Monday, October 5, 2009

Shutter by Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom

Category: Non-English

If you can get out of the director's names you are in for a treat, the only problem with the Ghosts who seek revenge in such films is that they almost tend to look the same. The same creepy look from the Ring, the only way it probably works is because there's not much screen time otherwise devoted to such faces!

The movie has a familiar premise where a scorned lover returns to seek revenge and in the process ends up taking a few unexpected lives! In this case our happy photographer and his girlfriend have a calm life until a few of his best friends from school commit suicide and before that the happy couple ran over a girl! How are these two incidents linked? Find out.

The only real scary part of the film was when it's finally revealed why our hero had a nagging neck ache through the entire film. It gives you the goose bumps, I assure you.

The film isn't bad and passable but at places but it's a little too slow paced and the thrills aren't enough, until the very fag end of the film.

Recommendation level: 1.5/5 - Seen better horror films, this week will be South East Asian cinema week!

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