I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations, and how they impact our viewing of a film. Dark Water, the other Hideo Nakata horror film (Ringu being the first) was a film I knew a lot about, but always held off for one reason or another, thinking there would be time and when I did get to it, I would love it. Well, thanks to the stunning 4K transfer from Arrow Video I did finally get around to it, and while I didn’t love it, it was very surprising, as the horror is a distant second to a rather pointed narrative about divorce, children, and their parents. Looks great, sounds fantastic…just not even remotely scary save for one scene we’ll get into that sadly breaks the tension with a laughable punctuation that I’m sure was NOT Nakata’s intention.

Cinema Dual (TEST SITE)

Examining a life through the media we consume. In other words, I’m reviewing all of my physical music media in alphabetical order, one day at at a time. Except when I don’t, as has been the case for the past few years. Still, we march onwards…Coffee essential, but not mandatory

Tag: dark water

Hooptober 11.0 – Dark Water (2002)