Shutter (Widescreen) (Unrated Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Masayuki Ochiai
Actors: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, James Kyson Lee, Megumi Okina, David Denman
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
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Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 85
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2252386D
UPC: 024543523864
EAN: 0024543523864
ASIN: B0019X3YX2
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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Product Description
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. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 07/15/2008 Starring: Joshua Jackson Rachael Taylor Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Ur
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Based on a 2004 Thai horror flick, this surprisingly effective Hollywood remake is actually set in Tokyo. That's where newlywed hubby Joshua Jackson has taken bride Rachael Taylor (Transformers) for an ill-advised honeymoon. They hit a woman standing in the middle of a spooky road, after which all sorts of ghosts seem to emerge from Jackson's camera (he's come to Japan for a fashion-photography gig). Can our plucky heroine, a fish out of water in a confusing city, find the answer to this haunted puzzle? Well, yes, but she won't like what she finds. Shutter is distinguished by director Mayasuki Ochiai's compositional eye, which favors the empty, creeped-out spaces in which ghosts might dwell. The movie also gets into the phenomenon of "spirit photography," which suggests that the dear departed make their presence known as white flashes in snapshots. That stuff's kind of fun; unfortunately, Ochiai's ear for dialogue is as clunky as his eye is sharp, and Jackson and Taylor are saddled with some truly unfortunate exposition. The actors don't leave much of an impression either, although Megumi Okina (leading lady of Ju-on: The Grudge) is sufficiently spooky as a woman who will not be ignored. --Robert Horton
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 Another Atrocious Hollywood Re-Make Of A Great Asian Horror Movie October 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is probably the third worst re-make of an Asian horror movie I have had the unfortunate luck and choice of watching(The first movie I feel was The Ring 2 and the other was The Grudge 2). Another point I like to say is one or two reviewers keep saying how this is a horrible J-horror re-make when an actuality the original is a horror movie from Thailand. This re-make does at least follow most of the original story-plot for the most part and that's probably one of the few things I can think of that I like about the re-make. The short storyline is that you have three male friends who are all working or living in Japan and seem to be great people but these three have actually committed a horrible crime in their past and have covered it up. Here is where you see one of the three who has recently gotten married and is working for one of the other three friends as a professional photographer. Then the wife starts to see and experience unusual things causing her husband who's at first skeptical to check it out. After a while the husband and his other two friends start to experience the same phenomenon and than after a few says one of the three friends is killed by some spirit. Of course you'll learn more of why this is happening to the three male friends and why the wife is part of the spiritual phenomenon too. Some of the actors weren't to bad but in all it seemed to me that most were acting pretty stale and really without any true emotions or feelings in their characters during the movie. So at the end if you truly like Asian horror movies I say stick with the originals and stay away from most of these horrible Hollywood re-makes.
 Worst horror movie I have seen in a while. October 2, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie was so pathetic it's beyond pathetic, entering a stage of ultimate patheticness that could be pooled together to annihilate the entire planet.
There is nothing, NOTHING, scary about the "scary girl" in this movie. Compared to The Ring and The Grudge girl she is really a joke. All the "scary" moments are nothing but cheesy and stupid, and the actors are unlikeable at best. Very VERY formulaic story also.
The only scary thing about this movie is the resulting suicidal tendencies that develop as you become willing to do anything to escape the torture of watching it.
 Shutter October 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading some reviews I went out and rented this to see what I thought of it. I think it was ok but could have had a little faster pace to it once you first see this womans ghost. I have to say HELL YEAH to the new wife for leaving her husband after finding out his dark secret in the end tho. Good for her. A definite rent before you buy to make sure your gonna like it before you spend the 20 or 30 dollars.
Enough Asian Remakes Already... September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only thing worse than reading a book that is 300 pages that should have been 200 pages is watching a movie that is 100 minutes long, that felt like 3 hours long, that should have been 60 minutes long. Wait, there is something worse...trying to watch a HORROR movie an having to sit through two lame pseudo-sex scenes before anything HORROR related even starts to happen. Shutter is based on a good premise gone wrong by trying to translate it for an American audience. I am no fan of all these Asian-remake horror flicks. It was done right ONCE with The Ring...let it go. Another problem...how could an actress who was good in Transformers have totally forgotten how to ACT??? I won't even mention the rest of the cast, becasue they were clueless. The only saving grace of this movie was the ending, not just becasue it was over, but becasue it was actually good. That is the ONLY reason it gets two stars. Too bad you have to sit through the rest of this garbage to get to the ending. WASTE OF TIME!!!
Much the Same September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This isn't a bad picture, it is just not all that original. After all of the Asian influenced pictures and remakes of the past few years, another movie with a creepy Japanese girl just didn't scare me. The woman in the Grudge was much more effective in my opinion. That being said, the acting is fairly solid and the story is okay. A few good moments of creepiness, but no big jumps. Aside from the end of the movie, there are no real deaths either. It is a slightly above average horror movie good for a rent first. I'm sure some will like it enough to buy, but I wouldn't recommend a blind buy.
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