Review of Shutter (2004) by Ethan C — 10 Jul 2011
I'm not usually a big fan of these 'scary Asian women with long black hair who haunt people for something they did' horror movies. I just find them boring and uninteresting a lot of the times.
Sure it relies mostly on atmosphere for its scares but, again, I just find them uninteresting. There's also the fact that this movie was remade into a HORRENDOUS American movie. But all in all, I thought this movie was a actually pretty damn good.
It had some pretty creepy and tense moments, which is really what these movies are all about, and this one does a good job at that. Granted, jump scares are pretty easy to do and anyone can do them. Now, onto the thing that I shat on in the remake, the twist/reveal that the main character's neck pain is caused by the ghost that's on top of him.
On paper, this isn't a bad twist, it actually makes sense in the movie, as opposed to M Night Shyamalan movies, whose twists are there just for the fuck of it. Visually though, it looked terrible in execution.
I wouldn't have had this hatred for the twist in the remake if the movie wasn't so fucking bad. But it made a terrible movie into one of the worst movies of that year. Maybe it's a double standard, but I did not hate the twist in this movie.
I was expecting it, so that may have had something to do with it as well, but it didn't bother me. But yea, this is a pretty good horror movie, which is more than I can say for this genre.
This review of Shutter (2004) was written by Ethan C on 10 Jul 2011.
Shutter has generally received positive reviews.
Was this review helpful?
