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The conventional narrative follows Yoshimi's increasingly desperate attempts to discover who or what force is haunting her daughter, but the story's execution is far from predictable. Nakata is the master of understated suspense: there's always a feeling of motiveless malignancy that runs like an undercurrent through his films--far more frightening than out and out shocks--and here he also practically drowns his audience in water imagery. The film is saturated; the relentless dripping in the apartment, the constant rain outside and the deliberately washed-out photography make any colour, such as the yellow coat, seem incongruous and unsettling. Nakata also clears the film of unnecessary characters--this is an almost deserted Tokyo--preferring to concentrate the action on Yoshimi's rising hysteria as she struggles to understand what is happening and how to save her daughter. Granted, the special effects are somewhat unconvincing and the ending confused, but even so the result is a stylish and disquieting chiller that will do for bathtubs what Ring did for video recorders. --Kristen Bowditch
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The story centres around a mother struggling to make a new life for herself and her daughter amidst a messy divorce. The strangeness begins when they move to a new part of the city, a new school and a new apartment with a perpetually leaky ceiling! I won't give any more of the story away than that, suffice to say I couldn't walk past so much as a puddle after viewing it without wanting to run screaming down dark ill advised alleyways.
If you enjoyed Ring you most certainly won't be disappointed by this. A definite must.
This is not as good as Audition, but that is a hard benchmark to achieveall the time, however, it is an extremely intelligent and watchable (frombehind the door perhaps) film.
A ghost story about a mother, going through the throws of a bitterdivorce, and her young girl; they move into a slightly run-down apartment,which seems to have problems with its plumbing.
The ceiling starts to leak from the apartment above and gradually getsworse.
The whole problem seems to be coming from a watertank on the roof of theapartment block, where it seems that tragically a young girl, some whileback had drowned in. The girl was wearing a yellow ran coat and haddropped her red back pack, whilst climbing up the ladder of the tank.
These instances are cleverly and somewhat menaceingly intertwined into anotherwise fairly mundane storyline.
The ending is scary and sad and leaves the viewer with lots of unansweredquestions, which I am sure the director manufactured deliberately.
The camera movement, angles and work generally create a creepy feel tothis movie as does the desertedness of the Tokyo environment, the acrimonybetween the wife and husband and the yellow coat against the dullness ofcolour in general.
I reccommend this movie...
i've noticed since, with films such as Ring (and the sequal and prequal)that the Japanese generally do horror VERY differently to the west...nowhere is it more apparrent than this masterpiece.
where western horror movies rely on "orgasm entertainment" and in-your-face frights, Dark Water builds the tension very slowly, with the ominous reappearing figure, the schoolbag, and the water tank, all building a tense, confused apprehension throughout the film, and the last 30-40 minutes are probably the most terrifying i've ever seen. ever.
if you like the edge of your seat to be well-worn and slightly stained, this movie is DEFINATELY for you.
i would reccomend to to anyone, especially people who "don't like horror movies"
they've remade it in American now. Taking the disgusting slop that was "The Ring" i'm not going to waste my time with it.
sacreliege, if you ask me!
I think this is a wonderful movie that has a 'feel' akin to Del Toro's The Orphanage. Read more
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