Mar 01 2009
SHUTTER (ORIGINAL)
We ploughed her down!
PLOT
Jane and Tun are out with a group of Tun’s friends and after he has a little too much to drink, she drives home. On the way, she hit’s a woman in the street and Tun urges her to drive away and leave the girl there rather than risk getting in trouble. It causes a strain in their relationship and Jane has a hard time being around him. Tun has problems of his own since a large number of photographs he takes end up with a strange white streak through them. Strange things begin happening to the couple, not to mention Tun’s friends…
TRIVIA
Shutter was remade twice, once in 2007 in Tamil and the 2008 American remake.
THOUGHTS
I just want to say that this is a creepy little movie. I saw the remake, kind of liked it and figured this would be fairly similar. While the remake didn’t scare me at all, this one had a few scenes that actually made me jump a little. The scene where Tun sees a woman walk into his darkroom, starts talking to Jane and then heads upstairs to answer the phone and finds out she’s running late was one of those scenes.
The thing about these Asian horror movies like Shutter that are so good is that it’s not just one thing that sets up the mood. It’s the lighting, music, acting, setting, camera angles, the whole nine yards. I wasn’t exactly looking under my bed after I saw Shutter, but it was definitely one of the creepier movies I’ve seen in awhile.
I have to agree with you. This movie was very creepy! The photo studio scene where the lights go out made me jump a time or two.
You should give the original Tale of Two Sisters a chance, even though someone told you the ending. Trust me, it’s one of those movies that I had to visited the IMDB afterwards to figure out the ending. The person that told you the ending might have done you a favor.
I probably will. I think it’s still in my Neflix queue, it’s just kind of buried underneath a bunch of other stuff!