The Melancholy of Maintenance: Revisiting Dark Water (2005) When Hollywood went through its J-horror remake fever in the mid-2000s, most directors leaned into the "shriek" factor. They wanted the next long-haired ghost girl to crawl out of a screen and make audiences jump. But Walter Salles’s —a remake of Hideo Nakata’s 2002 Japanese original—chose a different, murkier path. It isn’t a movie that wants to scare you so much as it wants to make you feel the damp, cold weight of a crumbling life. A Masterclass in Urban Decay
Set against the bleak, Brutalist backdrop of , the film uses its location as a character. While the rest of New York City feels a tram-ride away, Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) and her young daughter Ceci (Ariel Gade) are trapped in a "sickeningly moist" apartment building that seems to be rotting from the inside out. Dark Water (2005)
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