Shutter
Monday, 19. October 2009, 23:03:20
Shutter is one of those American Japanese horrors. Like The Ring, The Grudge, Black Water (was that the name?), these are movies that incorporate the different-but-effective Japanese horror style with Hollywood's big budget.
I have to say, for creepiness, this movie definitely has one-up over The Ring, but you can see a lot of elements of this movie are borrowed from other Japanese movies.
The main idea of the film revolves around 心霊写真 shinrei shashin (see the previous post), or ghost photographs.
Unfortunately a few of Hollywood's movie traits come through. Namely the beautiful female lead, the American guy who can't actually speak Japanese (but his character can) 'oh wait it's not over yet' ending.
All round not a bad attempt at Hollywood Japanese horror.
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