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	Dark Water (2002 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, who is better known as the director of Ringu and Ringu 2, and based on a work by Koji Suzuki.
		As the door to the elevator closes she sees that the figure pursuing her is in fact her own daughter - and realises that the lift's other occupant is in fact the reanimated corpse of the drowned child, claiming her for its mother at last.
		The film's theme of a drowned innocent child transmorgrifying into a malevolent spiritual force is almost identical to that of Ringu - although the immediate cause of death in this case is accidental.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dark_Water_(2002_film) (568 words)

	2005 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2005; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year.
		In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada.
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2005_in_film (1421 words)

	Sun.Star Davao - Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara)
		Dark Water's story is about a young mother, Matsubara Yoshimi (played by Kuroki), who is going through a very messy divorce from a manipulative husband, and fighting for permanent custody of their five-year old daughter Ikuko (cute Rio Kanno).
		Meanwhile, water seems to be staining and dripping everywhere in the ceiling of her apartment.
		Water serves a very significant point in the story, giving us clues and images to what is going to happen, like some harbinger of doom.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/dav/2005/09/23/life/dark.water.(honogurai.mizu.no.soko.kara).html (676 words)

	Dark Water (2005) - A Review by David Nusair
		Dark Water recycles most of its predecessors plot points - particularly those revolving around the mystery of the leak - but integrates an entirely new component focusing on Dahlia's abusive childhood and her tenuous mental state.
		Dark Water's emphasis on characters and atmosphere will surely turn off viewers hoping for some cheap thrills and a rote storyline, while those in search for something a little deeper will undoubtedly walk away satisfied.
		This is one of the most intelligent, gripping, and flat-out entertaining films to hit theaters in a long while, and it's certainly a refreshing change of pace from the mindless fare that generally populates multiplexes during the summer months.
	www.reelfilm.com /darkwter.htm (408 words)

	Warwick Student Cinema - Film Information: Dark Water(2005)
		Dark Water is the latest Hollywood remake of a successful Japanese horror film, this time translating the latest film from Hideo Nakata, the man behind Ringu.
		The film begins with Cecilia and her mother looking for a new place to live; money is very short and they end up settling in a run down apartment building in a remote part of New York.
		Dark Water's translation has been to make a film that sacrifices some of its horror for characters that are easier to understand.
	www.filmsoc.warwick.ac.uk /index.php?page=filminfo&id=1350 (423 words)

	The Film Asylum Review - Dark Water (Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly)
		The cast in Dark Water is a strong one including BAFTA\Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly in the lead role as Dahlia, a mother struggling to get by raising her daughter whilst in a embittered custody case between her and her husband over their young daughter Ceci, played extremely capably by Ariel Gade.
		Maybe Salles didn't have much of a creative input to the film and perhaps it was up to the producers and meddling studio heads to decide how intellectual (or not) the film would end up being but whatever the reason, it doesn't really matter now.
		Dark Water is just an average movie that had a chance of being something special.
	thefilmasylum.com /reviews/darkwater/darkwater.htm (718 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of Dark Water (2005)
		Dark Water is another American remake of a successful Japanese suspense film that barely misses the mark and stumbles over its own intent to thrill.
		The problem with Dark Water is that for all of its outstanding acting and honest attempts at cinematic terror, it fails because of its banal and derivative script (written by the sometimes fabulous, sometimes not Rafael Yglesias, From Hell).
		The film wants to be too many things: a character study, a suspense film, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/darkwater05.shtml (739 words)

	IMDb user comments for Dark Water (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dark Water is more of a thriller/family drama with some horror elements thrown in.
		The film does have its share of suspenseful moments but the movie really focuses on the relationship between a mother and her daughter.
		Dark Water is not a movie for the weak of heart.
	indie.imdb.com /title/tt0382628/usercomments (3015 words)

	UGO.com Film/TV - Dark Water (US) DVD Review - Dark Water Super-Feature
		Although Dark Water isn't the greatest remake to come down the pipe, or a film that scared audiences like The Grudge, nothing makes a horror movie better than gritty atmosphere and with the 2.35:1 anamorphic video transfer you'll be sucked into the mood in minutes.
		With the film's dark atmosphere, the wide angled shots of Roosevelt Island, combined with the depressing color tones of grey, fl, and green are all represented perfectly and so crystal clear that you won't miss one drop of that fl inky water trickling down the walls.
		Overall, Dark Water is a great DVD for fans of either Asian horror re-makes, creepy movies, or fans that love extra features with their DVDs.
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/darkwater/dvdreview.asp (523 words)

