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DVD : Dark Water [Blu-ray]In association with Amazon.comstarring: Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott directed by: Walter Salles ![: Dark Water [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fD8qh2YxL._SL160_.jpg) List Price: $34.99 Amazon.com's Price: $19.99 You Save: $15.00 (43%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: Blu-ray Brand: Touchstone EAN: 0786936718843 Format: Color Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 17, 2006 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Sales Rank: 39500 MPN: DISBR52755 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: The terror of DARK WATER reaches new heights on Blu-ray disc. Starring acclaimed actress Jennifer Connelly, the film "Rolling Stone" calls "a torrent of suspense" is a visual and auditory wonder in this revolutionary high-definition format. Life becomes a living nightmare for Dahlia Williams and her daughter when their new apartment begins to take on a life of its own. Experience every heart-stopping moment in razor-sharp 1080p, and feel the grip of every blood-curdling scream delivered in 5.1 48 kHz, 16-bit uncompressed audio. See, hear, and feel the excitement with Blu-ray high definition. Amazon.com: In many ways Dark Water improves upon the memorable Japanese film it's based on. The earlier version was directed by Hideo Nakata (whose excellent shocker Ringu was remade in America as The Ring), but in the hands of director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) and screenwriter Rafael Yglesias, this psychological horror story gets an intelligent and more chillingly effective overhaul. The story is rooted in themes of love and loss that Yglesias similarly explored in his excellent screenplay for Peter Weir's Fearless, here focusing on young mother Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) as she endures difficult divorce proceedings and settles into a low-rent apartment in New York's cramped Roosevelt Island community, near Manhattan, with her young daughter Cecilia (Ariel Gade). Amidst seemingly endless rainfall, Dahlia's world slowly unravels, and Connelly is superb as a woman seemingly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or is she? Could it be that Cecilia's imaginary friend, and the apartment's persistent leaks of dark, dripping water, are the ghostly manifestations of a young girl who had been abandoned by the previous tenant? Creepy atmosphere and high anxiety are expertly maintained by Salles, and supporting roles for Tim Roth, John C. Reilly and especially Pete Postlethwaite give the film an added edge of mystery. The tension builds slowly (gore-mongers and action fans may be disappointed), but the cumulative effect is palpably unnerving, inviting favorable comparison to Rosemary's Baby. Unlike some other remakes of Japanese horror hits, Dark Water doesn't feel redundant; it stands on its own thanks to the impressive work of everyone involved. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Hydro-Phobia...My main reason for watching DARK WATER was the presence of the amazing Jennifer Connelly (Labyrinth, Phenomena, Dark City, Requiem For A Dream). She has a beauty and innocence that I find captivating. As Dahlia Williams, Ms. Connelly has this same charming quality, while going through a living hell. Dahlia is being assaulted on three separate levels. She is haunted by the terrible memories of her childhood, dogged by the insanity of her current, ugly divorce, and plagued by the ghostly happenings ... Read More Rating:  - The beginning of the end for After seeing the excellent "Ring" and "Grudge" movies, I was so psyched to see Dark Water. How could they go wrong with this new and exciting wave of horror, especially with Jennifer Connelly in it? The work she did in A Beautiful Mind was brilliant, so I was eager to see what she would bring to this movie. Dark Water turned out to be an unfortunate misstep for Ms. Connelly. The movie has so many problems.............. This really was the first "J" horror bomb and you ... Read More Rating: - Anti-climatic Wash-upDark Water is great at manufacturing tension using a contemporary project (apartment) complex as the source of shadows, dim and yellow light, strange noises, and black-colored water. The tension is level almost from the beginning of the movie until the end, and rarely is there a scary moment to break it. Even the comic relief of the daughter is unintentional as she plays with her toys in the bathtub -- although she steals this scene, it is due to her personality, not the script. This film ... Read More Rating:  - 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 excellent movie and better than the original, in that this one didn't leave in what seemed like unnecessary parts, which in the original seemed to drag in places, whereas this one never seemed to lose its atmosphere but continued on with its slow building feeling of dread. The original film seemed to include too much more going on, ... Read More Rating: - Could rival Stephen KingThe strength of Steven King is being keeping his creepiness on the edge of what can be real or normal. This story, a remake of the Japanese film by Hideo Nakata and based on "Honogurai Soko Kara" by Koji Suzuki is one of those that are just on the edge of real. Probably mentally challenged Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) is in the middle of a nasty divorce and due to economics is moving with her daughter `Ceci' (Ariel Gade) to a creepy slum tenement. Her daughter is also going a little ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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