Thai film-makers Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom hop onto the popular Asian horror movie "sub-genre" of vengeful scary long-haired ghost girls in the spooky slow-burn thriller Shutter.
After a fatal hit-and-run accident, a young couple begins seeing ghostly images in all their photographs and the wiggins ensue.
It examines the rarely explored topic of spirit photography and it's authenticity but that's about all that really generates any sort of lasting interest. The film wears it's influences on it's sleeves and makes no attempt to really separate itself from them either, so much that the story, atmosphere, actions and scares are all predictably tiresome. Fortunately the strong acting and steady pacing help it move along to the final 10 minutes that payoff quite nicely compared to the rest of this snoozefest.
After a fatal hit-and-run accident, a young couple begins seeing ghostly images in all their photographs and the wiggins ensue.
It examines the rarely explored topic of spirit photography and it's authenticity but that's about all that really generates any sort of lasting interest. The film wears it's influences on it's sleeves and makes no attempt to really separate itself from them either, so much that the story, atmosphere, actions and scares are all predictably tiresome. Fortunately the strong acting and steady pacing help it move along to the final 10 minutes that payoff quite nicely compared to the rest of this snoozefest.
2 empty rolls of toilet paper out of 5
