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Shutter (2008) -- This is the first theatrical trailer for Shutter, directed by Masayuki Ochiai.
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Shutter (2008) -- Interview: Joshua Jackson "On working with a Japanese director"
Shutter (2008) -- A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

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Overview

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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Luke Dawson (screenplay)
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Release Date:
21 March 2008 (USA) more
Tagline:
The most terrifying images are the ones that are real. more
Plot:
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved. full summary | full synopsis
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Very scary for only being PG-13 more (120 total)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Joshua Jackson ... Benjamin Shaw

Rachael Taylor ... Jane Shaw
Megumi Okina ... Megumi Tanaka

David Denman ... Bruno

John Hensley ... Adam

Maya Hazen ... Seiko Nakamura

James Kyson Lee ... Ritsuo
Yoshiko Miyazaki ... Akiko
Kei Yamamoto ... Murase

Daisy Betts ... Natasha

Adrienne Pickering ... Megan
Pascal Morineau ... Wedding Photographer
Masaki Ota ... Police Officer #1
Heideru Tatsuo ... Police Officer #2
Eri Otoguro ... Yoko
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for terror, disturbing images, sexual content and language.
Runtime:
85 min | USA:90 min (unrated version)
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Not screened for critics. more
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Factual errors: While in the honeymoon cabin, the camera Ben is using is clearly a medium format camera. Later however, when they are looking at the pictures Seiko dropped off, the negatives attached to the envelope are 35mm negatives. more
Movie Connections:
Remake of Shutter (2004/II) more
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In a War more

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Is it true that watching "Shutter" can bring on epileptic seizures?
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28 out of 53 people found the following comment useful.
Very scary for only being PG-13, 9 April 2008
7/10
Author: robertallenandersonjr from United States

Shutter was a pretty decent movie. The movie was pretty predictable. People will probably not like this movie because of the ending. The thing that people need to realize is that when they are going to see a movie like this you know what you are going to get out of it. I hate it when people keep cutting down movies like this, such as One Missed Call and The Eye. In these kind of movies the ending is pretty predictable, its pretty much going to leave you hanging. Thats why I think people need to understand you can't hate a movie because of the ending. I thought that their was so much more to the story than just spirit photography. It explains why its happening to the people that are on their honey moon. It seems like in these kind of movies the story explains a lot more near the end. They kept doing many flash backs in this movie as well. That's when they were explaining the story a lot. This was actually pretty creepy, freightning, and scary all at the same time. It had a ton of sudden pop out right at your face scenes. Im sure that when you see this you will jump many times. I thought that it could have been a little bit better. I liked the idea of having it be two newly married couples that this spirit photography is happening to. I liked how the wife was fighting the ghosts the whole movie. The acting was surprisingly really good I thought. The wife in this played by Rachael Taylor did such a great job playing all the scared parts and emotional parts. Her husband played by Joshua Jackson did a great job as well. Some of the visuals were pretty sweet. They had a lot of nice camera shots of the whole city in Tokyo. After some of the people left the theater I heard them say I want my money back. This movie was trying to prove to you that making fun of people and treating them like crap at a younger age will come back to haunt you. Overall this was a decent movie with some good scares. I would go see this at the cheap show or only pay five dollars.

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