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Hush little baby

See, hear, and feel the excitement with Blu-ray high definition. less DARK WATER concerns a young woman named Dahlia Williams Jennifer Connelly who is going through a messy custody hush little baby with her husband over their daughter, Cecelia. With little hush little baby on hand, they move into the creepiest apartment building they can afford on Roosevelt Island in New York. It is a dank, depressing place, but they don t have much choice. At least the school nearby is highly regarded. Before long, they begin to experience plumbing problems, presumably from the apartment above them. Evil-looking stains appear on the ceiling and grow. Dahlia can t make any headway with the evasive landlord or maintenance man. Then there s the mysterious whispering, and her daughter has seemingly made an imaginary friend who tells her things about her mother that she couldn t possibly know. DARK WATER, like THE RING, is a remake of a Japanese film by Hideo Nakata and based on a story by Koji Suzuki. Unlike THE RING or THE GRUDGE, the other big horror import of the last few years, this version fails to improve on or even equal the quality or effectiveness of the original film. The story hasn t changed, but all the frightening or even creepy moments I remember from Nakata s film are absent. There is no build-up or tension. This film is sorry severely watered down. Moreover, audiences unaware that this is a remake of a film from 2002 are likely to find it too similar to THE RING TWO which was also directed by Nakata, but which was not a remake of the Japanese RING 2 and think it derivative, when in fact it s the other way around. If I hadn t seen the Japanese original, I d probably have a much higher opinion of this one. The performances are great. It s an okay movie, as it stands, but much was lost in the translation. The ever reliable Jennifer Connelly gives another very convincing performance in this atmospheric film. The supporting cast is perfect and believable. The direction is clever and well-paced, but not heavy-handed for this genre. The scriptwriters created terrific characters and believable plot twists in this very suspenseful and eerie film.