Shutter (2008)

Truly Dreadful Film

just watch it!

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

There are a section of people that will more than likely put this American remake of the original Thai movie down purely BECAUSE it's an American remake, which is ridiculous in all honesty. There are plenty of remakes of Asian horror that have still been as enjoyable as the originals and it's actually quite sad people will not like the remake purely because it's an American version. If you go into this version with an open mind, even after seeing the original, then you should still quite enjoy it.This one sticks pretty close to the original in storyline as well, which is a good thing because with it being a remake you sometimes kind of expect them to change things around, and end up ruining it but they don't. The ironic thing is with that though, is if you've seen the original then you know what to expect at the end so it kind of takes that surprise element away slightly.Anyway, this one felt like it was a bit slower for the first half of the movie that what the original did, but thankfully it picks up enough within the last 30 minutes or so to make up for that. The story unravels nicely enough as it goes along, keeping your interest peaked to keep you watching until the very end with a decent amount of tension & suspense, which again gets better as the film goes on. There are also some nice creepy moments here and there and while none of them will seriously freak you out, they do enough just to make you feel that wee bit uncomfortable.The cast are OK and they do a decent enough job, but there's just something about Joshua Jackson that is out of place with his role of Ben. It's not that he does a bad job with the part, but I do feel that someone else might have done a better job. Then again it could have been worse...they could have got the emotionless Mark Wahlberg in instead.Overall, while this won't go down as being one of the best horrors of all time, it's still a very decent movie. Ignore any of the hate you read about it and judge for yourself.

SHUTTERI had never heard of this before, but i read the synopsis on the TV and it just sounded good.The movie is about a newly married couple who move to Japan. They have an accident and run over a girl, but they can't find a body when they regain consciousness. Then after that they start seeing her ghostly image in the photos that they take.For a psychological horror it wasn't scary. There were a few jump scares that were average. They made my girlfriend jump, but I unfortunately saw them coming a mile off. It is just a shame that this was not scary. But then I have never been scared by a horror. I wish I was... I think I would enjoy them more if I felt the fear. Instead I just find them entertaining.The film stars Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor & Megumi Okina. The acting was alright... I liked the Megumi. She was spooky and intense.The effects were good... when she got run over it was gruesome and really well done. Also, there were some scenes later in the film where she starts haunting them where it was so well put together it didn't look too fake. I liked it.I will give this film 7 out of 10.It was good, but a little predictable. I would consider this more of a thriller rather than a horror.For more reviews, please check out my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

Good story and surprisingly well-made. Suspense built slowly and seemed in hand of competent director and actors. Film was in 3 takes. The introduction, the main play, and surprisingly the post episode was genuinely frightful. There was a moral ending instead of senseless chop-em-up flicks. The cast was perfect. Rachel Taylor was a good actress and very believable as the young wife of photographer Ben. The Japan outdoor scenery were breath-taking. Only complaint - the Japanese women were shown and treated as objects; and the women seemed amendable to playing that role. Maybe that's reflecting the cultural norm in Japan. Otherwise a good movie night if you want enough scares.

This is a richer cousin of films like "One Missed Call", where Hollywood remakes a successful Asian horror film trying to gather more audiences since there are people in the world who hates reading captions of foreign films, so they film a English version and everybody gets happy (or not which is my case). And the similarity between both films does not stop right there. This is also a story where ghosts from the past comes back to life to scare and kill away a bunch of people, deaths that seems random and with no connection but there is one goal to be achieved by these ghosts. Instead of an cell-phone, the ghosts come out of photographs in bizarre moments; spirits ruining the photos taken by Joshua Jackson while enjoying honeymoon with his wife (Rachael Taylor), and also taking photos (that will be ruined too!) for his work making a great advertisement for a big company.Their problem started after accidentally run over a girl in the woods, and it looks like the girl's spirit is chasing them and killing some of their friends. The photographer's wife decides to investigate ghost appearances trying to understand what's behind all this, becoming an expert out of nowhere."Shutter" has an style that is becoming a trend in horror films with a unfair fight between real world and imaginary world or people versus spirits, where one can attack and the other can only run and hide; Father Merrin and Van Helsing are not here to help them, and charismatic and intelligent guys like them does not exist in films like these and that is a shame. Worst than this: it's not a scary film and not even funny. It's just morose. But the plot twist at the ending, reminding of "Ghost Story" (1981) was amazing, lift up the movie a little bit, but not enough to make a good film. The main couple has a charm and a good presence but that's it, with the help of embarrassing special effects they'll be scared for life with a strange ghost behind their backs. Bad, bad, bad. 4/10