Shutter

Name: Shutter
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: March 21, 2008
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 37
Cast: James Kyson Lee, Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor

2008

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critics

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SHUTTER

Movie Details & Credits

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: March 21, 2008

Starring: James Kyson Lee, Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor

Summary: For photographer Ben and his new wife Jane, his new assignment--a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo--was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan. But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji,For photographer Ben and his new wife Jane, his new assignment--a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo--was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan. But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit. Shaken by the accident and by the girl's disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo, where Ben begins his glamorous assignment. Having worked in Japan before and fluent in the language, Ben is comfortable there, and he eagerly reunites with old friends and colleagues. Jane, a newcomer to the city, feels very much like a stranger in a strange land as she makes tentative, unsettling forays through the city. Meanwhile, Ben has discovered mysterious white blurs--eerily evocative of a human form--that have materialized on an entire day's work from the expensive photo shoot. Jane's concerns escalate as she believes the blurs in Ben's photos are the dead girl from the road, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die... (20th Century Fox)… Expand

Director: Masayuki Ochiai

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 85 min

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TV Guide Magazine - Maitland McDonagh

Surprisingly effective supernatural tale in which there's more to fear from the living than the dead. Read full review

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Stephen Cole

Shutter has the look and feel of a proper J-horror film. Tokyo is seen as a series of gloomy gun metal skies. And the acting is more subdued than in Hollywood horror movies. Read full review

Boston Globe - Michael Hardy

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. Read full review

The New York Times - Andy Webster

The director, Masayuki Ochiai, conjures textbook J-horror miasma: clammy clinical interiors; overcast skies; diffuse cityscapes. He also gives Alfred Hitchcock a nod, with a sequence nakedly stolen from “Psycho,” and draws unease from Jane’s disorientation in a foreign city. Tokyo, in fact, may be the movie’s most fascinating player. Read full review

Variety - Dennis Harvey

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. Read full review

San Francisco Chronicle - Andy Webster

Fans of J-horror (for Japan, where the genre was born; its conventions have since spread to South Korea and Thailand) will find Shutter familiar; others may just doze. Read full review

Austin Chronicle - Marc Savlov

The very Thai-specific charms that made the original Shutter such an unforeseen, unpredictable delight when I first saw it – and when I screened it again, last night – are almost entirely absent here, eclipsed by the annoying blonde highlights of Taylor, ex-Transformer babe and forever, as the Thai say, farang. Read full review

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GenaC.

Mar 22, 2008

Surprisingly this is a good remake !

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JeremyS.

Mar 29, 2008

I liked it, its not really a horror, like I figured it would be, but its still good.