2005 · horror · mystery · supernatural
Dark Water
Directed by Walter Salles1h 45m2005
Dahlia and her five-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment — dilapidated and worn — suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water and other strange happenings send Dahlia on a haunting and mystifying pursuit — one that unleashes a torrent of living nightmares.
Our read: Dark Water (2005) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · mystery · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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