Dark Water (2005)

Dark Water

Credits
Title:	Dark Water
Directed by:	Walter Salles
Written by:	Rafael Yglesias
Produced by:	Ashley Kramer; Olívia Guimarães; Roy Lee; Bill Mechanic; Doug Davison; Diana Pokorny
Based on:	Honogurai mizu no soko kara
Music by:	Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography:	Affonso Beato
Edited by:	Daniel Rezende
Production
Production:	Touchstone Pictures Pandemonium Productions Vertigo Entertainment
Distributors:	Buena Vista International
Released:	June 27th, 2005
Rating:	PG-13
Running time:	105 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Dark Water is an American feature film of the supernatural thriller and ghost subgenres of horror. It is a remake of the Japanese film Dark Water by director Hideo Nakata. This film was directed by Walter Salles with a screenplay written by Rafael Yglesias. It was presented by Touchstone Pictures and produced by Pandemonium Productions and Vertigo Entertainment. It premiered in New York City, New York on June 27th, 2005. It opened to National release in the United States on July 8th, 2005. The film stars Jennifer Connelly as Dahlia Williams with John C. Reilly as Cory Murray, and Tim Roth as Jeff Platzer.

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Cast[]

Actor

Role

Dahlia Williams

Cory Murray

Jeff Platzer

Kyle

Veeck

Teacher

Ceci Williams

Natasha Rimsky

Young Dahlia's teacher

Mediator

Mediator

Man in train

Dahlia's mother

UPS man

Supervisor

Man in elevator

Teacher's aide

Mary

Night doorman

Natasha's mother

Platzer's client

Steve

Billy

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline to this film is "Some mysteries were never meant to be solved". Another tagline is "This season, the mystery of the darkness will consume your life".
There are a total of twenty-three credited cast members in this film.
Filming on Dark Water began on January 20th, 2004.
This movie was filmed primarily on Roosevelt Island in New York City, New York, with some scenes being filmed at Syosset High School in Long Island, as well as the Chandler Valley Center Studios in Panorama City, California.
Dark Water grossed $25,473,352 at the Domestic box office with an additional $42,883,727 internationally. It grossed $68,357,079 worldwide.
Dark Water came in at number 3 at the box office during its July 8th, opening. It was beat out by Fantastic Four, which premiered that week at number 1, as well as War of the Worlds at number 2, which had been out for ten days.
Dark Water was released on Blu-ray by Buena Vista Home Entertainment on October 17th, 2006.
Actor Craig muMs Grant, who plays Jeff Platzer's client, is credited as just muMs in this film.
Actor Matthew Lemche, who plays Steve, is credited as Matt Lemche in this film.
As of 2023, Dark Water has a star meter rating of 5.6 out of 10 on the Internet Movie Database based on more than 64,000 user votes.
On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Dark Water holds a Tomatometer rating of 47% based on 153 approved critic reviews. It has 72 positive reviews and 81 negative reviews, averaging 5.60 out of 10. It has an audience score of 28%, averaging 2.7 out of 5 based on more than 100,000 ratings.
On Metacritic, Dark Water has a Metascore of 52 out of 100 based on thirty-five critic reviews. It has 15 positive reviews, 5 negative reviews, and 15 mixed reviews.
On Letterboxd, Dark Water has a weighted average of 2.68 out of 5 based on 14,787 ratings.
This is director Walter Salles' first work in the horror genre.
Screenplay writer Rafael Yglesias is also known for writing the screenplay for the 2001 Jack the Ripper story From Hell.
This is Jennifer Connelly's second work as the lead role in a horror film. She previously played psychic Jennifer Corvino in Dario Argento's Phenomena in 1985.
Actress Ariel Gade will go on to play the role of Molly in the 2007 sci-fi/horror movie Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.

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