Dark Water
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: July 8, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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15
Mixed:
15
Negative:
5
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30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Wildly overproduced and filled with fussy flourishes that make even a derelict hallway look like a million bucks, Dark Water fails to rustle up either meaning or meaningful scares. Read full review
30
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Dark Water isn't a bad horror movie, simply because it isn’t horror at all: a full hour passes before anything remotely scary occurs, and all the suspenseful scenes take place in the final ten minutes (and are all fully shown in the trailer). What's left is tedium and a seemingly endless build-up to nothing much at all, making it a bad movie. Period. Read full review
30
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Dark, dank, damp, grim, dingy and dour, Dark Water is a tasteful but unremitting bummer. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Stripped of every major scary moment and restructured in what feels like a deliberate attempt to remove all suspense, this "horror" movie is now a domestic soap opera. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The overall emotion the film generates is one of moist, enervated ennui. Who cares if the apartment is haunted when the best the ghost can do is get things a bit damp and run laps on the floor above? Read full review
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