I needed to scare the $#!+ outta me to take my mind of the stress and worries caused by my assignments and hey presto; SHUTTER.Frankly speaking the movie isn't all that bad nor good. Sure I like the slightly new concept of spirit photography made into a movie, but sadly to say the 2008 ang mo's version of Shutter doesn't get my two thumbs up.
SPOILER ALERT! RUN B***** RUN!
So we we start with newly wed couple from Americana going to Nippon due to the hubby's occupation in model photography. Upon arriving at Nippon they went sightseeing and pak toed near Mt. Fuji before going to Tokyo. Then at night they drove to Tokyo with the wife at the wheels and hubby sleeping. As expected a spooky lady in white appeared in the middle of the road and the wife ran over her, causing her to lose control of her car and swerved into a tree by the roadside.
The next morning when the two recovered, they found themselves to be okay, but the car was a wreck and the unfortunate spooky lady's body was nowhere to be seen. The cops came and the hubby comforted the wife, and he kept telling her that she was hallucinating because she was tired from the trip.
At Tokyo, the wife and hubby enjoyed a Nippon life in a photo studio given by the model agency company. The hubby gave the wife the developed pics of them pak toing at Mt. Fuji, and the wife noticed some photoshopped looking smoky apparitions in all of them. She was wtfbbq but ignored them, thinking it was the camera or the lighting 's problem or something. That night the two had dinner with the hubby's 2 good buddies working for the same agency. After kampaiiang they asked the kawaii waitress to take a group pic, but the waitress dropped the expensive camera (the model Gerain is using) and got the shock of her life. The group, wtfbbqed from the incident, just shrugged it off and went home. At their new home cum studio, the couple slept and got expectedly bad dreams about the roadkilled lady.
The next morning again, the hubby woke up with a bad neck-shoulder pain and the wife figuratively told him about her bad dreams. Again the hubby just brushed the issue away and both of them enjoyed the day themselves. The wife explored the streets of Tokyo while the hubby was busy with his work (both activities involved cameras). When both of them came home the hubby was furious with his work. All of his photos were spoiled by some bad lighting. The wife just let him be and showed the housekeeper (she's smoking hot :P) her pics of the day. The housekeeper noticed all the wife's pics to have 'spirits' (again some more photoshopped looking apparitions). The housekeeper told the wife to meet the housekeeper's ex- boyfriend who was into spirit photography, and the wife agreed.
The next morning (again), the wife went to the housekeeper's ex-boyfriend's horror magazine studio. There she got a tutorial about spirit photography from Ando (yesh, the ex-bf is Ando from Heroes! Sad to say I didn't get his name in the movie). Ando told her to go meet a medium for some info on her spooky photoshopped pics, which she took into consideration. Meanwhile at home the hubby was developing pics from his work in his red room and predictably, he got played around by his wife at his back. Then he got a call from his real wife, which caused him to drop the phone and decided to check the red room to find out who was fondling him earlier. Moments later he WTFBBQed and the wife heard his scream over the phone, causing her to run back to their home cum studio. Upon reaching home the wife found the hubby sitting on an office chair facing the window. Yada yada yada turned the chair around then WTFBBQ! moment and hey, the hubby was okay but he looked like he just got scared the $#!+ out of him. Both agreed to see the medium to see what this was all about.
So they went to the medium's apartment and consulted him. The medium dude can only speak Nippon, so the hubby became the middle man to translate whatever that was needed to be said (no subtitle for anything Nippon in the movie). The medium got a feel of the pics and yelled out some profanities in Nippon, which the hubby didn't want to translate and the wife was blurred and wtfbbqed. The hubby said it was all bullshit and dragged the wife away from the place.
