The movie follows a newlywed couple Ben and Jane as they move to Japan for a promising job opportunity, a fashion shoot in Tokyo. After a tragic accident, they start to discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
13 December 1975, Seoul, South Korea
23 January 1974, Chiba, Japan
6 August 1979, Hiroshima, Japan
25 July 1973, Newport Beach, California, USA
6 September 1983, Tokyo, Japan
February 16, 2013
Shutter, which attempts to do for cameras what The Ring did for videocassettes, what Pulse did for computers, and what The Grudge did for grudges.
March 24, 2008
Shutter is seriously short on shudders.
March 24, 2008
At some point in Shutter you will probably lose count, along with your patience, but the film will keep right on going.
March 26, 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.
March 24, 2008
Though a presentation of 20th Century Fox, Shutter has the look and feel of a proper J-horror film.
October 11, 2008
Out of the list of horrible remakes I've experienced in 2008, "Shutter" really isn't the worst one I've seen yet, but it sure does suck enough to rank up there...
August 04, 2008
... the film feels like a made-for-TV movie.
May 28, 2009
...an absolutely redundant piece of work...
October 14, 2012
Avoid unless you've never seen a horror movie in your life or you just have very low standards.
March 24, 2008
With Shutter, that nerve-tingling soundtrack gets heavy use almost from the beginning of the movie. It becomes tiresome.
March 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.
