SHUTTER

Title : Shutter

Genre : Horror

Cast : Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, Megumi Okina

Rating : Mild horror, ok!

Pic : rottentomato.com

Synopsis:

A newlywed couple Ben (Joshua Jackson) and Jane (Rachael Taylor) is moving to Tokyo for honey moon and to stay due to Ben's job as a photographer. They drive along a quiet road in the middle of the night. Jane is accidently hit a girl while try to see a map, she's frightened but confussed since they can not find the body. The couple then spen their honey moon in a beautiful cabin around Fuji mountain. Pictures taken in the cabin balcony were blured, showing a white foggy shadow. The couple take it lightly at first, but it is changing when Seiko, Ben's assistant, said that they are spirit pictures. Jane starts to see weird things and when she tries to tell her husband, Ben refuses to believe and assured his wife that ghosts are not exist, although he also see weird things. Courious Jane keep search for answer, meanwhile terrors rising, scared both and their friends died one by one. Soon Jane realize that the ghost is called Megumi Tanaka (Megumi Okina) which used had a relationship with his husband, Ben. When she confronted, Ben explain that he was has a relationship with Megumi, a translator, in the same company he works. But since he did not love her, he told Megumi to stay away, but she was totally in love and refuse to stay away and keep shadowing Ben where ever he goes. Jane determines to find out what is really going on, and the more she search, the worse facts she finds.

Comments:

Though Rottontomatoes rate this movie as weird and boring movie, i like this film a lot. Fist because there is no shocking sounds like any other hollywood horrors (and i just realize that americans love that shocking sounds!). Hollywood horrors and shocking sounds or musics are just inseparable, so weird. This movie is just go smoothly, scary, shocking, and has unpredictable ends. But for those who love the shocking sounds and scary scene, this movie might look boring, more over, beside the present of scary Megumi, none other is scary. This is more like horror drama movie, i bet the original movie is way scarier, thai movie. And don't bother to find me one hi hi ^_^

Fun facts:

• On driving scene, it was showed heavy rain but after car crashed, no rain appears and snow piles on street sides.
• When Ben is in the dark room and the ghost touches his neck, which he tought it's his wife, we can see that the arm is cover with dark sweater, and when he got back and realized that it was not his wife, Megumi was not wearing a dark sweater.
• Early in the film, Ben tells Jane that they can't call a friend back in New York because back home it's three a.m., "yesterday." Actually, the time difference between New York and Tokyo is thirteen hours, Tokyo being thirteen hours ahead of New York. So it might have been three a.m. there, but not three o'clock in the morning the previous day.
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