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Sep 09, 2004 Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom. With Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana, Unnop Chanpaibool. A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
- Will the next terror-minded remake involve a possessed telegraph machine or a grudge-minded ox and cart? Neither option could be any lamer than the shock-free Shutter.
- With Shutter, that nerve-tingling soundtrack gets heavy use almost from the beginning of the movie. It becomes tiresome.
- Shutter is seriously short on shudders.
- At some point in Shutter you will probably lose count, along with your patience, but the film will keep right on going.
- Though a presentation of 20th Century Fox, Shutter has the look and feel of a proper J-horror film.
- If Shutter is any indication, the reputation of professional photographers is still on the wane. Not only are photographs creepy, the film suggests, but so are photographers.
- Asian horror remakes are typically not screened for critics, and Shutter is no exception. The studios know what they have: watered-down, lifeless shells of motion pictures devoid of characters, drama, or anything remotely resembling horror.
- A blandly cast and crafted remake of the same-titled 2004 Thai pic that itself emulated J-horror norms, which seemed a lot fresher back then. Low on real scares, atmosphere and character.
- Strictly perfunctory in its concept and execution, Shutter presents the usual series of spooky images of a deadpan female ghost showing up at odd times and moving in the slow, jerky movements that are de rigueur for the genre.
- The director, Masayuki Ochiai, conjures textbook J-horror miasma: clammy clinical interiors; overcast skies; diffuse cityscapes.
- Shutter coughs up another vengeful ghost in the form of a spurned Japanese waif who appears in photographs and sets about getting her message across as many ghosts do -- in the most indirect, passive-aggressive, logic-defying way imaginable
- The epitome of gutless, derivative hackwork.
- Consider this movie to be almost as good as The Eye but with less of a coherent story.
- The very Thai-specific charms that made the original such an unforeseen, unpredictable delight when I first saw it are almost entirely absent here.
- It's worth wartching if you favor the style, but can also satiate horror fans that just want to be scared and experience something (slightly) new.
- Shutter, which attempts to do for cameras what The Ring did for videocassettes, what Pulse did for computers, and what The Grudge did for grudges.
- Avoid unless you've never seen a horror movie in your life or you just have very low standards.
- ...an absolutely redundant piece of work...
- Out of the list of horrible remakes I've experienced in 2008, 'Shutter' really isn't the worst one I've seen yet, but it sure does suck enough to rank up there...