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  • Actors: Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Dougray Scott, Ariel Gade
  • Directors: Walter Salles
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Danish, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Nov 2005
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000ANDA90
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,564 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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DVD Description
From Hideo Nakata, director of 'Ring', comes this brooding and unsettling masterpiece of horror cinema. In the midst of a custody battle, Yoshimi and her beloved 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment. Once there, the discovery of a schoolbag left behind by a mysterious young girl, along with the appearance of damp patches on the ceiling and walls begins to haunt them as rumours circulate of a little girl who disappeared from the apartment above...

From the studio
• Beneath The Surface: The Stories Of Dark Water

• The Sound Of Terror

• Extraordinary Ensemble

• Deleted Scenes

• Analysing Dark Water Sequences

• Interactive Bathroom Scene

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Is that it??, 5 Jan 2006
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That's what I was left thinking at the end of this film - 'Is that IT?' I hadn't seen it when it was in the cinema, so I was waiting, with great anticipation for it to come out on DVD! Jennifer Connely is wasted in this film. Her performance is excellent and most of the other characters are well-acted too, but there's only so much they could do with the awful script and poor storyline. I loved the 'Ring' and was expecting something just as un-nerving, but it just never got started! There's so much scope with a story like this, but every chance to scare the pants off the viewer was thrown away. You could see the 'scary' sequences coming a mile off and by the time it got to the end, I was left wondering whether I'd just been watching all the 'deleted scenes' by mistake! My advice would be - don't bother.
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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Step away from the bath!, 11 Oct 2006
By S. Finlay "sgscf" (UK) - See all my reviews
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I had despaired of ever seeing a decent remake of a J-Horror film. They always rush the story, put in too many effects and add a happy ending. 'Dark Water' is the best of the bunch by a long way. Connolly is allowed the space to expand into the role of the distraught mother and Ariel Gade is exceptional as the little girl lost. None of the parts are overplayed and the camera work is perfect. It owes a lot to the original but manages to westernise it to make it more palatable for the uninitiated fan. Four stars simply because the original is better.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars SLOW BUT AN OK ENTRY, 6 Aug 2007
By stuart "s.vernon" (MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND) - See all my reviews
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Trying to start a new life together, Dahlia, (Jennifer Connelly) and her daughter Ceci, (Ariel Gade) move from their old house in New York City to a new, smaller apartment. As they're attempting to adapt to the new surroundings, Dahlia begins to have strange experiences and visions in the building, which building manager Mr. Murray, (John C. Reilly) only assures her that happens to everyone. When the visions change to feature strange water events in her apartment, she begins to delve into the history of the building and determines to find a way to stop the aura surrounding the building that's targeting both her and her daughter.

The Good News: There was a couple things right about the film. Just like in the original, the location looks impressively gray and depressing. All of this is brought on by the claustrophobic apartment house, the constant dripping, and the incessant rain. What it does better than the original is that this version more effectively suggests Dahlia's fraying sanity amidst the situation, even leaving us frequently believing that she could be imagining it all. Several key scenes make it quite likely. The best is the sequence where, through the surveillance camera on the elevator, there seems to be someone holding an invisible child's hand. A couple of the quick shots of a head passing by in the window are just as creepy, and several attacks near the end are also worthy of mention. This remake is surprisingly faithful to the Japanese version and follows the original story closely on almost all plot points.

The Bad News: There are a couple problems with the film, and the most prominent issue was the pacing. Some are going to be sucked into it right from the opening while others will find it to drag on, and on and on. It's not scary in the slightest, and as an experiment in terror it fails miserably. The atmosphere that could've been drudges up from the images presented could've been great. It makes the average household item or object into something dreadful, but there's hardly anything there to imply that it wants to follow up on it. That brings up the second major problem: it's not all that much of a horror film and is instead a family drama. The horror elements are pushed so far to the background for the family interplay that it feels more at home in the family aisle than in the horror section. It drags out the film, doesn't feel like it belongs in the film and is really unnecessary.

The Final Verdict: Slow and pandering but it looks good when it works. Doesn't really do much to update the flawed original, but it at least gets what the original got right. It's a decision call as to which one is the version to see, as there's not a lot of difference between them.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A BIT BORING

This film is a bit creepy but it drags on and does not really go anywhere
Published 2 months ago by A. Girvan

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark water, dark story...
Ok, it's a modern ghost story about a little girl who was abandoned, drowned, in a New York apartment block, and returns to haunt the new tenants. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Es Fredenburgh

4.0 out of 5 stars Subtle
I thought this was actually pretty good,no I haven't seen the Japanese original,I have seen both versions of The Grudge though and I was pleasantly surprised by that(the American... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. M. L. Hanford

4.0 out of 5 stars jennifer saves the movie
Jennifer connely is an amazing actress, and the fact that she's the most beatiful woman on the planet makes looking at her perfomances even more enjoyable. Read more
Published 12 months ago by micheal zeeland

5.0 out of 5 stars Anathema to say so in some quarters, but I preferred this to the original!
I loved the original of "Dark Water" and expected to be disappointed by this, as in the terrible remake of "Ring", but I was very pleasantly surprised to find this was a most... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Music lover.

3.0 out of 5 stars good remake but .....
I have seen the original and although I preferred that, this is pretty good. What I didnt like was the poor quality of the print. Read more
Published 16 months ago by pompeyman

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and Haunting
I don't usually like the remakes of films as I think they strip from a film what is really pure about it, but this is one remake I can actually very much sit and enjoy (and have... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Dismal Angel

3.0 out of 5 stars Another Horror Flick Takes A Nosedive
This is a remake of a classic Japanese horror flick released two years previously. "Dark Water" stars Jennifer Connelly in one of her best acting roles also superb are Ariel Grade... Read more
Published 20 months ago by DJColzz

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good
Good solid acting and a growing sense of menace make this a very watchable film. If you are not sure based on the number of negative reviews, give it a go you might just enjoy it.
Published on 25 Jun 2007 by Charles Gosling

4.0 out of 5 stars Touching Ghost Story
Faithful remake of Hideo Nakata's J- Horror original is to my mind the better film.A separated mother and her young daughter move into a dingy apartment on the forbidding... Read more
Published on 9 April 2007 by Mark Pearce

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