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Critics Consensus: Being a remake of a Thai horror film instead of Japanese doesn't prevent Shutter from being another lame Asian horror remake.
Critic Consensus: Being a remake of a Thai horror film instead of Japanese doesn't prevent Shutter from being another lame Asian horror remake.
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (59) | DVD (5)
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.
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...
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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