PLOT: A newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job- a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they experience a car accident, leading to the death of a young local girl. Upon regaining consciousness, they find no trace of her body. the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life and Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his fashion shoot photographs. Jane believes that the blurs are actually spirit photography of the dead girl who they hit on the road, and that she may be seeking vengeance. (taken from imdb.com)

ANALYSIS: SHUTTER left me unsettled after I saw the original. The climatic scene gave a whole new meaning to pain on the neck. Now it has been remade for the US market and it is a faithful remake. It isn't as terrifying as the original, but it does hold it's own. The remake does take the basic elements of the original and runs with it. The remake does take the concept of spirit photogarphy a little farther by having digital photographs being effected. Like the original, the remake does manipulate the audience a little bit. However, I think the remake and the original are more frightening once you watch it again whether it is the original on a second viewing or the remake after seeing the original first. Also the SHUTTER remake is better than the tepid ONE MISSED CALL remake.

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