Same creator who wrote Ringu (Ring) and Uzumaki (Spiral). Whoever watch Ringu, Uzumaki or Ju-Oh will like 'Dark Water'. It is soooo creeepy, my date held me so tight all the way during watching that movie. Let me quote Insight's review:
Dark Water worked on me rather like the seeping stain on the ceiling of the main character's bedroom. Its menace crept up … and kept creeping. It seemed like a movie that shouldn't have scared me, but somehow it did. I'm still not sure I understand why.
Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) is a recently divorced woman with a five-year-old daughter, Ikuko (Rio Kanno). She's fighting a custody battle with her ex-husband (Fumiyo Kohinata) and, in an attempt to get her life back together, rents a flat in an apartment building that has seen better days.
The rain is relentless, the flat leaks incessantly and the tap water has human hair floating in it. But creepier still is the spectre of a missing girl from the flat upstairs whom Yoshima sees luring her daughter into danger.
Those more erudite than me say director Hideo Nakata's Ringu (based like Dark Water on a novel by Japanese horror master Kôji Suzuki) was more sinister and more compelling. They also say Dark Water revisits Nakata's themes of single motherhood and children during crisis.
Both Ringu and Dark Water have been remade by Hollywood (The Ring starred Naomi Watts and Dark Water will star Jennifer Connelly). I'm interested in reading Suzuki's books -- just to see if they can help me understand why Dark Water so unexpectedly gave me the creeps.
Hollywood will release Kôji Suzuki's Dark Water at theaters in 2005 but the original japanese DVD (with subtitled, of course) will come out soon or... you can download it off from internet (that's what I did). What are you waiting for? Go, go, go and download or buy when it comes out.
Screenshots:
Edit: Aw, they tweaked the root server to block the hotlinks, go and take a look at: http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/darkwater.htm and you can read their review to get more picture but it contains the spoilers so.. up to you.
Dark Water worked on me rather like the seeping stain on the ceiling of the main character's bedroom. Its menace crept up … and kept creeping. It seemed like a movie that shouldn't have scared me, but somehow it did. I'm still not sure I understand why.
Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) is a recently divorced woman with a five-year-old daughter, Ikuko (Rio Kanno). She's fighting a custody battle with her ex-husband (Fumiyo Kohinata) and, in an attempt to get her life back together, rents a flat in an apartment building that has seen better days.
The rain is relentless, the flat leaks incessantly and the tap water has human hair floating in it. But creepier still is the spectre of a missing girl from the flat upstairs whom Yoshima sees luring her daughter into danger.
Those more erudite than me say director Hideo Nakata's Ringu (based like Dark Water on a novel by Japanese horror master Kôji Suzuki) was more sinister and more compelling. They also say Dark Water revisits Nakata's themes of single motherhood and children during crisis.
Both Ringu and Dark Water have been remade by Hollywood (The Ring starred Naomi Watts and Dark Water will star Jennifer Connelly). I'm interested in reading Suzuki's books -- just to see if they can help me understand why Dark Water so unexpectedly gave me the creeps.
Hollywood will release Kôji Suzuki's Dark Water at theaters in 2005 but the original japanese DVD (with subtitled, of course) will come out soon or... you can download it off from internet (that's what I did). What are you waiting for? Go, go, go and download or buy when it comes out.
Screenshots:
Edit: Aw, they tweaked the root server to block the hotlinks, go and take a look at: http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/darkwater.htm and you can read their review to get more picture but it contains the spoilers so.. up to you.
