SYNOPSIS:

A woman in the midst of a divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-horror classic Ring and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water, another highly atmospheric, and critically acclaimed, tale of the supernatural which took the common theme of the "dead wet girl" to new heights of suspense and drama. Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, Dark Water follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well. Beautifully shot by the same cinematographer as Ring and Pulse, and featuring an especially unnerving sound design, Dark Water successfully merges spine-tingling tension with a family's heart-wrenching emotional struggle, creating one of the very finest and most unsettling contemporary Japanese horror films.

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THE RT SCORES:

DARK WATER has the following scores: 

• Audience Score: 65% 

• Critical Score: 83% 

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REASONS TO WATCH: 

"...the real horror in Dark Water has nothing to do with the ghost, and everything to do with losing one’s own parent or child." - The Cinephile Fix

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"Its cleverness relies on transferring our concern from the supernatural events emanating from one lost child to the natural fear of a mother losing her own child to the other world." - London Evening Standard

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"It checks all the boxes in my opinion." - SpookyAstronauts

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THE BONUS FEATURES:​​

• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)

• Original lossless 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio

• Optional English subtitles

• Ghosts, Rings and Water – interview with director Hideo Nakata

• Family Terrors – interview with author Koji Suzuki

• Visualizing Horror – interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi

• Archive interviews with actresses Hitomi Kuroki and Asami Mizukawa, and theme song artist Shikao Suga

• Original ‘making-of’ documentary

• Trailers and TV spots

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain

• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by David Kalat and Michael Gingold