Dark Water Movie Review 2005

Dahlia Williams' (Connelly) soon-to-be ex-husband tells her she's nuts and she wonders if he might be right when she moves with her five-year-old daughter Ceci (Gabe) into a dilapidated and perhaps, yes, haunted Roosevelt Island apartment that is plagued by creepy noises from a supposedly vacant flat upstairs. Then there's that little-but-quickly-expanding water stain on the ceiling that seems a little...alive. Tries to be spooky but is just all wet. Based on Hideo Nakata's 2002 Japanese horror film of the same name.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on DVD
Running time 120 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Stolen from Asia, Supernatural Horror, Hallucinations/Illusions, Single Parents, Sanity Check, Creepy Houses, Custody Battles, Moms

Screenplay

Rafael Yglesias

Cast

Ariel Gade, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Pete Postlethwaite, Dougray Scott, Camryn Manheim, Perla Haney-Jardine, Debra Monk, Elina Lowensohn, Jennifer Baxter

Cinematography

Alfonso Beato

Director

Walter Salles

Music

Angelo Badalamenti

Other

Glen Gauthier, Daniel Rezende, Andrew Stearn, Nicholas Lundy, Michael Wilkinson, Therese DePrez

Producer

Bill Mechanic, Roy Lee, Doug Davison, Pandemonium/Vertigo Entertainment, Buena Vista