Dark Water (2005)
The gore-free Dark Water tries hard to establish a creepy atmosphere, but instead winds up being slow moving with not much happening.
Review by : James O'Ehley
Jennifer just knew the plumber's bill was going to be a whopper . . .
Jennifer Connolly is a recently divorced single-parent who moves into a crummy apartment with a serious plumbing problem. In this movie's version of New York , it is raining constantly and Connolly's roof is always leaking and there are scuffling sounds from the apartment right above her's.
Sounds like somewhere you might have lived at one point? Maybe, but the apartment right above Connolly's is actually empty and it soon becomes apparent that she needs an exorcist and not a plumber since the building is haunted by the spirit of a dead six-year-old girl who was abandoned by her neglectful emigrant parents . . .
Like The Grudge and the two The Ring movies, Dark Water is a remake of a Japanese horror movie. However, while the gore-free Dark Water tries hard to establish a creepy atmosphere, the film instead winds up being slow moving with not much happening. Sure, there are one or two effective creepy scenes and the acting is top notch, but the truth is that most audiences will simply be too distracted by the film's somnambulant pace to notice.
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