Film

Shutter

Cert: 15

Description: Well-respected photographer Benjamin Shaw and his wife Jane return to Japan for one of Ben's assignments, shortly after they have been involved in a car accident. During the day, Ben is on set, marshalling beautiful models and his close-knit Japanese team, while Jane explores the city, capturing daily life on her digital camera. The young wife begins to suffer nightmarish visions of Megumi, the girl Jane is convinced they knocked down that fateful night. Determined to understand why the spirit is tormenting them, Jane visits a psychic, hoping to make contact with the spectral world.

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Dir: Masayuki Ochiai.

Cast: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, Megumi Okina

Country: US.

Year: 2008.

Duration: 85mins

Just an average remake

Seen it somewhere before: Shutter is not as good as the original

By Derek Malcolm
15 May 2008

This American version of the ghost story-cum-horror, which became the highest grossing film in Thailand, is no better for a change of scene.

It has Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor as a married couple who knock down a girl in their car and get haunted half to death in Tokyo, where the husband has a glamorous photographic assignment.

His wife hates the place and when strange blurs appear on his photographs the question is whether the ghost is warning the wife or trying to do her in. It�s OK, but no more.