Found myself watching this last night, having really enjoyed the Japanese Original when it came out. Why is it that American audiences have to have these films re-made for them, is it because they don't like reading sub-titles or because they don't feel able to empathise with characters who aren't American? Without wishing to sound anti-American (which I am not) doesn't an unwillingness to ingest non American cinema lead to an insularity...which can't be healthy either culturally or politically. Having said that this a reasonable re-make...but why bother when the original is so good. Remaking classic films, whether two years after the event or sixty usually results in an inferior product. So often now films are remade either because the originals were foreign with subtitles or because the originals have presumably dated visually (e.g Superman...or Dawn of the Dead)
Review of Dark Water
