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Dark Water
2002
· Movie
· 101 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3518
- IMDb #3005
- Rotten Tomatoes #2054
- Metacritic #3902
- Letterboxd #2252
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2931
+6 more
- Metacritic Critics #3201
- Metacritic Audience #4468
- Criticker #2026
- Kinopoisk #3690
- AlloCiné #2602
- Trakt #3369
Every rating
46–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 46, highest is Google on 76. Critics average 52, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A mother and her young daughter move into a dilapidated apartment building. They are soon plagued by a persistent water leak from the floor above and the appearance of a child's Hello Kitty backpack. The mother begins to suspect these disturbances are connected to the disappearance of a young girl who once lived in the building, and that her own daughter is in danger.
Details
- Director
- Hideo Nakata
- Based on
- Dark Water by Kōji Suzuki
- Released
- 19 January 2002
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $1.7M
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