Director Walter Salles ( Motorcycle Diaries) tackles the remake of a Japanese
horror movie by Hideo Nakata ( The Ring).
It's the story of a woman in the throes of a marriage break-up, searching for
a place where she and her young daughter can live. They move into a dingy New
York apartment that has a stain on the ceiling and before long, discover secrets
and terrors that seem to be part of the fabric of the building. These, it seems,
also have a good deal to do with repressed elements of the woman's past.
Nakata began his movie in a matter-of-fact way and let the horrors accumulate
gradually but Salles goes more rapidly into creepy, threatening, shock-horror
mode and the film suffers for it.
But there are still powerful elements, particularly the performance of
Jennifer Connelly as the overwrought mother, haunted by her childhood
abandonment. Ariel Garde, as her daughter, and Tim Roth, as her enigmatic
lawyer, give strong support.
Jennifer Connelly rescues her portrait of the plumber
.
Genre
Horror
Run Time 105
minutes
Rated
M
Country United
States
Year
205
Director Walter
Salles
Actors Jennifer
Connelly , Dougray Scott, Ariel Gade, John C. Reilly
DVD
Release 15 February 2006
DVD
Extras Featurettes, deleted
scenes.