Dreadfully Boring

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This was cheesy, for sure. I admire the traditional Japanese cultures and such within the movie but boy was this cheesy. Shutter has a good premise, and when it was released in 2008, it was probably considered heavily scary. Now, it's more of a heart pounded than a "I'm never gonna sleep for a while". The premise was a really good one, it's intrigued me for a few years, and maybe I amped it up too much for myself. I was really disappointed when watching this.The acting is well done. The setting is good, and the scares are set up quite well.. This one is suspenseful, and it made me sit on the edge of my seat. But it just seemed too much. The glare in a photo and then suddenly a spirit appears in them. It took a little too long to build up, and by the time the real horror started, I wasn't fully immersed, so it really didn't go down too well for me. The ending was a real twist, and I was as shocked as Jane was on screen. It was a really good twist and I cringed away really badly and was nibbling on my lip as much as was possible.The ending of the movie as a whole, I found it way too cringey. A flapping door, a window reflection – it all just seemed a bit too cliché. The acting was done really well, as I said before. Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor did brilliant jobs at acting in this, but the star of the film was definitely Megumi Okina. She plays our spirit and I definitely want to see her in more things, and I will be watching through her filmography for sure. She did amazingly and she did really creep me out and gave me goosebumps. It was a good horror movie, it had some really good aspects, but at the end of it all, it ended up a total cringe fest, which really put me off the movie.

A tale of misery and betrayal witnessed in manifolds; A woman agonized by some men returns for revenge and claims the lives that took hers. The film offers several instances that are riveting and startling enough to make you shudder at times, especially teens I guess as most of the people in my theater hall were young adults and cringing. Definitely not those who are more than familiar with predictable Horror sequences and adult audiences who squint their eyes at the thump of abrupt background din, which seems to have become mandatory in chilling scenes these days. But the way the film is presented makes you yawn sporadically a couple of times, or maybe it was just my short 6 hour night nap. None of the deaths are meticulous enough to demand positive reviews, except the climax with Joshua Jackson, in which he doesn't die but becomes deranged. Overall a good performance by Rachel Taylor, but still not sufficient to provide the film an edge-of-the-seat fright tag. Could have been made better. Could have been skipped. 5 out of 10. Right there in the middle.

I do not particularly like Hollywood remakes of Asian films, especially Asian horror films, as Hollywood tends to sacrifice subtlety with shock tactics.However, this is a passable remake. It mostly keeps to the original storyline, and while some suspense is lost, it is still enjoyable.The acting is a little over the top though. The original Thai actors are able to convey fear and disgust almost effortlessly, but the American version seems to need its stars to over-emote to convey the same feelings.The surprise reveal at the end however, is still preserved, thank goodness.(Sorry if I keep comparing versions, but since I usually watch the original versions first, I can't help comparing the Hollywood versions to the ones I watched earlier.)

The first hour of Shutter is down-right boring. Nothing happens except from the car-crash and a few short images of Megumi, the girl they hit with their car.But the last 30 minutes are horror at its best. The actress playing Megumi, who is also named Megumi in real life, but with a different last name that they hit are truly scary looking. And there are many disturbing images that will stay with me for a while after watching this movie.The ending is really creepy.The only thing that is a let down is the acting of Rachael Taylor. She is never convincing and the way she leaves her husband before he finds out the truth about him and Megumi, would never happen in real life.Also considering what he did to Megumi it seems strange he kept not only the camera she gave him, but also the memory-card with the photos that could send him to jail. But that was necessary for the ending.But that's okay, considering the scares are really good.