In his native Brazil, Salles made the internationally awarded dramas Central Station and Behind the Sun, both stories of poverty and struggle on the margins of society. "I Got Soul" Kyle wants Cecilia to live closer to his apartment in Jersey City, but Dahlia wants to move to the cheaper Roosevelt Island, where she has found a good school. Cecilia's teacher is troubled by Cecilia's "imaginary friend", Natasha. It ultimately drives her to find out what happened to Natasha (Perla Haney-Jardine), the daughter of Russian immigrants who lived in the apartment above Dahlia's place. The Dark Dweller is a powerful, evil creature that created the Dark Water. Reviews of the film were mixed. Dark Water is a 2005 American supernatural horror drama film directed by Walter Salles, starring Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth. A Blu-ray Disc was released on October 17, 2006, but it only contains the widescreen PG-13 theatrical version and fewer extras than the DVD releases. [5], From The Washington Post, Ann Hornaday called it a "Tasteful but unremitting bummer and yet one more case of an Oscar-winning actress proving that she can still do the kinds of disposable movies big awards are supposedly meant to banish from your résume forever." You might enjoy it more if you’ve never seen the original. She finds a family portrait of the former tenants, the Rimsky family: a mother, father, and a girl named Natasha who is Cecilia's age. Troubled divorcée Dahlia Williams (Connelly) moves into a rundown apartment with her young daughter Ceci (Gade), desperately seeking … It brought it many different emotions and kept me engaged through atmosphere and creepy plot points. And yet she holds it together. The Cove (2009) Show Less. The film is a remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name, which is in turn based on the short story "Floating Water" by Koji Suzuki, who also wrote the Ring trilogy. Even the little girl haunting the apartment building is more nuanced in the American film, the product of cruel neglect from multiple adults consumed with their own self-interest. Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan.The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals. Performed by Crystal Kay, Soundtrack music by Angelo Badalamenti Dark Water is a collection of short horror infused stories that all prominently feature water in their narrative. [6], For Slant Magazine Nick Schager writes "Similar to other stateside revisions of J-horror imports, Salles’s ghost story improves upon its source material’s paper-thin characterizations and mood of poignant anxiety even as its narrative explications drain any aura of irrational dread, a reasonable trade-off considering how few frights Nakata’s sodden dud generated from its illogical atmosphere. (uncredited) And it’s a shame. The movie opened to a rocky start with only making $9,939,251, which is 39.0% of the movie's total gross, on its opening weekend. Dahlia agrees to move closer to Kyle so that shared custody will be easier. Wow, what a great movie. The Dark Dweller (voiced by Frank Welker) – One of the primary antagonists of the series. Natasha begs Dahlia not to leave but Dahlia rushes into the bathroom to save Cecilia. Dahlia takes an occasional pill (for migraines, as she tells her lawyer) and sometimes flashes back to her troubled childhood, crying out to a mother who abandoned her. Show More. That emotional trauma only motivates her to be the best mother that she can be to Ceci. Best viewed as a family drama-come-Tale Of The Unexpected rather than a full-on horror". 19 0 2. redesign of my dark water mage skin . Even without the vengeful ghost of a little girl invading her home, Dahlia's life is close to falling apart. There's no safety net for these vulnerable women, no system designed to protect them or even acknowledge them. "She's lost like you," Ceci says to Dahlia about the girl who first seems to be Ceci's imaginary friend. As i expected, some people obviously just want to make it sound bad for the sake of it. Salles and screenwriter Rafael Yglesias take Nakata's film as a starting point … The movie is a remake of a 2002 thriller by the Japanese horror specialist Hideo Nakata, whose work also inspired the "Ring" pictures. Dahlia makes an offer the same day. With the near-constant severe downpour, you can feel the dampness in every frame, permeating every space the characters inhabit, even when they're ostensibly warm and dry. The original movie, directed by The Ring's Hideo Nakata and based on the short story Floating Water by Koji