Stars: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thonghee, Achita Sikamana

Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun

Summary: After a drunken night out, photographer Tun and his girlfriend Jane accidently run over a woman in their car. They flee the scene and return home. However, Tun begins to see creepy shadows in his photographs when he develops them...

This Thai thriller follows a photographer and his girlfriend in a chilling tale full of supernatural twists and turns. After a drunken night out, photographer Tun and his girlfriend Jane accidently run over a woman in their car. They flee the scene and return home. However, Tun begins to see creepy shadows in his photographs when he develops them. As Tun attempts to discover the cause of the shadows, his friends come under threat and he is stuck in a race against time to find out the mystery before his life is destroyed. Despite the glut of eastern horror made in the later 1990s and early 2000s, SHUTTER has plenty of freshness and originality and is a nerve-shredding, creepy and eerie horror that offers an unsettling atmosphere.

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Based on a 2004 Thai horror flick, this surprisingly effective Hollywood remake is actually set in Tokyo. That's where newlywed hubby Joshua Jackson has taken bride Rachael Taylor (Transformers) for an ill-advised honeymoon. They hit a woman standing in the middle of a spooky road, after which all sorts of ghosts seem to emerge from Jackson's camera (he's come to Japan for a fashion-photography gig). Can our plucky heroine, a fish out of water in a confusing city, find the answer to this haunted puzzle? Well, yes, but she won't like what she finds.

Shutter is distinguished by director Mayasuki Ochiai's compositional eye, which favours the empty, creeped-out spaces in which ghosts might dwell. The movie also gets into the phenomenon of "spirit photography," which suggests that the dear departed make their presence known as white flashes in snapshots. That stuff's kind of fun; unfortunately, Ochiai's ear for dialogue is as clunky as his eye is sharp, and Jackson and Taylor are saddled with some truly unfortunate exposition. The actors don't leave much of an impression either, although Megumi Okina (leading lady of Ju-on: The Grudge) is sufficiently spooky as a woman who will not be ignored. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	Thai
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	English
Year:	2004
Release Date:	September 22, 2008
Runtime:	92 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C T D 51180
Keywords:	World, General, Cinema, Horror, Occult, Thai, Shutter
Genre:	Horror/Occult