Fresh from his Oscar-nominated "The Motorcycle Diaries," acclaimed director Walter Salles takes the horror movie plunge with "Dark Water," a psychological thriller with the accent truly on the psychological. With his stirring visual sense very much intact here, Salles sets the creepy mood eloquently, but the picture -- based on the Japanese film by Hideo Nakata and a short story by Koji Suzuki, both of "The Ring" fame -- ultimately fails to reward all the little shivers with any satisfying jolts. There's no shortage of icky atmosphere in the picture's setup, with newly divorced mom Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) and her young daughter, Ceci (Ariel Gade), renting a depressing apartment in a sprawling block of bleak concrete monoliths on bleaker Roosevelt Island.

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