Suzuki, author of The Ring's source novels, follows a single mother in the process of an ugly divorce. Dahlia complains to Murray and the superintendent Veeck about the water, but Veeck insists that he is not a plumber and blames teenage vandals. Dahlia feels some form of relief knowing that Kyle will keep her safe. Starting off with the American remake, the movie takes place in New York as a mom going through a divorce moves to Roosevelt Island with her daughter. All of the horrors in Salles' film have their roots in social inequality and neglect. The movie further connects Dahlia to Natasha by having Haney-Jardine play young Dahlia in flashbacks. Cecilia appears to argue with Natasha and lose control of her hand as she paints. In the bathroom, Cecilia passes out as dark water gushes from the toilets and sinks. Dark Water (live-action movie 2005) (remake) Alternative title: Aguas Oscuras (Spanish) Honogurai Mizu no Soko Kara (Japanese) 仄暗い水の底から (Japanese) Genres: drama , horror. Veeck kept claiming that Natasha's parents paid him money to keep quiet about their willful abandonment of their daughter and lie for them that she was with either of them. Starring opposite Jennifer Connelly in the 2005 film Dark Water and the 2007 film Hit Man, Scott soon appeared in US television for the first time in the ABC miniseries The Ten Commandments as well the Hallmark TV movie Arabian Nights. A remake of the 2002 Japanese Horror film, “Dark Water” in this first English language film from Walter Salles, who mixes moody suspense with spot-on social satire and blends it into a heartbreaking supernatural drama. [3], For Rolling Stone, Peter Travers reviews the film as "A classy ghost story is just the ticket in a summer of crass jolts... Screenwriter Rafael Yglesias (Fearless) stays alert to the psychological fears that underpin the supernatural doings in the apartment upstairs. The film also stars John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dougray Scott and Ariel Gade. Remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name from the progenitors of “The Ring,” novelist Koji Suzuki and helmer Hideo Nakata, is dripping with clammy, claustrophobic atmosphere, but ultimately reveals itself as just another mildewed, child-centric ghost story of little import or resonance." HD. ; Nausea Fuel: The water in the apartment is known to be dirty by the residents - Yoshimi even finds a hair in her glass of water early on.The reason for this? Dark Water (2002) vs Dark Water (2005) February 15, 2016 by Corin Totin in Original vs Remake Often times a remake is used to update a classic film for a new generation but when the remake is a mere three years from the original it’s hard to see it as anything other than a Hollywood cash-grab. It went on to make $25,473,093 domestically and $24,000,000 in the international box office, adding up to a worldwide box office total of $49,473,093.[8]. 2 + Follow - Unfollow "[2], William Thomas wrote in Empire the film as "Interesting and unsettling, but never terrifying. The only recourse that poor Natasha has is to become a ghost and wreak havoc, and even then, it's only Dahlia who cares. Dark Water 2005. Dark Water is a 2005 American supernatural horror drama film directed by Walter Salles, starring Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth. Dahlia strives to provide a stable home for her six-year-old daughter Ceci (Ariel Gade), and Kyle makes it anything but easy for her. Floods overwhelm the apartment, and Natasha and the ghost of Dahlia walk the hall as mother and daughter. She fell into the water tower and drowned, leaving her as a vengeful ghost who is jealous of Cecilia because she has Dahlia as her mother. Not scary at any point with few scenes bettering the original in anyway. Veeck claims that he isn't authorized to fix the plumbing, and then Murray claims that Veeck is the one responsible for repairs. Although short on scares and classic horror, Dark Water offers a very atmospheric and moody sense of dread. (Japanese Theme Song) While the set-up is exactly the same, Dark Water is prime for a remake. Adapted by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias, the American Dark Water starts from the same premise, with harried mother Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) searching for an affordable apartment in New York City as she's in the midst of a divorce and custody battle with her soon-to-be-ex-husband Kyle (Dougray Scott). Kyle wants Cecilia to live closer to his apartment in Jersey City, but Dahlia wants to move to A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: