'No-one Lives in the Room Above'


What I have just seen has utterly freaked me out. I have written a series of short ghost stories set in the fictional town of Shackleton (I’m setting the web site up to have them published for all to read). One of the stories (its title mentioned in the "subject" title) is very similar to this film... and I have never watched Dark Water previously NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER WATCHED IT, until recently. I am DEADLY SERIOUS HERE PEOPLE.

The Story that I wrote revolves around a man (instead of a woman) who has bought an apartment after a messy divorce with his wife (!). He lives alone (no kid) in the apartment and never pays any mind to the movement from the flat above, until he is told that it is supposed to be unoccupied. Later water starts to drip from the ceiling and no matter how much he complains the management do nothing about it. When he goes upstairs to investigate the problem himself he walks into the abandoned apartment and finds a bath tub full of water. He is then attacked by the apparition of a woman dressed in a long black gown who chases after him (she walks in slow motion towards him). The story finally ends with him packing and leaving the apparent building.

There you have it. Until recently, I never watched Dark Water in my entire life and since seeing a film that comes very close to a short story that I wrote is just too freaky. And once again, I NEVER SAW THIS MOVIE WHEN I WROTE THE STORY.

Well I didn't expect a kind-of Spanish Inquisition!

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like the idea mate, post the website, sounds good

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Brings to mind "bathtub woman" in Kubrick's "The Shining". Scared the daylights out of me when I was a kid.

I did the same thing - wrote a short story and a short time later a movie came out with pretty much the same concept and plot. I was upset, but after thinking about it for a while I realized that my story wasn't really that original.

I think there are very few 'new' ideas - most stories have already been told...if not recently, than in the distant past...and we pick up the echoes throughout our lives until one day we get an 'idea' that isn't as new as we thought! For anything to be unique, it has to be so far out there that you run the risk of nobody understanding or liking it.

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