Shutter

Theatrical Release Date: 2008 03 21 (USA)

UPC: 024543523901

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations]

Summary: Infection director Masayuki Ochiai takes the helm for this remake of the 2004 horror hit from Thailand concerning a photographer and his girlfriend who are involved in a tragic auto accident, and subsequently begin to notice ghostly figures in the backgrounds of their pictures. Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor star in this supernatural frightener. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Horror

Features: Commentary by Production Executive Alex Sundell, Screenwriter Luke Dawson and Actress Rachael Taylor
A Ghost in the Lens featurette
A Cultural Divide: Shooting in Japan Featurette
The Director: Masayuki Ochiai featurette
A Conversation with Luke Dawson featurette
A History of Spirit Photography featurette
Create your own Phantom photo
The Hunt for the Haunt: Tools and Tips for Ghost Hunting featurette
Fox Movie Channel presents In Character With Joshua Jackson
Japanese Spirit photography videos
Alternate and deleted scenes, including alternate ending

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Shutter

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 07/15/2008

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DTS Digital Theater Systems, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 89 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Derek Armstrong

Ghostly images appearing in pictures are nothing new. Neither are long-haired, sepulchral Japanese women dressed in white, moving slowly and looking ominous (see The Grudge). Yet Masayuki Ochiai's Shutter repackages these tired horror tropes into something effectively chilling, despite the fact that it isn't the least bit new or inventive. Shutter feels like the latest in a trend that's been bled dry, namely, Hollywood remaking Japanese horror movies -- yet it's actually an update of a Thai film, directed by a Japanese director, set in Japan and featuring American actors. This idiom is certainly familiar enough, but setting Shutter apart is its relatively clean and straightforward script. Neither huge logical leaps nor clarifications of who's who/what's happening, are necessary to wade through its brisk 85 minutes, which leaves Ochiai free to concentrate on his eerie set pieces. Jaded viewers may find themselves embarrassed to be producing such a reaction, considering Shutter's massive debt to other films, but the fact remains -- these fleeting images in the "spirit photos" do leave a viewer feeling disquieted, and sometimes downright spooked. When the spirit, a lonely girl who stalked her unrequited love (Joshua Jackson), manifests herself physically, it's a bit more clearly recognizable as a hackneyed theft from the Grudge and Ring movies. But even if he isn't reinventing the wheel, Ochiai utilizes his familiar images as well as possible given our familiarity with them -- and thereby underscores what made them unsettling in the first place. Shutter will never be confused for anything more than an anonymous genre film with a generic title, but it's slightly less anonymous and generic than it could have been, which makes it worth recommending on some level -- especially relative to the other anonymous and generic options out there. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Takashige Ichise  Producer 
Arnon Milchan  Executive Producer 
Nathan Barr  Composer (Music Score) 
Masayuki Ochiai  Director 
Doug Davison  Producer 
Roy Lee  Producer 
Sonny Mallhi  Executive Producer 
Luke Dawson  Screenwriter 
Gloria Fan  Executive Producer 
Joshua Jackson  Actor 
Megumi Okina  Actor 
David Denman  Actor 
John Hensley  Actor 
Maya Hazen  Actor 
James Kyson Lee  Actor 
Yoshiko Miyazaki  Actor 
Kei Yamamoto  Actor 
Daisy Betts  Actor 
Adrienne Pickering  Actor 
Pascal Morineau  Actor 
Masaki Ota  Actor 
Hederu Tatsuo  Actor 
Eri Otoguro  Actor 
Rina Matsuki  Actor 
Tomotaka Kanzaki  Actor 
Jun Yakushiji  Actor 
Emi Tamura  Actor 
Polina Kononova  Actor 
Yulia Ryzhova  Actor 
Mika Kinose  Actor 
Masakazu Nagakura  Actor 
Shinji Furukawa  Actor 
Maria Takagi  Actor 
Alessandra  Actor 
Katrina B.  Actor 
Tanya  Actor 
Takao Toji  Actor 
Shizuka Fujimoto  Actor 
Yutaka Mishima  Actor 
Maiko Asano  Actor 
Rei Sato  Actor 
Homare Hasegawa  Actor 
Kei Hirosawa  Actor 
Koichi Kase  Actor 
Yasuke Kawarada  Actor 
Ayuko Koyama  Actor 
Konomi Moriyama  Actor 
Akira Sato  Actor 
Miyako Yamaguchi  Actor 
Runa Kozuka  Actor 
Natsuki  Actor 
Gen Takatsuka  Actor 
Natalia Tsvetkova  Actor 
Asya  Actor 
Graziela  Actor 
Ami Fujimoto  Actor 
Miki Hirono  Actor 
Ingrid  Actor 
Ananda  Actor 
Emiko Kondo  Actor 
Liana  Actor 
Tsukasa Minami  Actor 
Asami Momose  Actor 
Nadia  Actor 
Nadiya  Actor 
Natsue Orikawa  Actor 
Zoya  Actor 
Julia G.  Actor 
Ira M.  Actor 
Natalia Si  Actor 
Rachael Taylor  Actor 
Akihiko Ando  Actor 
Olga Alex  Actor 
Keisuke Nakajima  Actor 
Mark Chinnery  Actor 
Albert Smith  Actor 
Chie Yokomizo  Actor 
Natalia Mokienko  Actor 
Sho Nishino  Actor 
Shigeru Kurihara  Actor 
Michiyo Kaneko  Actor 
Yutaka Someya  Actor 
Yulia Kozyritskaya  Actor 
Irina Izhanova  Actor 
Akihiro Shimomura  Actor 
Shiho Okamoto  Actor 
Yutaka Satoh  Actor 
Andrew Durdey  Actor 
Erik  Actor 
Natalia Silkina  Actor 
Anna Zorina  Actor 

Country: USA