A 15th anniversary celebration of Jennifer Connelly in “Dark Water”. Neither Salles, who was coming off his critically acclaimed Che Guevara biopic The Motorcycle Diaries, nor Yglesias, best known for adapting his own novel into the Jeff Bridges drama Fearless, had ever worked in horror before. Dahlia retreats to the isolated enclave of Roosevelt Island, in the middle of the East River between Manhattan and Queens, where she finds an apartment in a stark, dingy building that property manager Mr. Murray (John C. Reilly) claims were built in the "brutalist" style. The film is a remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name, which is in turn based on the short story "Floating Water" by Koji Suzuki, who also wrote the Ring trilogy. The film is an American remake … Written by Traditional, "Namidaga Afuretemo" Dahlia and Cecilia view an apartment in a dilapidated complex on Roosevelt Island, a few blocks from Cecilia's new school. The same men (Murray and Veeck) who ignore Dahlia and gaslight her about what's really causing the damage to her apartment are the ones whose neglect led to Natasha's demise. US television audiences next saw Scott in the NBC series Heist as well as the hit ABC series Desperate Housewives. Critics at the time were mostly underwhelmed, and the movie wasn't a major box-office success. In the elevator, Dahlia braids Cecilia's hair, telling her she will always be with her. [4], Todd McCarthy of Variety says that "The ominous downpours that have drenched much of recent Asian cinema soak New York in “Dark Water,” the well-crafted but thoroughly unsuspenseful Hollywood debut by Brazilian director Walter Salles. Dark Water is available on DVD, in two releases. We revisit Hanna-Barbera's mid-1990s animated property, THE PIRATES OF DARK WATER, a nautical fantasy following a band of treasure-hunting pirates. There is also a PlayStation Portable UMD video version of the film. In turn, they also conclude that Natasha was left to fend for herself. "'Dark Water' is the scariest ghost story since 'The Sixth Sense'!" (766) IMDb 5.6 1 h 44 min 2005 X-Ray PG-13. Shortly after they move in, the bedroom ceiling begins to leak dark water. [7], Dark Water played in 2,657 theaters with a complete average run of 3.2 weeks. Natasha locks Cecilia in the shower compartment and holds her underwater. Dark water is a remake of the Japanese version Honogurai mizu no soko kara, in the every growing remake of Japanese horror remakes. 49 . I use "Dark Water" because that's how it looks on the logo, the characters almost always pronounce it as if it's two words, and this way is more grammatically correct. Inside she finds Natasha's body and calls the police, horrified. Dark Water. When Dahlia hears Cecilia playing in the bathtub, she realizes that the girl is Natasha. Alternative titles: Agua turbia, Mračne vode, La Huella, Dark Water US Remake, Temacna voda, Tumma vesi, Agua Turbia, Στοιχειωμένο νερό, Karanlik su, Тёмная вода. (the original one at least, I didn't feel it in the American remake) A short explanation on what's happening in this picture. The lawyer in the original film is mostly a source of exposition and a bureaucratic facilitator. Rather than fight or attack the ghost who haunts her, Dahlia becomes an advocate for justice, enlisting the help of possibly shady attorney Jeff Platzer (Tim Roth) to seek out the truth about Natasha's disappearance. Meanwhile, the stain grows, and Kyle has hired a legal team to tear apart Dahlia's fitness as a parent and win Ceci's custody. One of the wildest theories is that Lam was murdered in an attempt to replicate the events of the 2005 horror movie Dark Water. Salles unleashes a torrent of suspense for one purpose: to plumb the violence of the mind." A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building, where they are targeted by the ghost of a former resident. Connelly plays Dahlia with just the right mix of anger and vulnerability, often on the verge of breaking down but always composing herself afterward, finding a way to be the best possible advocate for herself and her child. Directed by Walter Salles. Dark Water (aka Honogurai Mizu no Soko kara, translating to "From Under the Murky Water") is a 2002 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, best known for being the director of Ring and Ring 2.The film is based on Floating Water, a short story by Koji Suzuki (who also wrote the Ring series of novels), from his horror anthology also titled Dark Water. I mean, this is a remake, so it has to be bad, right ? "Dark Water," a