Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana

A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Parkpoom Wongpoom, Banjong Pisanthanakun

Release Date: January 1, 2004

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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2007

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  • September 28, 2009
    A swing and a miss! Completely derivative horse shit. Cool ending, though, and surprisingly solid performances. Too bad it isn't scary, relying heavily on audio cues (some of which are shockingly misused) and falling back on the old, now unscary Asian girl ghost crutch. Shutter i...( read more)s poorly lit and cheap-looking, further undermining the already heavy attempts at creating atmosphere. After seeing something like REC, the amateurish direction behind something like this really shows. Also, Tun is a prick.

    Completely avoidable. For all the talk of how it was going to put Thai horror on the map, it sure didn't make much of a splash...and for good reason.
  • March 19, 2009
    Best watched at night with the lights down to get the full effect. There are images here that can SCARE even the most hardened of viewers. Too bad the story is totally ludicrous and unoriginal, otherwise this would have been a great horror movie.
  • July 25, 2008
    Wonderfully shot horror film whose atmosphere far exceeds the film itself. Again it's an Asian horror film that focusses around an investigation, a dead girl and many twists. The first problem comes from the initial hit and run incident. Neither person seems that bothered after h...( read more)aving possibly killed someone. The film has a wonderfully creepy presenc to it, and the ghost in question is particularly scary, though her ochestra she seems to bring with her is not needed. It's not something I was invested in, in terms of characters but it certainly had me jumping.
  • July 23, 2008
    pretty good asian ghost flick. the story is revealed slowly but told well. the ghost looks quite freaky and the main actors play their roles strongly, especially the guy. definitely worth a watch!
  • July 22, 2008
    Definitely one of the better Ring knockoffs coming out of Asia recently. Shutter has a good premise and some genuinely spooky moments, and it's nice to see a hero in the lead rather than the typical wispy heroine. Great fun, certainly recommended.
  • October 22, 2009
    This isn't a bad supernatural thriller. Some scares here and there. Otherwise, pretty predictable and a similar plot to most other horrors.
  • October 14, 2009
    Every time my girlfriend runs over somebody on a lonely stretch of highway she always starts in with the whining! "We should have checked the body! We shouldn't have just driven away! Boo-hoo I feel so guilty".
    Of course the person always ends up haunting us, turning out to be c...( read more)ompletely evil and such, but still she never learns her lesson.
  • October 9, 2009
    This movie is the craziest, most excellent movie ever made!
  • October 4, 2009
    It's hard for me to enjoy horror movies anymore, so I can't say this was awesome. It has a creepy premise and at first I was expecting it to be like "I know what you did last summer." It turned out not to be (from the beginning point I thought it would) but did end up that way f...( read more)rom a later revealed point. It is a different spin on a tried and true horror base- vengeful ghost seeking justice against those who wronged them. As the story unfolds, you realize some characters aren't the people you thought they were and really, only one character was redeemable. Even the ghost herself was an unbalanced mess in real life so it's not that she deserved the way things happened, but you're left thinking "wow, this was a really effed up bunch of people."
    If you know someone easily scared/creeped out, this could be a good recommendation to them. Has very little gore (one scene involving blood and teeth) but it mostly relies on the creepy psychological factor than anything else.
  • September 26, 2009
    Shutter tells the tale about love, tragedy and a fatal attraction that you can't seem to escape. I do love how Asians can capture the element of horror in a film. The detail in Shutter was really quite amazing. For example, the use of the male and female praying man...( read more)tis' mating habits on the TV in the background. The female mantis eats the male when they're mating. The male eventually accepts his death and dies. That certain scene tells the story perfectly. In another scene, we see a female mantis in some shrub where the photographer and his girlfriend go to visit the dead girls mother. Little parts like that grab my attention. The music score also lends a helping hand in the scare tactics for Shutter. Granted, they do go a little overboard with it, but the whole point of the movie is to make you jump, and it accomplishes that perfectly. There's also a part at the start of the ending credits where it says the photos that were used in the film that showed families with apparitions in them, were actually real. The all around creepy atmosphere from the dialogue to the score make for a great horror film.

Comments


  • SilentWarProductions2009
    September 30, 2008
    Wrong film you stupid bitch...but then again, you did go see the REMAKE in theaters, so that shows just how you are. This is the ORIGINAL from 2004!
  • XXXHarleyQuinnXXX
    August 8, 2008
    ....wow.. once again.. laughing to hard. had to leave the movie theater. ok, the ending was pretty cool. rest of it. just f-ing ridicuouls
  • MorpheusOne
    February 5, 2008
    Personally, I think they should continue to remake asian ghost stories, bc quite frankly, many of them are damn good, tho quite often, they are not as good as the originals. That doesn't mean that they should stop making them. What it might mean is that Hollywood should pull its head out of its ass and make them better!

  • lovecyn4ever
    May 16, 2007
    Let me start by saying is a rip off of few Asian ghost films from the pale girl crawling in bed,the bathtub scene & the hallway scenes when the ghost always shows up to creep out someone,Etc....Slow in parts & rely in a good score to create a creepy mood but then not that much happens & at times glimpses of the ghost in different forms.Watching this film was like looking at another sequel for The Grudge.

    US should stop remaking these same Ghost Asian Films,nothing original can be expected.Otherwise gonna add more to the line-up of bad PG-13 horror remakes from Pulse,Dark Waters & The Grudge.

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  • lmperfectionist
    February 2, 2007
    I have seen this movies many times and thought it's one of the good ghost stories, reasonable and continually want to know what will happen next or how was the relationship between each character. Like other Asian ghost movies the belief in the lives after death.

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