Shutter (I) (2008)
1/10
Shutter
6 February 2011
Warning: Spoilers
I didn't realise that this was Americanised remake of the Japanese original, I knew it was rated very lowly by the critics, I guess I just wanted to watch it for the sake of watching a bad film, hoping to agree with the critics. Basically Benjamin 'Ben' Shaw (Joshua Jackson) and Jane (Rachael Taylor, a near spitting image of Nicole Kidman) are newlyweds, so are naturally taking as many photos as possible, whether meaningful of mundane. They move to Japan because of Ben's new and exciting job opportunity, a photo shoot in Tokyo, but on the way, driving on an icy road through a dark forest they seem to hit a girl and skid off road, but then they wake up, no body. Jane is sure of what happened, but she and Ben continue on to find their new perfect home, which they quickly, and the taking photos continues. Recently though when taking photos, Ben and Jane notice a strange white light is in most of them, and an expert tells them it is the sign of a spirit, i.e they have a ghost. With a series of nightmares, and worse strange events and attacks, the couple confirm that they are being haunted, and it appears to be that Japanese girl they hit with the car. But Ben reveals a very scary fact that he knew the girl, named Megumi (Megumi Okina), she used to be a stalker to him, she never left him alone, and they tried to frame her with some photos, but it turned into rape, and she committed suicide. In the end, Jane leaves him, and the saying "she's with me all the time" is very literal, she has been sitting invisible on Ben's shoulders since her death, explaining his weird neck thing, and in the end turning catatonic he is in a mental hospital. Also starring David Denman as Bruno, John Hensley as Adam, Maya Hazen as Seiko, James Kyson-Lee as Ritsuo, Yoshiko Miyazaki as Akiko and Kei Yamamoto as Murase. Jackson and Taylor are slightly dull together and separately, there may be at least one jump that actually got me, and the moment or two that was chilling, but almost all the way through was bored, not scared and unimpressed, a silly remake horror thriller. Poor!
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