new horror film starring Jennifer Connelly, suggests that in New York, people are not only willing to kill for an affordable apartment, but may have to die, too. Dark Water is the only horror movie that made me and my sister cry, seriously, it's a very tear-jerking movie. Ultimately Dark Water is a poorly done supernatural remake. The plots of both the original Japanese version and the American remake of Dark Water are pretty much the same. Still, it's even more frightening to be tossed aside into a crumbling residence, desperately fighting to be heard but encountering only cold indifference. While both the Ring and Grudge franchises have been revived in the U.S. in the last few years, no one is clamoring to return to Dark Water. Dahlia was once left alone to fend for herself, and she won't do that to Ceci or to Natasha. The site's critics' consensus reads: "All the atmospherics in Dark Water can't make up for the lack of genuine scares. Dark Water (2002) vs Dark Water (2005) February 15, 2016 by Corin Totin in Original vs Remake Often times a remake is used to update a classic film for a new generation but when the remake is a mere three years from the original it’s hard to see it as anything other than a Hollywood cash-grab. Note that exact specifications vary by DVD region. Written by John Martinez and Josh Kessler The film also stars John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dougray Scott and Ariel Gade. As Dahlia is busy meeting her lawyer, Jeff Platzer, Kyle takes Cecilia to his apartment. Koji Suzuki has a talent of making his settings extremely tangible without … Murray blows her off, pretending to be in a meeting as he heads into an off-track betting parlor. The mood is dark and foreboding, yet there is a major flaw; its not scary. When Walter Salles' Dark Water was released in July 2005, it was part of a wave of American remakes of Asian (primarily Japanese) horror movies, following the successful American J-horror remakes The Ring and The Grudge.Dark Water's release presaged the forthcoming cheapening of the trend, with forgettable takes on Pulse, The Eye, and One Missed Call, among others, on the way. Spoiler alert: while the death of Lam is yet to be resolved, many viewers have spotted numerous parallels between her story and that of the 2002 Japanese horror film Dark Water and its 2005 US remake. 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. Yet given its pedigree—author Suzuki also wrote Ringu, which was directed by Nakata—it’s no surprise that this slick adaptation is also a moldy, third-generation retread of The Ring." Though the original version wasn't scary either. About 1 year ago . In a movie with more subtext than Rosemary’s Baby, nearly everyone, including Tim Roth as Dahlia’s lawyer, harbors secrets. Dahlia finds the apartment above flooded from every faucet. The film opens in 1974 as a young girl, Dahlia, stands outside after school in the rain, waiting for her mother. The premise of this film doesn’t seem as scary as the others. Moral Event Horizon: Veeck crosses this in the remake.He knew about Natasha's decomposing body in the water tank, but decided to leave it there because, in his words "It wasn't his job". It’s aged horribly & proof that having a well-known cast doesn’t mean shit when it comes to creating an atmosphere or tension. After Dahlia catches Cecilia playing with dolls and talking to Natasha in the elevator, she forbids Cecilia to talk to Natasha again. When Walter Salles' Dark Water was released in July 2005, it was part of a wave of American remakes of Asian (primarily Japanese) horror movies, following the successful American J-horror remakes The Ring and The Grudge. The building's creaky, malfunctioning elevator and noisy, sputtering pipes are the kinds of everyday horrors that usually just indicate poor maintenance, not restless specters, and their mundane unpleasantness makes them more insidious. Courtesy of Marc Ferrari/MasterSource, "Itsy Bitsy Spider" That night, Dahlia follows footsteps to the roof and sees that water is spilling from the water tower. Dahlia pleads with Natasha to let her daughter go, promising to be her mother forever. Dahlia and Platzer discover that Natasha's parents had cruelly abandoned her. I haven't seen the Japanese one, but for a remake this one is nice. Exploring the Understated J-horror Remake ‘Dark Water’. The other is in widescreen (aspect ratio 2.35:1) and includes an unrated cut, which is actually shorter than the theatrical cut and runs at 103 minutes. Three weeks later, Kyle and Cecilia pick up the rest of their