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Un couple nouvellement marié découvre des images fantomatiques inquiétantes dans des photographies qu'ils développent après un accident tragique. Ils enquêtent et apprennent qu'il vaut mieux... Tout lireUn couple nouvellement marié découvre des images fantomatiques inquiétantes dans des photographies qu'ils développent après un accident tragique. Ils enquêtent et apprennent qu'il vaut mieux ne pas résoudre certains mystères.Un couple nouvellement marié découvre des images fantomatiques inquiétantes dans des photographies qu'ils développent après un accident tragique. Ils enquêtent et apprennent qu'il vaut mieux ne pas résoudre certains mystères.
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- Casting principal
James Kyson
- Ritsuo
- (as James Kyson Lee)
Masaki Ôta
- Police Officer
- (as Masaki Ota)
Elly Otoguro
- Yoko
- (as Eri Otoguro)
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It was between this and Meet the Browns. And since I had only seen Diary of a Mad Black Woman, I caught the 10:15 showing at my local theater. It was packed! But yet, i don't know why. The movie was terrible. Well, all you need to know about this film is that there are ghosts in the pictures. That's it. The acting is tasteless, and the haunting sound effects and music fit the mood, but doesn't help this film. In some points in the film, the pictures will creep you out. But this wont give you nightmares, unlike The Exorsict. This film, of course is a Remake of another film of the same name. Just like The Eye. Stay away from this one, at best, its a rental. But to pay money to watch it in theaters,no.
Unfortunately I didn't manage to catch the 2004 Thai original before this American remake premiered at the annual Belgian Horror and Fantasy Festival. I didn't bother to see it when it initially got released because there already was an overload of Asian Ghost movies at that time and I really couldn't cope enduring another dull and scare-free imitation of "Ringu". After seeing the US remake I'm definitely interested in checking out the original sooner or later. The basic idea of restless spirits trying to communicate through photography is remotely original, but the elaboration (at least in this remake) remains somewhat tedious and predictable. Immediately after their marriage, Jane follows her photographer husband Ben to Tokyo where his friends arranged a splendid job for him. Jane, but soon after also Ben, suffers from visions of a deceased girl and all the pictures they make are ruined by ghostly images of this same girl. There's more than obviously a link between this girl and Ben's past days as a bachelor, but Jane only gradually learns the truth of what happened exactly. To my knowledge, this is the first and so far only Thai film to be remade by a Japanese director but with American funds and cast members. Talk about an international co-production! Masayuki Ochiai previously directed the incredibly atmospheric and uncanny hospital-horror film "Infection", so he definitely knows how to build up suspense and terror through suggestion. The main problem here is that the ghostly subject matter is too "soft" and doesn't lend itself to provide some genuine shock-moments. We've all seen too many (Asian) horror movies already in which white-faced spirits spontaneously appear & disappear again, and the mystery is always build up towards a point where the script can't possibly fulfill the audience's anticipations anymore. In "Shutter", you rather quickly figure out that Ben knows than he tells, so you can easily guess each and every plot twist far in advance. There are a very limited number of sets and exterior locations. Why didn't the film take advantage of the wondrous city of Tokyo, like for example "Lost in Translation" did? Rachael Taylor is certainly a promising actress with a lot of growing potential, so I hope she'll get offered a couple of better screenplays in the near future. Thus far, she only has horror rubbish like "See No Evil" and "Man-Thing" on her repertoire and those things won't get her noticed. Neither will "Shutter", for that matter.
My family was watching this in the living room but I didn't. I heard some of my cousins screaming and they said it was scary and suspenseful. The next day I saw it, and I think my cousins are wimps and have a nerve problem. I never got scared and I almost slept through the movie. I am a fan of PG-13 horror movies, and I get scared on most of them, but this one failed. The story was a simple, but it was somewhat good. But in the end, the story just barely had a purpose. I have not yet seen the original movie from Thailand, but what my instinct say is that it could be better. Hopefully not like Pulse. Americans should stop trying to make remakes and try to make good original horror flicks that could be good in order for other countries to want to make remakes of American movies.
4/10
4/10
The trailers for this movie made it look pretty good, but it turned out to be not the best movie. It delivers the scares, but there are too many 'false alarms'. A lot of the love stuff in the beginning could've been left out. The real horror starts a little too late, and basically is pretty corny. Most of the acting is pretty bad, and some of the dialogue seems to be totally improvised. This is one Japanese horror remake that shouldn't have been made at all in my opinion. It has a pretty bad plot that takes a long time to unfold and, at times, is rather boring. Warning - do not be fooled, for this is one movie that blows! If you want to see a movie, just avoid this, and see something else instead. Trust me.
After seeing this movie, I was shocked by the comments. The movie wasn't that bad at all.
In the beginning I wasn't sure what to think. It was rather scary, and the plot itself made my question whether I saw this movie or not already. It reminded me of similar movies like the grudge.
But let's face it, the end was surprising and not in any way predictable.
I like the movie. I'll see it again someday.
I gave it a six because it was very entertaining, surprising, but it wont go into history as a masterpiece.
See this movie if you want to enjoy yourself, be scared, be excited and you wont regret it.
In the beginning I wasn't sure what to think. It was rather scary, and the plot itself made my question whether I saw this movie or not already. It reminded me of similar movies like the grudge.
But let's face it, the end was surprising and not in any way predictable.
I like the movie. I'll see it again someday.
I gave it a six because it was very entertaining, surprising, but it wont go into history as a masterpiece.
See this movie if you want to enjoy yourself, be scared, be excited and you wont regret it.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesAlthough the original film Shutter (2004) is of Thai origin and is set in Thailand, this film takes inspiration from Japanese culture and is set in Japan instead. This was because director Masayuki Ochiai was more comfortable filming in his home country, rather than flying to America to direct this remake.
- Gaffes(at around 17 mins) At one point, Jane says she must call New York, but Ben says it's 3am there, yesterday. This is a mistake. If it was 3am in New York, in Tokyo it would be 4pm in the afternoon on the same day (give or take an hour for differences in daylight savings).
- Versions alternativesAn unrated version was released for the DVD and Blu-ray with 5 extra minutes of footage, clocking in at 90 minutes as opposed to the 85 minute theatrical cut, the changes include:
- Small extensions to scenes already in the theatrical cut.
- A completely new scene where Bruno shows Ben and Jane around in their studio home.
- Another new scene where Ben and Jane explore the basement of their new home.
- The highway scene is extended to show Megumi sliding off the car before she disappears.
- A small scene of Jane traversing the streets of Tokyo.
- The scene with the model Emi is slightly longer.
- A new scene where Ben sees a shape in the distance only for it to turn out to be one of the models instead.
- A shot of Jane following Ritsuo to his room.
- An extension of the meeting between Ben, Jane, and Murase.
- Bruno's death scene is slightly more graphic.
- Ben and Jane return home and embrace after Megumi's funeral.
- The scene where Ben electrocutes himself is longer and more graphic.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Videofobia: The Spirit (2014)
- Bandes originalesFalling
Written and Performed by Krysten Berg
Courtesy of Song and Film
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- Budget
- 8 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 25 928 550 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 10 447 559 $US
- 23 mars 2008
- Montant brut mondial
- 48 555 306 $US
- Durée1 heure 25 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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