Average Rating: 3.5/10
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Being a remake of a Thai horror film instead of Japanese doesn't prevent Shutter from being another lame Asian horror remake.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
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Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 10
Being a remake of a Thai horror film instead of Japanese doesn't prevent Shutter from being another lame Asian horror remake.
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Infection director Masayuki Ochiai takes the helm for this remake of the 2004 horror hit from Thailand concerning a photographer and his girlfriend who are involved in a tragic auto accident, and subsequently begin to notice ghostly figures in the backgrounds of their pictures. Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor star in this supernatural frightener. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Mar 19, 2008 Wide
Jul 15, 2008
$25.9M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (56) | DVD (7)
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.
...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...
... the film feels like a made-for-TV movie.
Bad script, so-so scares mar Asian horror remake.
If ever there was a poster child for the end of Western J-Horror (and other Asian country) adaptations, this movie is it. Not only does it offer every cliche in the genre's status, it proves how pathetic they are in our present cinematic context.
Similar to a theme park ride that scares kids, this Asian horror film frightens only newcomers to the genre from which it practically bootlegs.
Shutter the latest photographic enlargement of an Asian horror picture, is clearer and sharper than many of its predecessors, but even the most expert re-touching cannot obscure the fact that we have seen it all before.
Shutter features another pale, scraggly haired young woman a la The Ring haunting our protagonists. Yawn.
paramenei eksisoy, an ohi kai perissotero flyaro ap' tin pigi tis empneysis toy. Apo tin opoia krata episis to megethos ton logikon almaton, oksynontas ta opoy mporei gia na klepsei merikes eykoles fantezi tromares, eno kseperna to prototypo sto epipono t
As pretty and bland as its lead actors.
Yeah, this movie is a must avoid.
Workmanlike at best; derivative, predictable and slightly dull at worst.
Workmanlike at best; derivative, predictable and slightly dull at worst.
It's an effective scary story that depicts women with spirit - on both sides of the divide.
It's all rather predictable, and often irritatingly derivative
SHUTTER should have been the scariest horror film since THE RING, but instead it was infuriatingly bad. This joins ONE MISSED CALL in the ranks of worst horror remakes of all-time and I highly recommend skipping this one for the original...
The latest in the downward spiral of remakes
Are more of these Asian remakes in the offering? I "Shutter" to think.
What happens is the same as every other J-horror remake only less so, at least in part because it stars Rachael Taylor and Joshua Jackson instead of actual famous people.
The latest in a long list of Japanese horror films remaded for American audiences. Not bad not great just there. Will get around to check out the original at some point.
August 13, 2008Super Reviewer
Scary but a pretty bad storyline!
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
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