Shutter (2005)

I remember watching the American version at a sleepover and instinctively knew it was a remake of an Asian film (I had wrongly assumed Japanese) and that I had to watch it. The story stayed with me and I decided it was time to watch the original version and be spared the crassness of the Hollywood version. This makes use of a few jump-scares but also uses slow horror to freak the viewer out. But its the plot here that nails it. Good acting by the leads. This is Asian horror at its near best. I wouldn't say its one of the greatest (I will leave that title to the Jap ones), but this is a pretty good attempt.

Shutter is one example of a horror movie that is not only concerned with the spooky side of horror movie. Shutter offers a new story idea with a good message. The story is very interesting to watched from beginning to the end of film. The story line in this film is constructed well and clear. The mystery between the character, Tun, Jane, friends, Natre and ghost also quite difficult to predict and could make curios the audience. The twist when the film almost over also added more points for this movie. Simplicity is the attraction of Shutter. There is not a lot of visual effects used in this film, but some scenes that seems trivial even more scary.

I have been watching horror movies for about 20+ years and I have seen all the blood and guts stuff from Hostel to Irreversible all the August Underground films, Martyrs, Inside, Scrapbook, just about all the extreme torture horror stuff and any and everything this genre has to offer believe me that isn't what true horror is about, but this is.When it comes to horror I believe a film should instil fear and dread and actually try to frighten the viewer, and this my friends does just that.Along with it's counterparts Ringu, Ju on, Kairo, The Eye, and so on this is in my opinion the best of that sub genre and one of the most outright frightening films in existence.Overall I won't give anything away just to say get in a dark room late at night put the DVD in on a big screen with the sound up and watch it by yourself.You be the judge.

I wanted to watch the American remake and had just missed it, when I used my cable box to search for the next showing this came up as the only option. I'm not usually a fan of Asian or Eastern films because they are slower paced than what I am used to but wow, this was very good. The pace of it didn't bother me in the least. It kept my attention the whole movie, my attention span has definitely been destroyed by years of American television. I really loved the twist and story. Also I don't like watching subtitles. I pretty much hate it. I feel like subtitles take too much of my attention away from the film itself but this movie was not ruined by the fact that I had to read subtitles. To me that's saying a lot! I don't want to give anything away so that's all I'm going to say!