Shutter - film trailer and review

Shutter is a film that comes from the executive producers of The Grudge and The Ring. In Shutter, a newly-married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs that they develop after a tragic accident. They investigate the scene further and stumble upon the fact that past mistakes can lead to an eternity of vengeance.

Ben (Joshua Jackson), a photographer and his wife Jane (Rachael Taylor) arrive in Tokyo for Ben’s assignment on a fashion shoot. The couple takes their trip to the Japanese capital as a working honeymoon.

As they make their way towards Mt. Fuji, their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road. The woman appears from nowhere and vanishes into thin air after the crash. Shocked with the incident Ben and Jane try to move on with the assignment.

Ben is no stranger to Japan and is fluent with its language, which makes him comfortable in the alien environment. Jane on the other hand feels alienated and finds it hard to get used to the new city.

Ben discovers mysterious white blurs in his photographs from the fashion show. Jane believes the blurs in Ben’s photos are from the dead girl from the road, who seeks vengeance from them for leaving her to die.

Director
Masayuki ochiai

“Shutter is based on a 2004 Thai film of the same name, which became the highest-grossing film in Thailand that year. A girl suddenly appears, gets hit by a car and disappears, only to return to haunt the perpetrators. But with its twists and shocks, the film subverted audience expectations, revealing itself to be much more than a simple ghost story. We remade the film keeping in mind the wider international sensibilities.

"Shutter is based around the subject of paranormal and spirit photography and I must say Japanese audiences are very familiar with it. Everyone in Japan at one point or another has had a sleepless night after being exposed to spirit photography.

"Spirit photography is so popular in Japan because ghosts mean more to the Japanese people than to Americans. In Japan, ghosts don’t have to do anything to be scary. In American ghost stories, they have to wreak all kinds of havoc to make an impact.”