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Shutter
2008
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Positive Reviews
10
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29
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2.0
/5
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3.0
Will the next terror minded remake involve a possessed telegraph machine or a grudge minded ox and cart Neither option could be any lamer than the sho ..
EW
0.6
Shutter is a ghost story free of logic and spirit, representative of everything thats wrong with so much of current mainstream studio fare.
1.0
The very Thai specific charms that made the original such an unforeseen, unpredictable delight when I first saw it are almost entirely absent here.
4.5
Its worth wartching if you favor the style, but can also satiate horror fans that just want to be scared and experience something (slightly) new.
IGN
1.0
Shutter is a movie thats a few years behind its time, maybe even a few decades.
E Film Critic
2.0
Its workmanlike at best; derivative, predictable and slightly dull at worst.
3.0
It gets points for avoiding the graphic gore so common in horror movies nowadays, but Shutter wont make you shudder, let alone scream.
One Guys Opinion
1.3
The Asian horror remake subgenre has gone through all the stages of bread: at first, it was a fresh alternative to generic American horror then, as mo ..
ReelViews
3.8
Genre fans will recognize the influences, notably Peter Straubs GHOST STORY (1981), and ten years worth of J horror cliches.
Tv Guide
2.5
The new American remake squashes even that one unique factor by turning right around and setting the story among Americans in Tokyo.
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
The anti climactic third act that ensues undoubtedly stands as further proof of the films lamentable overlength, with the end result an almost termina ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Only the punning title distinguishes this one from The Ring, The Grudge, The Eye or any of the other entries in this exhausted genre.
News Review
1.5
Its hardly news that in a scary movie, a white girl wandering through Tokyo is frightened and harassed by some supernatural phenomenon.
Pop Matters
2.5
At some point in Shutter you will probably lose count, along with your patience, but the film will keep right on going.
News Day
2.5
A Japanese horror director making his American debut, Ochiai brings very little style or personality to the proceedings.
Film Journal International ..
2.5
If Shutter is any indication, the reputation of professional photographers is still on the wane. Not only are photographs creepy, the film suggests, b ..
Boston
2.0
Dull, derivative and dumb, with only a few good moments to break the monotony.
Mountain X
3.1
What more happy and fitting occasion for photography than a wedding
Toronto Star
2.0
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Emanuellevy
1.5
Listed on the Internet Movie Data Base as a horror/mystery/thriller, this movie falls short in each of those categories.
Reel Talk Reviews
1.5
With one of the most inadvertently hilarious climaxes Ive ever seen in a horror movie, Shutter is a passable time waster, one you could kill time with ..
Cinema Crazed
2.0
If you want to see a horror film in the cinema and Shutter is the only thing showing, youll find it be passable fun.
Eye For Film
2.0
This tends to make it all rather predictable, and often irritatingly derivative.
2.5
The aesthetic look of the film gives the proceedings an eloquence that it otherwise is sorely lacking.
The Movie Boy
2.5
Luke Dawsons screenplay isnt bad, its just pointlessly derivative.
Movie Freak
2.0
As far as the Asian horror remakes go, Ive seen a lot worse... But then again, Ive seen a lot better.
7M Pictures
1.5
Its PG 13 rating and basic lack of gore seem designed to be uncontroversial, but of course the result of all this anti controversy is a really dull fi ..
Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
Running a slim 85 minutes, Shutter could easily lose two reels and still make sense.
E Online
3.0
Consider this movie to be almost as good as The Eye but with less of a coherent story.
Film School Rejects
3.5
Its an effective scary story that depicts women with spirit on both sides of the divide.
Abc
2.0
The director, Masayuki Ochiai, conjures textbook J horror miasma: clammy clinical interiors; overcast skies; diffuse cityscapes.
Ny Times
2.0
Reconfigured from a 2004 Thai production, the American Shutter is so derivative of other Asian chillers, audiences will easily find themselves one ste ..
Brian Or Ndorf
1.5
What happens is the same as every other J horror remake only less so, at least in part because it stars Rachael Taylor and Joshua Jackson instead of a ..
Antagony & Ecstasy
1.3
With bland thrills and predictable chills, the functional yet forgettable Shutter is one ghost story likely headed for ghastly box office numbers.
0.0
Of course, this leads to a movie that just wont end!.You reach for your jacket and think sweet relief is but a few moments away.
Waffle Movies
2.0
Otherwise, this is real deja vu stuff avoid unless youve never seen a horror movie in your life or you just have very low standards.
The Shiz Nit
1.5
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Can Mag
2.0
The result is a film that neatly fits ever so nearly in a genre, even if it doesnt deliver the scary goods.Shutter is seriously short on shudders.
Orlando Sentinel
1.0
Its fascinating to see uninfected people can be as gruesome as flesh eating monsters.
Bloody Disgusting
1.5
Another reason not to get the Supernatural Package at the one hour photo.
Metromix.com
1.9
Contains a property damaging clash of the titans free for all of such intensity that in the pre computer effects era it could have been visualized onl ..
Commercial Appeal
1.0
Sadly, this remake of a Thai film by a Japanese director with an American cast is exactly the type of supernatural hogwash that Hollywood has been hoo ..
Ear Of Newt
3.0
The cinematography is lush and gorgeous, making for a welcome respite from Cloverfields psychotic shaky cam; it doesnt have the dour ick factor of One ..
Horror
2.5
Shutter features another pale, scraggly haired young woman a la The Ring haunting our protagonists. Yawn.
Washington Times
4.5
Shutter the latest photographic enlargement of an Asian horror picture, is clearer and sharper than many of its predecessors, but even the most expert ..
1.5
The main problem is that they spelled the title wrong. The first vowel should be an I.
FEARnet
2.0
Workmanlike at best; derivative, predictable and slightly dull at worst.
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