Dark Water (2005)
I have not seen the original, but the Walter Salles remake is an emotionally devastating character study that gets under the skin because the characters earn our sympathy. This too features a fantastic cast, with such pros as Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite, and Camryn Manheim grounding this spook story in a reality that is as frightening as any ghost. The story revolves around Dahlia (Connelly), who rents a somewhat slummy apartment after winning custody of her young daughter in a bitter divorce. Soon the apartment begins to suffer inexplicable water damage, along with the usual ghostly visions and sounds. Is the apartment haunted? Is her ex-husband trying to scare her into taking action that would help him regain parental rights? Or is Dahlia’s family history of mental illness finally catching up to her? All three seem equally plausible and equally frightening possibilities, and that’s not even counting the teens outside her complex who always seem to be watching and leering. The film works because Salles makes the everyday world of a working-poor single mother every bit as frightening and exhausting as dealing with the supernatural.
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Phenomena
Starring Jennifer Connelly and Donald Pleasance. Directed by Dario Argento.
Phenomena pretty much represents Argento at his most insane, but still rather brilliant. The movie stars a very young Jennifer Connelly as Jennifer Corvino, a young telepathic girl who keeps witnessing murders in her dreams as she sleepwalks. Being helped by a local scientist, played by Donald Pleasance, the situation seems to be getting worse as the murders intensify, and other telepathic abilities manifest in the young girl. This all leads up to a bugnuts crazy climax involving a monster, a chimp and thousands of a insects, making Phenomena about as mad a horror film as they come.
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