Tagline: Dark water conceals darker secrets.
Nothing is more terrifying than to realize your home, your family, your neighborhood, the very walls and ceilings that surround you have turned against you. When there is no safety to be found in what is supposed to be the very safest of places, the deepest form of psychological fear abounds.
This theme has wended its way through some of the most unsettling and sophisticated horror-thrillers in movie history. From the kindly-seeming next-door neighbors secretly practicing satanic rituals in “Rosemary’s Baby” to the idyllic retreat which dissolves into family madness in “The Shining” to the lonely little boy who finds apparitions of the dead in urban hallways in “The Sixth Sense”-the idea of “home sweet home” becoming unbearably haunted has long fired the artistic imagination.
Now, Dark Water continues in this classic tradition of smart, stylish, emotionally charged and thought-provoking terror driven by the complex performances of a highly accomplished cast of actors.
Based on a story by the author of the horror classic “The Ring,” Dark Water approaches modern domestic anxiety from an original angle: that of a devoted mother who will go to unimaginable lengths to protect her daughter from an apartment that threatens to literally unleash a torrent of fury.
Production notes provided by Touchstone Pictures.
Dark Water
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite
Directed by: Walter Salles
Screenplay by: Rafael Yglesias
Release Date: July 8th, 2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material, frightening sequences, disturbing images and brief language.
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $25,473,352 (51.5%)
Foreign: $24,010,000 (48.5%)
Total: $49,483,352 (Worldwide)