Dark Water (2002): Nakata's Damp, Patient Terror

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The scariest object in Dark Water is a stain on a ceiling. It starts small, a dark bloom in the corner of a rented flat, and it grows — spreading, darkening, dripping — across a film that understands damp the way other horror understands blood. Hideo Nakata, four years after he changed the genre with Ringu, made a ghost story out of water, exhaustion, and the particular terror of a mother who cannot afford to fall apart, and the result is one of the most emotionally devastating horror films ever made under the label of J-horror.

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Dark Water (2002): Nakata's Damp, Patient Terror