Review of Shutter

Shutter (II) (2004)
5/10
Excellent suspense with an almost documentary feel
20 September 2019
This Thai film takes a page out of Japan's horror book and makes the movie with an expert level of suspense and level-headed control rather than America's jumpy but lackluster version of horror. I was so tense and wound up through the whole film that the credits were a welcome relief. Horror fans should definitely check this one out.

This is possibly the most matter-of-fact horror film I've ever seen. It presents the events in a straightforward manner, not bothering with any extraneous information, in a way that almost makes it feel like a documentary. The result is a horror movie so logical that the ending is perfectly logical and oddly satisfying. However, the perfect explanation also felt like a magician revealing his trick, where the mystery was stripped away by reality. As a result, it was still great horror while I watched, but it didn't leave any lasting scares.
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