Never mind the evil spirit that haunts Jennifer Connelly in the eerily effective "Dark Water." What this movie really gets right is that there are few places scarier than a run-down New York City apartment with hair dripping out of the faucet. Anyone who has lived in an old house or apartment knows that it can be unnerving just listening to the strange sounds the place makes. Who knows what those noises really are? Read the full review
Dahlia Williams is determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her 5-year-old daughter Ceci. But mysterious noises from the empty apartment upstairs and a persistent leak of dark water in the bedroom ceiling make her imagination run wild.
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite
Run time: 105 minutes
Release date: July 8, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material, frightening sequences, disturbing images and brief language.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B-
"As much a psychological drama as it is a ghost story. The two mix and mingle till, in a big splash of water, they become one."
Middletown Journal: B+
"... chillingly sets a mood of unease and uncertainty."
The Palm Beach Post: C
"There are direct similarities between The Ring and Dark Water. Both deal with the effects of emotional scars, the potential death of a young child and links with ghostly apparitions. Oh, and they both want to scare the heck out of us."
