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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.
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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. Mar 26, 2008 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
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.
Clark Collis
With Shutter, that nerve-tingling soundtrack gets heavy use almost from the beginning of the movie. It becomes tiresome. Mar 24, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
With Shutter, that nerve-tingling soundtrack gets heavy use almost from the beginning of the movie. It becomes tiresome.
Philip Marchand
Shutter is seriously short on shudders. Mar 24, 2008 | Full Review…
Shutter is seriously short on shudders.
Roger Moore
At some point in Shutter you will probably lose count, along with your patience, but the film will keep right on going. Mar 24, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
At some point in Shutter you will probably lose count, along with your patience, but the film will keep right on going.
Rafer Guzman
Though a presentation of 20th Century Fox, Shutter has the look and feel of a proper J-horror film. Mar 24, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4
Though a presentation of 20th Century Fox, Shutter has the look and feel of a proper J-horror film.
Stephen Cole
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. Mar 24, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
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.
Michael Hardy
Consider this movie to be almost as good as The Eye but with less of a coherent story. Oct 18, 2018 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Consider this movie to be almost as good as The Eye but with less of a coherent story.
Kevin Carr
The very Thai-specific charms that made the original such an unforeseen, unpredictable delight when I first saw it are almost entirely absent here. Oct 18, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The very Thai-specific charms that made the original such an unforeseen, unpredictable delight when I first saw it are almost entirely absent here.
Marc Savlov
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. Oct 18, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Laura Burrows
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. Feb 16, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
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.
Steve Newton
Avoid unless you've never seen a horror movie in your life or you just have very low standards. Oct 14, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Avoid unless you've never seen a horror movie in your life or you just have very low standards.
Ali Gray
...an absolutely redundant piece of work... May 28, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
...an absolutely redundant piece of work...
David Nusair
Scary but a pretty bad storyline!
Super Reviewer
Inferior remake of the super-creepy Thai original from 2004. I say inferior but to be fair it was not too bad. Having seen the original version I knew the story and twists but I tried to watch as if I didn't know. It definitely lacks scares and that creepy atmosphere the Thai version had, but the last 35 minutes or so it provides some decent chills of its own.
The Shutter remake is yet another attempt to remake a good Japanese horror film into a crappy not so original or scary film for a tween audience. A sorry film from start to finish, this film fails and is unremarkable. The film like all remakes relies on fancy CGI to build horror, but with a cast of has been teen actors, this film is plainly terrible. It was well made, but it failed to deliver anything scary. Watch the original instead.
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.
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