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“And in much more real sense, she had never left and she won’t ever”
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Movie’s Name - Shutter (2008)
Written By - Luke Dawson
Directed By - Masayuki Ochiai
Duration - 86 minutes
Genre - Suspense, horror
Language - English, Japanese
Rating - 18+ (Violence, sexual content, foul language, drug)
Cast - Rachael Taylor as ‘Jane’, Joshua Jackson as ‘Benjamin’, Megumi Okina as ‘Megumi’, David Denman as ‘Bruno’, John Hensley as ‘Adam’.
Synopsis - Spoiler alert!
A beautiful couple, Jane and Ben embark on the journey of their new life by getting married to each other. Both are soon found travelling to Tokyo, where Ben has his greatest dream photography assignment waiting for him.
Unfortunately, driving towards their dream, they meet a nightmare that will turn their life upside down. Jane accidentally hits a girl on the road and hits her car in the woods out of panicking and they both become unconscious due to the strong jerk.
Ben calls the police but to their surprise no dead or injured body is ever found on the hit spot. Both continue to Tokyo and have their first ‘honeymoon memories ‘ clicked although Jane is disturbed that she might have taken someone’s life but Ben convinces her to forget everything as that was probably just an illusion.
Both enjoy their married life but suddenly their happiness turns into a freaking chain of unnatural incidents when they both experience an intangible entity following them. Jane amidst all this excitingly watches her snaps with Ben but finds an unusual appearance in them.
Later it turns out to be a paranormal entity that is stuck with them and appears in every single click and she thinks of the woman from the road as that entity.
The plot takes a whole new turn when the spirit is revealed as Ben’s Ex-girlfriend, Megumi, to Jane and they both visit her house and find her dead body there which is cremated the next day.
But the night is the most dreadful night ever for them as Megumi, after killing Ben’s friends, Bruno and Adam, tries to take Ben with her before her cremation but Jane’s courage saves his life.
The couple returns from Tokyo and everything is normal until Jane comes across something that makes her regret not listening to Megumi’s spirit. The whole story ends on an astonishing note where the evil turns out to be the real victim and the so called innocents are revealed as the real demons.
About the Movie
‘Shutter’ (2008) is a remake of Thai movie of the same name, ‘Shutter’ (2004) portraying the incidents in the life of Jane and Ben when they start noticing a cloudy blurs in every photograph clicked by him which Jane identifies as the girl that they killed in the road accident.
From the producers of ‘The Ring’ and ‘The Grudge’, this movie maintains and in fact raises the level of American Supernatural movies. ‘Shutter’ is really something that totally gives the viewers some really nerve-racking experiences with the power of perfect and aptly balanced visuals that are neither too wretched and nor too extremely fictional.
Although it didn’t get great reviews from the critics, the movie was able to secure the third highest collecting movie soon after its release. Against a budget of $8 million, it grossed $48 million making it a great success and gained a lot of popularity both as criticism and appreciation ironically.
The Snapshot Section
Picture Credits: 45 worlds
Wedding photos- the most memorable and cherished one that brings a smile to your face but not for Jane and Ben.
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The moment when a happily married life turned into a creepy one.
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The traces from your past never really leaves you! They are stuck somewhere within and you won't get rid of them so easily as you think you can.
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What if you enter a house to meet someone and find them having tea this way! Pretty horrifying right?
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"If someone promises you to stay with you forever whether they are alive or not, it feels all rosy but what if they did really mean it?"
Psychological analysis
‘Shutter’ puts forth many variants of human personality including the positive and negative ones in a perfect balanced way. It highlights the fact that you have to pay for your deeds whether you want it or not.
It also brings a mind-stirring thought that you cannot simply run away from the sins of your past. The best way to make peace with it is to accept it and reimburse for the same.
This movie shows the importance of the transparency and honesty that is the foundation of any relationship and especially marriage.
Jane and Ben go through trauma- causing experience because of the concealment of one of the biggest truths of his life.
Spine-chilling Quotes from ‘Shutter’
“This is what you wanted, right? You and me…together forever”
“You better hurry up if you're gonna get this thing consummated.”
The Bottom line
‘Shutter’ is a great suspense and horror movie that indulges you into the spookiness layer by layer. It has great dialogues that are neither too fictional nor exaggerated but are kept as realistic as they can be. The visuals of the ghosts and the special effects are just apt to scare you and are really not the unrealistic ones.
The movie is structured in a great way and keeps to entertain you till the end. It moves at the correct pace and is really successful to bring your eyeballs out with sudden scary moments.
Preferable for
All the 18 above audience who really love realistic,simple horror movies with suspense and subtle looking ghosts but terrifying scenes.
Review in one sentence: A fresh innovative horror movie blended with mind-blowing suspense.
My ratings for the movie - 4.7/5
You can also stream it easily on - Amazon Prime Videos
Written By - Palak Chauhan
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