A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that ... Read allA newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
James Kyson
- Ritsuo
- (as James Kyson Lee)
Masaki Ôta
- Police Officer
- (as Masaki Ota)
Storyline
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- TriviaAlthough the original film Shutter (2004) is of Thai origin and is set in Thailand, this film takes inspiration from Japanese culture and is set in Japan instead. This was because director Masayuki Ochiai was more comfortable filming in his home country, rather than flying to America to direct this remake.
- Goofs(at around 17 mins) At one point, Jane says she must call New York, but Ben says it's 3am there, yesterday. This is a mistake. If it was 3am in New York, in Tokyo it would be 4pm in the afternoon on the same day (give or take an hour for differences in daylight savings).
- Alternate versionsAn unrated version was released for the DVD and Blu-ray with 5 extra minutes of footage, clocking in at 90 minutes as opposed to the 85 minute theatrical cut, the changes include:
- Small extensions to scenes already in the theatrical cut.
- A completely new scene where Bruno shows Ben and Jane around in their studio home.
- Another new scene where Ben and Jane explore the basement of their new home.
- The highway scene is extended to show Megumi sliding off the car before she disappears.
- A small scene of Jane traversing the streets of Tokyo.
- The scene with the model Emi is slightly longer.
- A new scene where Ben sees a shape in the distance only for it to turn out to be one of the models instead.
- A shot of Jane following Ritsuo to his room.
- An extension of the meeting between Ben, Jane, and Murase.
- Bruno's death scene is slightly more graphic.
- Ben and Jane return home and embrace after Megumi's funeral.
- The scene where Ben electrocutes himself is longer and more graphic.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Videofobia: The Spirit (2014)
- SoundtracksFalling
Written and Performed by Krysten Berg
Courtesy of Song and Film
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Very morose and pretty bad
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
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
- Rodrigo_Amaro
- Mar 13, 2011
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- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Hồn Ma Báo Oán
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $25,928,550
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,447,559
- Mar 23, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $48,555,306
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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