Zwart Water (2010)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Duration: 112 minuten
Alternative title: Two Eyes Staring
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Elbert van Strien
Stars: Hadewych Minis, Barry Atsma and Isabelle Stokkel
IMDb score:
5,5 (1.489)
Releasedate: 11 March 2010
Zwart Water plot
Psychological thriller about a Dutch family that moves to Belgium after mother Christine (Hadewych Minis) has inherited her parental home. Nine-year-old daughter Lisa (Isabelle Stockel) discovers a strange and sinister girl, Karen, in the basement of the house. Karen (Charlotte Arnoldy) tells her she is Lisa's mother's dead twin sister, and claims to know a horrifying secret of hers. When Lisa's father Paul (Barry Atsma) also discovers that his wife's past is shadowy, it has major consequences...
Actors and actresses
Christine
Paul
Lisa
Karen
Juf Bongaerts
Geert
Karen (voice)
Rijkswachter
Psychiater
Reviews & comments
Ebenezer Scrooge
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- 2150 messages
- 3092 votes
Nice try. The well-known horror clichés are not out of the air: a large dilapidated house, blood from the tap, mirrors, a dark cellar, a pale girl in a Victorian dress with a hanging head.. Barry Atsma irritated me immensely again, constantly that mocking smile and that quasi-tough/nonchalant macho attitude, against the aggressive. To an older colleague, hitting him on the back: 'Nice work, old man!, or to his daughter: 'You know very well what I mean!' That annoying voice of Kruidvat, Hadelwytch, does nothing. The music is way too dramatic for a horror movie. The blue scooter that Atsma always races around on is much too small, looks like a children's scooter. The Belgians are portrayed as nasty, nasty people. The old factory and the grounds around it look impressive and beautifully desolate. We don't have that in the Netherlands (anymore). Here it would have long since collapsed or transformed into some hip cultural center for the elite.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6070 messages
- 2476 votes
Carefully made, with a good eye (and ear) for decor, atmosphere and soundtrack, and with nice performances by the two parents; besides, the final punch line is quite surprising, because while Karen's motivation seemed pretty clear, something is revealed at the end that I didn't see coming. Unfortunately, the rest of the film offers little new in terms of setting and ghost, and besides, Isabelle Stockel as Lisa can look very introverted, but actually she does nothing other than that throughout the film, which makes it seem as if she was already living in a universe of her own before the move. That creates a certain monotony and takes the sting out of the film a bit.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
A month after her mother's death, Christine [Hadewych Minis] is only notified of her death and of the fact that she now owns a stately country house in Flanders. Husband Paul [Barry Atsma] sees this as an excellent opportunity to change their personal and professional lives for the better and so Christine and Paul move to Belgium with their daughter Lisa [Isabelle Stockel]. When Lisa indicates that strange things are happening and that a mysterious girl is walking through the house, her parents do not take this seriously at first. Of course there appears to be something going on and that is related to a long-hidden family secret. There is nothing original about the story but Van Strien manages to create an oppressive atmosphere with the help of the ominous camerawork by Guido van Gennip, excellent sound effects (conducted by Aline Bruijn) and a ditto score by Han Otten. Stockel holds its own impressively and Minis knows how to scare you at least once.
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