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Dark Water

2002 · 101 min

A slow, damp dread seeps through a mother's fraying life, mixing quiet supernatural menace with raw parental anxiety.

Tagline
Don't let the water reach you.
Overview
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • isolation
  • grief
  • family
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror7
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
horror, mystery, thriller
Directed by
Hideo Nakata
Written by
Kenichi Suzuki, Hideo Nakata, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Takashige Ichise
Starring
Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yuu Tokui, Isao Yatsu, Shigemitsu Ogi
Music
Kenji Kawai
Cinematography
Junichiro Hayashi
Runtime
101 min
Country
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Languages
Japanese

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