,
in
fact
they
just
reveal
an
obsessed
with
similar
subjects.
Here
the
engaging
Connelly
plays
a
young
mother
who
is
going
through
a
difficult
divorce
and
has
to
share
custody
of
her
daughter.
They
have
to
move
to
a
more
affordable
apartment
just
outside
of
New
York
City
on
Roosevelt
Island.
From
the
get-go
the
rundown
building
seems
strange.
Soon
haunting
phenomena
related
to
water
start
to
disrupt
their
lives.
A
slow,
brooding
pace
and
eerie
moments
enhance
the
mood,
and
while
it's
not
exactly
an
all-out
scare-fest,
it
is
an
engaging
study
of
a
mother's
instincts
to
keep
her
child
in
every
sense
of
the
word.
PS.
I
didn't
spot
Shelley
Duvall,
daughter
of
Robert
who
played
opposite
Jack
Nicholson
in
Stanley
Kubrick's
film
version
of
Stephen
King's
The
Shining
(unless
she
was
one
of
the
brief
marriage
consultants
bit
players...)
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