From there onwards the wife suspected something was up, so she went on investigating. With the guidance of the spirits in the pics, she found out that a female employee in the agency was working as a translator for her hubby back before they were married. To make things seriously short, the hubby and the translator was *ahem-ahem* but the translator's dad did not approve their relationship. Thus when the dad died, the translator became so attached and obsessed with the hubby. The hubby find this disturbing and he didn't love her that much at all, so he and his two friends mentioned earlier did *ahem ahem*, took photos of it so that they could use it to blackmail the translator. But sadly to say the translator was traumatized by the incident and committed suicide. She was the apparitions appearing in all the pics. And she has some unfinished business...
One by one the hubby's friends got killed in gorily awesome ways and the hubby was next. Back at the home cum studio, the wife found out about the *ahem ahem* and figured out the spirit was really trying to tell her how sick the hubby really was. The wife left the hubby for good, and the hubby was left enraged with the spirit. He snapped photos with his Polaroid to find his old lover and settle the score. In the end he found her, in a snapshot where she was sitting on his shoulder (hence explains his neck-shoulder pain all these times). So the hubby grabbed some cables from the photography equipments and tried to fry the spirit with 1600 megavolt of electricity. But he failed and ended up in the special ward, wtfbbqed and depressed like any typical emo. The screen zooms away to the reflection on the ward's door, showing the translator superhugging the hubby... END
HAM'S RANT:
Seen everything. Predictably scary things and scenes, all the concepts were used in the Grudge and the Ring (all ang mo version), so basically it's kinda "not fresh". But it's not that fresh to start with since it's just a westernized copy of the original movie. The original Thai version of the movie was the $#!+
HAM'S RAVE:
Still managed to 0__0 me at my seat. $#!+ I got goosebumps just by typing this review. And the actress for the translator was pretty too unlike most movies of the same genre. A good horror movie for couples, since it conveys a good message.
P/S: Yeah yeah, got some parts missing near the end of the spoiler, it's late and I'm kinda lazy to type it out. So sue me.
The next morning when the two recovered, they found themselves to be okay, but the car was a wreck and the unfortunate spooky lady's body was nowhere to be seen. The cops came and the hubby comforted the wife, and he kept telling her that she was hallucinating because she was tired from the trip.
At Tokyo, the wife and hubby enjoyed a Nippon life in a photo studio given by the model agency company. The hubby gave the wife the developed pics of them pak toing at Mt. Fuji, and the wife noticed some photoshopped looking smoky apparitions in all of them. She was wtfbbq but ignored them, thinking it was the camera or the lighting 's problem or something. That night the two had dinner with the hubby's 2 good buddies working for the same agency. After kampaiiang they asked the kawaii waitress to take a group pic, but the waitress dropped the expensive camera (the model Gerain is using) and got the shock of her life. The group, wtfbbqed from the incident, just shrugged it off and went home. At their new home cum studio, the couple slept and got expectedly bad dreams about the roadkilled lady.
The next morning again, the hubby woke up with a bad neck-shoulder pain and the wife figuratively told him about her bad dreams. Again the hubby just brushed the issue away and both of them enjoyed the day themselves. The wife explored the streets of Tokyo while the hubby was busy with his work (both activities involved cameras). When both of them came home the hubby was furious with his work. All of his photos were spoiled by some bad lighting. The wife just let him be and showed the housekeeper (she's smoking hot :P) her pics of the day. The housekeeper noticed all the wife's pics to have 'spirits' (again some more photoshopped looking apparitions). The housekeeper told the wife to meet the housekeeper's ex- boyfriend who was into spirit photography, and the wife agreed.
The next morning (again), the wife went to the housekeeper's ex-boyfriend's horror magazine studio. There she got a tutorial about spirit photography from Ando (yesh, the ex-bf is Ando from Heroes! Sad to say I didn't get his name in the movie). Ando told her to go meet a medium for some info on her spooky photoshopped pics, which she took into consideration. Meanwhile at home the hubby was developing pics from his work in his red room and predictably, he got played around by his wife at his back. Then he got a call from his real wife, which caused him to drop the phone and decided to check the red room to find out who was fondling him earlier. Moments later he WTFBBQed and the wife heard his scream over the phone, causing her to run back to their home cum studio. Upon reaching home the wife found the hubby sitting on an office chair facing the window. Yada yada yada turned the chair around then WTFBBQ! moment and hey, the hubby was okay but he looked like he just got scared the $#!+ out of him. Both agreed to see the medium to see what this was all about.
