Shutter: Review By Phatlightning

Mar 22nd, 2008 by Phatlightning
Grudge Remake Anyone?
  • OVERALL
    1.5
    POOR
  • Story
  • Acting
  • Directing
  • Visuals
Entering the theater I can honestly say I didnt have too high of hopes for this movie, I really just wanted to see a trailer for DB which they DIDNT show. So theres strike one and the movie hadnt even started yet.

The beginning of the movie is pretty standard, couple gets married and must relocate for the husbands newly acquired job as a photographer. So they move to Japan to start their new life and whilst on there way to the honeymoon, the wife, who was driving, runs into what appears to be a girl(go figure) in the middle of the road.

SPOILERS*****

The girl that was supposedly hit by the car mysteriously vanishes after the crash. We later find out this girl was the newly-wed husbands ex girlfriend and that the girl has been dead for sometime, unbeknownst to the husband.

The wife, having nothing else to do and creeped out from seeing the girl in all her wedding photos, sets out to research the whole thing. She later discovers that her husband had been an accomplice to the raping of this girl and that the girl had just been trying to warn her the entire time.

The wife, to my surprise, leaves her husband, and the husband is left to fend against the spirit himself. In the closing scenes, we see the husband try to "eradicate" the spirit by putting a flash bulb to his neck and hitting the switch. This goes poorly, as it should, and he basically lands himself in a psyche ward, where wouldnt ya know, the spirit of the girl is still with him. End movie.

Likenesses to the Grudge and/or the Ring:

1. The girl looks the same and does similar scary things.

2. Setting, Japan.

3. Hallway scene in the Grudge with the sounds and flickering lights, same in shutter.

4. The photo distortions in the ring are very similar to that in shutter.

*******

Overall, I found the movie to be very predictable and rather unoriginal. The only thing this movie had going for itself was that it contained very good horror music and had the audience jumping at scary parts much like in the Grudge and Ring.

I would not recommend this movie to anyone that has seen "The Grudge" based on the sole fact that it is like watching it again with a slight change in the plot.

I give it a C-.

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Comments (27)

  1. xXx-RazorBlade-Romance-xXx

    bitchass nigga!!!!!!!!

    4 years agoby @loloFlag

  2. slysnide

    I just reviewed Indy Jones 4 if anyone wants to check it out. I know it's unrelated, but just saying.

    4 years agoby @slysnideFlag

  3. Bragg

    Yea I definetely am not seein' this unless my gf wants to because I really have no use for it. The Ring was like the first Asian creep-show film and ever since then the rest sucked. The Ring 2, Grudge, Grudge 2, now this. What's next Japan movie remake *ssholes?! Ugh.

    4 years agoby @bragg1Flag

  4. Phatlightning

    could be the same, but yea her performance matches that of the Grudge basically spot on.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  5. slysnide

    God I hate "The Grudge." Unbearable. I couldn't even finish the whole thing it was so bad! And what's the deal with the current fascination with pale white Asian children with black hair and black rings around their eyes? It's not even scary! It's rather dumb and middle-school horror like. WTF?! This film by the way is an obvious rip-off of "The Grudge" and "The Ring" (which I must say is another terrible movie). Not that I care, cuz I don't, but this movie sounded terrible, and did anyone other than me notice that the girl starring here plays her character the same way as Grudge girl? Or is it the same person?

    4 years agoby @slysnideFlag

  6. Marcusx

    ya got laid so thats all that matters

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  7. kyle_hannah

    oh dude agreed f*ck this sh*tty movie the whole rape twist was just f*cking stupid and sadly i paid money to see this in the theatre thinking the premise was good wow was that a big mistake

    4 years agoby @kyle-hannahFlag

  8. Marcusx

    wow lol
    ok well its a good thing this doesnt count for sh*t with how many comments it has. PL is into commenting his own reviews! ha

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  9. The Boondock Saint

    i probably enjoyed this movie cuz i haven't seen the grudge since it was first released

    4 years agoby @combatmadness360Flag

  10. Rama's SCREEN

    Good review.. excellent observation.
    It was definitely an awful movie.
    It should've gone straight to VHS,
    that's how lame it was.

    4 years agoby @ramasscreen-comFlag

  11. LeoNiDas' Lover

    ya it was a good review but i would of given it 0 stars and oh this is the best review page ever ha

    4 years agoby @thejokerrulesFlag

  12. Phatlightning

    lol, why thank you rad.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  13. Radimus-83

    this is the worst page reviews EVER!! shame, cause the actual review by phat was good!

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  14. LeoNiDas' Lover

    ha that would be cool sh*t show ha

    4 years agoby @thejokerrulesFlag

  15. Phatlightning

    oh boy, my review is gonna turn into a sh*t show...lol

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  16. LeoNiDas' Lover

    ha you probably got aids from her now mc you dont have a father you are like anny from star wars no father ha and i have been loyal to the best movies ever made just messing with you darth baby

    4 years agoby @thejokerrulesFlag

  17. Phatlightning

    yea, thank god I got laid..means i didnt spend 10 dollars on her for nothing

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  18. Marcusx

    thats to JR..bitch :)

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  19. Marcusx

    dont be gay thats what i was told. it got pushed back prolly damn! dirtbag?! ouch guys one mistake and my balls are chopped off f*ck. and you may be a movie buff, but i have been quoting movies since before my father lost his virginity!

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  20. LeoNiDas' Lover

    you got laid for watching this pice of sh*t dude your awsome and marc stop lying i know there was,nt gonna be a dbz trailer you douchebag im a movie fanatic a true nerd only thing i thingk about are movies games chicks and my buds on here i started watching movies before i was born my teacher at school put in my year book become a writer or director and hopefully that will happen and i will save hollywood from its reapeat of the same old sh*t

    4 years agoby @thejokerrulesFlag

  21. Phatlightning

    i got my intel from dirtbag marcus... and the movie was still a jumpy movie that got me laid later that night, for that it deserves 1.5 stars.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  22. LeoNiDas' Lover

    dude were do you get your info 10,000 bc was said to have the new dk trailer and it did,nt plus how are they gonna have a trailer a year before it comes out there not even in the middle of making it check your recorsuces again and oh i knew this movie was gonna suck i would of given it 0 stars but thats just me but the trailer will probably come between aug and dec thats when the trailer will be shown i work at the movies you know

    4 years agoby @thejokerrulesFlag

  23. Radimus-83

    ok, haven't read it through it all cause i will prob see this at some point. but i should've known it would be just like all the other jap remakes.

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  24. NO NAME

    good review i agree i just got back from seeing this piece of trash what a waste.

    4 years agoby @007freakFlag

  25. T.Clark

    I thought it wouldn't be very good. Nice review.

    4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  26. Marcusx

    dude that sh*t is so funny. everytime i read your writings i laugh my ass off hahaha i knew it. its always a white protaganist turned andtaganist. how funny!

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  27. Phatlightning

    its like they took "The Grudge" and "The Ring" and combo'd them into one movie, ugh what a waste of life that was. your welcome, all of you.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag