Okay, sneer if you like. But I love Salles's elegant makeover of Hideo Nakata's sodden chiller for bucking several Hollywood trends at once. Remakes of zingy, nasty Japanese genre successes have been a staple in Hollywood for years now, but Salles, the Brazilian director of tasteful, sentiment-driven arthouse hits "Central Station" and "The Motorcycle Diaries" was about the last name you'd expect to helm one, much less for his first US feature. Disaster beckoned, but lo and behold, Salles's solemn, serene but terrifically scary "Dark Water" was an improvement on the original -- and, with weird irony, a more respectful appropriation of a Nakata property than Nakata's own "The Ring Two" the same year. (It also features Jennifer Connelly's best performance, in case you were interested.)