So they went to the medium's apartment and consulted him. The medium dude can only speak Nippon, so the hubby became the middle man to translate whatever that was needed to be said (no subtitle for anything Nippon in the movie). The medium got a feel of the pics and yelled out some profanities in Nippon, which the hubby didn't want to translate and the wife was blurred and wtfbbqed. The hubby said it was all bullshit and dragged the wife away from the place.
From there onwards the wife suspected something was up, so she went on investigating. With the guidance of the spirits in the pics, she found out that a female employee in the agency was working as a translator for her hubby back before they were married. To make things seriously short, the hubby and the translator was *ahem-ahem* but the translator's dad did not approve their relationship. Thus when the dad died, the translator became so attached and obsessed with the hubby. The hubby find this disturbing and he didn't love her that much at all, so he and his two friends mentioned earlier did *ahem ahem*, took photos of it so that they could use it to blackmail the translator. But sadly to say the translator was traumatized by the incident and committed suicide. She was the apparitions appearing in all the pics. And she has some unfinished business...
One by one the hubby's friends got killed in gorily awesome ways and the hubby was next. Back at the home cum studio, the wife found out about the *ahem ahem* and figured out the spirit was really trying to tell her how sick the hubby really was. The wife left the hubby for good, and the hubby was left enraged with the spirit. He snapped photos with his Polaroid to find his old lover and settle the score. In the end he found her, in a snapshot where she was sitting on his shoulder (hence explains his neck-shoulder pain all these times). So the hubby grabbed some cables from the photography equipments and tried to fry the spirit with 1600 megavolt of electricity. But he failed and ended up in the special ward, wtfbbqed and depressed like any typical emo. The screen zooms away to the reflection on the ward's door, showing the translator superhugging the hubby... END
HAM'S RANT:
Seen everything. Predictably scary things and scenes, all the concepts were used in the Grudge and the Ring (all ang mo version), so basically it's kinda "not fresh". But it's not that fresh to start with since it's just a westernized copy of the original movie. The original Thai version of the movie was the $#!+HAM'S RAVE:
Still managed to 0__0 me at my seat. $#!+ I got goosebumps just by typing this review. And the actress for the translator was pretty too unlike most movies of the same genre. A good horror movie for couples, since it conveys a good message.
P/S: Yeah yeah, got some parts missing near the end of the spoiler, it's late and I'm kinda lazy to type it out. So sue me.
4 comments:
That's the movie originally from the thai right? COs my thai friend have been mention about a good thai horror movie been make into english version and tell me it's a must watch, after reading the spoiler - well really typical story haha, easily predict type - so not bad is it, got time go watch... btw where do u usually dl all your movie?
yes, its the same movie ur fren mentioned. not bad not bad, there are two types of horror movies:
#1. One of those movie that makes you go holy $#!+!!!! wtfbbq then you laughed about it
#2. The movie that makes you go O___o then keeps you sleeping wif the lights on for 2-3 days
Sadly this one is type #1, or less becoz seen all the same concept used up in other movies b4.
Um i think there's this link i gave u b4: phazeddl.com (ignore the XXX ads, but evything is there, owh there's trojandownloader there, so make sure ur antivirus is to the max setting). Then the second choice is the slow torrent. But for horror movies and the big blockbusters I go watch at the cinemas, for kicks :p
@_@ trojan... compare to horror movie trojan give me much more unpleasant feeling! slow torrent? u mean the name or the dl is slower for that site?
lol no... all torrents are known to be slow lately (ok not lately, since a few months/ year ago).... torrent websites hef a lot of names, ref to 11/4 post ^^
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