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Shutter Reviews
The very Thai-specific charms that made the original such an unforeseen, unpredictable delight when I first saw it are almost entirely absent here.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2018
Workmanlike at best; derivative, predictable and slightly dull at worst.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 16, 2008
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 shock-free Shutter.
| Original Score: C- | Mar 26, 2008
With Shutter, that nerve-tingling soundtrack gets heavy use almost from the beginning of the movie. It becomes tiresome.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2008
At some point in Shutter you will probably lose count, along with your patience, but the film will keep right on going.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2008
Though a presentation of 20th Century Fox, Shutter has the look and feel of a proper J-horror film.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2008
If Shutter is any indication, the reputation of professional photographers is still on the wane. Not only are photographs creepy, the film suggests, but so are photographers.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2008
Shutter is a ghost story free of logic and spirit, representative of everything that's wrong with so much of current mainstream studio fare.
| Original Score: .5/4 | Mar 23, 2008
A blandly cast and crafted remake of the same-titled 2004 Thai pic that itself emulated J-horror norms, which seemed a lot fresher back then. Low on real scares, atmosphere and character.
Full Review | Mar 22, 2008
Strictly perfunctory in its concept and execution, Shutter presents the usual series of spooky images of a deadpan female ghost showing up at odd times and moving in the slow, jerky movements that are de rigueur for the genre.
Full Review | Mar 22, 2008
The director, Masayuki Ochiai, conjures textbook J-horror miasma: clammy clinical interiors; overcast skies; diffuse cityscapes.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2008
Shutter coughs up another vengeful ghost in the form of a spurned Japanese waif who appears in photographs and sets about getting her message across as many ghosts do -- in the most indirect, passive-aggressive, logic-defying way imaginable
Full Review | Original Score: C- | Mar 22, 2008
Luke Dawson's screenplay isn't bad, it's just pointlessly derivative.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008
The epitome of gutless, derivative hackwork.
| Original Score: D | Mar 21, 2008