	"Dark Water" (2005) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, leaving her to wonder who is behind the endless mind games.
		Jennifer Connelly carries the film well as the mother and newcomer Ariel Gade couldn't be cuter as her daughter who briefly befriends the ghost, while John C. Reilly, Pete Posthelwaite and Dougray Scott all pull off their smaller roles.
		Dark water is a film to watch after it comes out on DVD, when it only costs a couple of dollars to rent.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2005/darkwater2005.html (2202 words)

	Dark Water - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		This was the case in Dark Water, made by Nakata in 2002 and based on a book by Koji Suzuki, who wrote Ringu.
		The real custody battle is with the child in the yellow coat, the malignant ghost who controls the dark water seeping in from all corners.
		The film is well made, with a great support cast that includes Pete Postlethwaite as the building superintendent and Tim Roth as Dahlia's divorce lawyer, but Salles can't or won't make it very scary.
	www.smh.com.au /news/film-reviews/dark-water/2005/10/21/1129775948425.html (994 words)

	Dark Water - Suzuki Koji
		Dark Water was made into a film in 2005, directed by Walter Salles and starring Jennifer Connelly.
		Water is the common element to all the stories in Dark Water.
		The use of water -- a drip in the ceiling, onto the stage, a leak and flood in the stories above -- is effective, a nice contrast to the open-sea stories preceding it.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/japannew/suzukik3.htm (581 words)

	Dark Water / Honogurai mizu no soko kara
		The taut lines of tension throughout the film will have you glued to the screen from the first to the last moment, hooked by the incredibly edgy ambience, and the soundtrack is a delight.
		Dark Water is, partly due to this, a rather non-visual film: the threatening meaning of a child’s little red bag, out of context, doesn’t carry across to screenshots.
		Dark Water is an indispensable work of art for anyone who loves beautiful, intelligent, classy filmmaking in general, and not just for horror fans.
	www.mandiapple.com /snowblood/darkwater.htm (1504 words)

	Dark Water (2005): Reviews
		Based on a film by the creators of the Japanese version of the "The Ring" comes this haunting, chilling, film about a young mother who goes to extreme lengths to solve a mystery and protect her daughter.
		Dark Water has more substance and a more interesting look than many horror films, but the familiar elements of the story disappoint.
		Dark Water isn't a bad horror movie, simply because it isn’t horror at all: a full hour passes before anything remotely scary occurs, and all the suspenseful scenes take place in the final ten minutes (and are all fully shown in the trailer).
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/darkwater (1621 words)

	Dark Water (2005)
		As a fan of the original film directed by Hideo Nakata (Ringu), I went into the screening of the U.S.-remake of Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) with a little trepidation.
		Walter Salles' Dark Water starts off well, with a flashback of a girl standing in the rain after school, waiting for her deadbeat mom to pick her up.
		Dark Water plants its foreshadowing early (unlike the Japanese version), telling you exactly where to look for the source of the bad things, making it completely and strangely anticlimactic when the secret is revealed.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/dark_water_2005.htm (598 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		Dark Water, adapted from Japanese director Hideo Nakata’s 2002 original (Ringu) by the Oscar-nominated director of The Motorcycle Diaries and featuring something of a dream cast, fails, against all odds, to deliver even a single scare.
		Nevertheless, Dark Water is a snooze, a determinedly unfrightening collection of bleak, rainy shots that telegraph little but the difficulty of finding a decent home in New York City today.
		Moments that raised legions of goosebumps in Nakata’s original are here cast out onto the waters like so many soggy breadcrumbs — one in particular, involving some lank fl hair emerging from a bathroom faucet — go absolutely nowhere here, and the overall emotion the film generates is one of moist, enervated ennui.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:278153 (500 words)

	Horror Bob Presents: The Horror Review - Zombielover's Review of "Dark Water" (2005)
		"Dark Water" continues the recent obsession American film makers have with Japanese source material although this film is based on a novel by Koji Suzuki and not a Japanese film.
		The film focuses on a mother and daughter (Jennifer Connelly and Ariel Gade) in the midst of an ugly custody battle who move into a run down apartment building.
		The film touches on a lot of serious issues (abandonment for one) that some might not want in their horror movies but that I feel elevates the film and makes it's premise ultimately believable and moving.
	www.horrorreview.com /2005/zldarkwater.html (661 words)

