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Synopsis:
Ton, a 25-year-old photographer, found some flashes appearing
in his pictures that he had taken with his friends. The flashes
were all in weird forms. Some pictures appeared to have someone
standing in front of the camera blocking the whole scene,
when in reality no such thing happened during the pictures
were taken.
Ton
was skeptical until he enlarged the pictures and was convinced
that the light did look like a woman’s face.
Soon
after, his friends died mysteriously one by one. That’s
when he decides to find out for the history behind those haunting
pictures…
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Review:
When I first saw the poster for Shutter, I was impressed with
the collage of paranormal photographs. How would the directors
weave a tale with these seemly different and irrelevant paranormal
pictures? Will the concepts of using these paranormal pictures
become just another gimmick to showcase another boring Asian
horror flick?
Somehow first-time Directors, Banjong Pisonthanakun and Parkpoon
Wongpoom managed to pull together a horror flick that is both
scary and heart wrenching. Although many references or inspiration
drawn from recent top-notch horror films such as “The
Ring”, “Sixth Sense” and even Leslie Cheung’s
last film, “Inner Sense”, would be easy to pick
up by discerning audiences, “Shutter” still stands
out on its own as a one of Thailand’s best horror film
with its interesting storyline and fine acting from the actor
and actress (Ananda Everingham and Natthaweeranuch Thongmee).
Moments such as the discovery of supernatural sightings on
photographs for the first time and the revelation of the all
the hauntings in this film were satisfying enough to warrant
more in-depth investigation on your own. The horror flick
is brought closer to home by the fact that almost everyone
has taken or come across supernatural photos, therein emphasizing
the spookiness of it all.
I would not recommend this film to folks who are hardcore
horror fans as this film might be unable to offer any new
horror elements that have not been seen before. But if you
were as intrigued by the paranormal photographs as I was,
I would recommend that you catch this film when it’s
out in cinema.
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Rating:
Review by Richard Lim Jr
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