belongings. Reilly radiates insincerity as Murray, a first-rate huckster who can claim an apartment has two bedrooms because the living room doubles as the second bedroom, and who calls the floor below the top floor the "lower penthouse level." Review. "Some of their original plans for the place were a little crazy," he tells Dahlia, with Kyle's same kind of dismissive attitude. As she packs, a girl in a hooded bathrobe who resembles Cecilia asks her to read to her. Dark water mage remake BubbaBandit. Veeck is arrested for negligence as he was aware of her body. There's a decomposing corpse in the water tank. A leaky apartment turns out to have a terrifying connection to the supernatural in this bone-chilling tale starring Jennifer Connelly. Dark Water's release presaged the forthcoming cheapening of the trend, with forgettable takes on Pulse, The Eye, and One Missed Call, among others, on the way. That underestimation makes Salles' film prime for rediscovery, though, and it's a gem among the '00s crop of American takes on Asian horror. Edit: This was actually sort of an April fools joke, this is an actual user review of Dark Water from Imdb. It currently holds a 47% "Rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 154 reviews, with an average score of 5.54/10. Still, Platzer is a caring friend and a character in his own right, with oddball quirks like how he seems to run his entire practice out of his car, always "on the way" to meetings that may not actually exist. Using the plot and characters of the 2002 Japanese film, it tells an American story about the struggles of single motherhood and the failures of urban infrastructure. She moves with her young daughter into a rundown apartment building, where an ominous stain in the corner of her bedroom is the harbinger of an angry spirit. Directed by Walter Salles. Performed by Mike Gallagher Salles and Yglesias treat Dark Water with the gravity and respect of a serious domestic drama, fleshing out characters who were mainly plot devices in Nakata's film, and grounding the movie in a specific time and place. One release is in pan and scan full screen and includes the theatrical cut, which is PG-13 and runs 105 minutes. That's not to say that Dark Water isn't creepy, but the scares aren't the priority, and the filmmakers don't just copy the already familiar J-horror devices. Dahlia battles her ex-husband Kyle for custody of their daughter Cecilia, a five-year-old kindergartener. This isn't helped by a recurring nightmare she has, seeing Natasha's mother warning her not to tell the police what she's done to her own daughter or else she will harm Cecilia. It was a lot better than I expected it to be. Flash forward to 2005, we see a grown-up Dahlia in the midst of a bitter mediation with her ex-husband, Kyle, over custody of their daughter, Cecilia. They both come from backgrounds in literary adaptations, and they imbue their filmmaking with a social conscience. Dark Water. The building could not look more inhospitable, but Dahlia takes the apartment because it's the right price, and it's only two blocks away from a school that's supposed to be one of the best in the city, where Ceci can find some stability and support. This was why he refused to fix the complex's plumbing problems, and he is taken away. Cecilia initially dislikes the apartment but decides she wants to live there. Read more. With Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth. The film was released on July 8, 2005, to mixed reviews and grossed almost $50 million worldwide.[1]. Performed by Scar featuring Filthy Rich Connelly digs deep into the role of a woman with issues of abandonment and rage that slowly reveal their roots. Dahlia is intimidated by teenagers in the apartment, and sees the face of a screaming girl in a washing machine. The indifference of the men surrounding her only isolates Dahlia further, and when she notices a discolored water stain on her ceiling, no one has any interest in helping her. Courtesy of Marc Ferrari/MasterSource, "Electrified" Murray introduces her to the taciturn, vaguely Eastern European building superintendent Veeck (Pete Postlethwaite), who doesn't even bother to feign enthusiasm about Dahlia's new home. He had the Treasures originally scattered because their power is the only thing capable of opposing him and his evil master plan to swallow Mer in Dark Water. 2 + Follow - Unfollow Posted on: Mar 20, 2020 . The ceiling, shoddily patched by Veeck, leaks again. It's scary to be pursued by a ghost, sure. 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