	The Film Fanatic :: Film Review: Dark Water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The film is the story of Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) who is in the process of separating from her husband Kyle (Dougray Scott) and it is turning out to be a very acrimonious process.
		As the title of the film implies, water does play a central theme in the film and all is made clear in the end.
		Dark Water is not a horror movie in the traditional sense; it’s all about atmosphere and tension.
	www.tashitagg.com /forum/weblog_entry.php?e=557 (584 words)

	Dark Water (2005)
		In Dark Water, we once again have a single mother who, when confronted with a petulant young ghost upset over her own abandonment, must protect her daughter from the ghost's increasingly-violent manifestations of sibling rivalry.
		The few jolts which are sprinkled in the film seem to be afterthoughts, as if the studio realized their movie was straying from its genre and decided to add a couple of cheap scares.
		It's impossible not to compare Dark Water to The Ring movies, not the least reasons for which being that both this and The Ring are based on Japanese books by the same author, and were helmed by the same Japanese director in their original versions.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/DarkWater/DarkWater.html (775 words)

	DVD Times - Dark Water - The Darker Cut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As such, it becomes clear that the strengths of Salles’ Dark Water are remarkably similar to those of Nakata’s and the end result is a film that even the most ambitious director should be proud of.
		While both films have their share of good shock moments, neither relies on the mechanics of the traditional horror film for their effectiveness and the result is something far more complex than any of the Ring films and much closer to something like Kubrick’s The Shining or Peter Medak’s low-key but genuinely distressing The Changeling.
		The terror of the film is based largely on emotional stress and it may well be that many people who respond most deeply to it are those who can empathise with some of the personal tragedies which afflict Dahlia.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=59800 (2925 words)

	DARK WATER (2005) - UNRATED WIDESCREEN EDITION DVD
		Dark water's flooding into the ramshackle apartment she's been forced to rent with young daughter Ceci (Ariel Gade) now that husband Kyle (Dougray Scott) has left her for another woman, where she encounters the visage of her spiteful alcoholic mother.
		During the film proper, I did wonder at the wisdom of the little girl's return--but after looking at the scene that explains it all, it's pretty clear that the picture benefits from this excision.
		Salles does have a weird monologue wherein he states that 50% of a film's success is contingent on the actors, 50% on the crew, and 50% on the screenplay (and 50% on not very good at math)--but I did appreciate the space devoted to Yglesias' process and theory of the picture.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/darkwater.htm (1120 words)

	Dark Water (2005)
		As perhaps a concession to the modern age, the haunted-house story Dark Water is set not in some gloomy old mansion but in the claustrophobic confines of a dank apartment building, and it's all the better for it.
		But in many other ways the film is a fairly classic scary story, albeit one that heightens a mood of mournfulness over incessant spine-straightening scares.
		Dark Water's admirable simplicity and all-enveloping mood (helped along by Angelo Badalamenti's shivery score) are undercut at times by a script that is far from polished.
	www.absolutely.net /movie/2005_Dark_Water_(2005).html (445 words)

	Ottawa XPress - Film - Movie details - Dark Water
		The water and ghostly images were very fake and not as real as I would of hoped for.
		At an advanced screening of "Dark Water", I saw Jennifer Connelly,this Oscar winning actress in her new horror film that was based on a popular Japanese film that I had not seen.This remake,with one of Hollywood's great actress,was one of the reasons I went to the screening.
		This film had potential, except for the fact that it was not scary and was not consistent.
	www.ottawaxpress.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=7087 (2958 words)

	Dark Water (2005): Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite - PopMatters Film Review
		Dark Water hits this dysfunctional mother nerve more than once, particularly in her spats with Kyle, which insinuate an awful marital history even as they suggest that it's her perspective shaping the scene.
		Repeatedly, the film lines up her sense of dread alongside a potential explanation, without granting full credence to either, making your own judgment suspect as well.
		Being a horror movie (and a very good-looking one, even for all its tricks and annoyances), Dark Water can't grant her a solution, or even much of an objective correlative for her suffering (Platzer is more a distraction than a plot mechanism).
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/d/dark-water-2005.shtml (1482 words)

	IGN: Dark Water (2005) Review
		Like most Japanese "imports" in the genre, Dark Water tries to nail psychological trickery, despite the tendency for many from this 'J-wave' to come up short (outside of The Ring, that is).
		Dark Water is one of those few films that will come immediately to mind when remembering completely wasted, perfectly fine performances; not to mention the fact that this "unrated" version is no creepier than the theatrical version.
		The film is presented in Widescreen 2.35:1, and is enhanced for 16x9 televisions.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/682/682241p1.html (1284 words)

	Dark Water (2005) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci.
		Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games.
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	www.hollywoodjesus.com /dark_water.htm (536 words)

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