While his movie lacks the psychological resonance of Rosemary's Baby or The Sixth Sense, it easily equals their creep-out quotient.
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Dark Water (2005)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:66
Rotten:78
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: All the atmospherics in Dark Water can't make up for the lack of genuine scares.
Theatrical Release:Jul 8, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $25,416,400
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Walter Salles ("Central Station," "The Motorcycle Diaries") helms and Academy Award®-winner Jennifer Connelly stars in DARK WATER, a psychological thriller featuring a stellar... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Walter Salles
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Top CriticA dull and occasionally risible remake of an even duller, more risible Japanese horror flick ...
07/07/05
Dark Water is a lesson in how to transform atmospheric J-horror into soggy B filmmaking.
07/07/05
With his stirring visual sense very much intact here, Salles sets the creepy mood eloquently, but the picture ultimately fails to reward all the little shivers with any satisfying jolts.
07/07/05
Top CriticDark Water will leave some viewers scratching their heads, while others will be wide-eyed with appreciation. This viewer, at least, is reasonably wide-eyed.
07/07/05
Top CriticThere are only so many thrills you can generate with terrible plumbing.
07/07/05
Director Walter Salles give this shocker an added psychological/ dramatic level that heightens the shivers.
07/07/05
Top CriticDark Water achieves some, but not all, of what we might hope for.
07/07/05
Top CriticSome may consider Dark Water too leisurely paced, but it's refreshing to see a film that doesn't shoo the ghost from a closet in the first half hour.
07/07/05
Top Critic...[one of the best] films to hit theaters in a long while...a refreshing change of pace from the mindless fare that generally populates multiplexes during the summer months.
07/07/05
Although the film portends to be a creepy ghost story, you'll more than likely be bored to tears, which, of course, will be lost in all the icky water gushing everywhere.
07/07/05
[Dark Water] is dripping with clammy, claustrophobic atmosphere, but ultimately reveals itself as just another mildewed, child-centric ghost story of little import or resonance.
07/07/05
Top CriticDark Water is based on one of those low-key Japanese chillers where there are a whole lot of potentially scary things and maybe one thing that actually turns out to be scary.
07/07/05
Salles takes an approach to building tension best described as methodical, which to many viewers is going to translate simply to 'boring.'
07/07/05
Connelly and the wide-eyed Gade are so good together as mother and daughter that their performances -- along with the fine supporting work of Reilly, Roth and Postlethwaite -- carry the film. And the day.
07/07/05
Top CriticIf there's such a thing as a film being too suggestive for too little, Dark Water may be its prototype.
07/07/05
Top CriticNo amount of tastefully desaturated color or imaginary friends going whoo-whoo in the deserted apartment upstairs can save this lumbering echt-thriller from fatal tedium.
07/07/05
Maybe Ring is spookier. But Water's female character is the better woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
07/07/05
Top CriticThis 'Water' may be agreeably dark, but it turns out that it's disappointingly shallow, too.
07/07/05
A high quality production, with strong direction, great acting, but ultimately not much crawling beneath the surface.
07/07/05
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