Shutter (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Shutter |
| Original title | ชัตเตอร์ กด ติด วิญญาณ |
| Country of production | Thailand |
| original language | Thai |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Banjong Pisanthanakun , Parkpoom Wongpoom |
| script | Parkpoom Wongpoom, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Sophon Sakdapisit |
| production | Yodphet Sudsawad |
| music | Chatchai Pongprapaphan |
| camera | Niramon Ross |
| cut |
Manop Boonwipas , Lee Chatametikool |
| occupation | |
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Shutter ( Thai ชัตเตอร์ กด ติด วิญญาณ ) is a 2004 Thai horror film and the directorial debut of Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom .
In 2007, the Tamil film Sivi was a remake of the Thai film production. Another offshoot, the US-American production Shutter - You See You by director Masayuki Ochiai , was released in 2008 with Rachael Taylor and Joshua Jackson in the leading roles.
action
The photographer Tun and his attractive girlfriend Jane are on their way home after a wedding reception that was also attended by some of Tun's old college friends. While driving home, Jane, who is briefly distracted by Tun, runs over a young woman until she herself comes to a standstill with her car on a billboard. The accident victim remains motionless on the street, and Jane tries to rush to her help, but the drunk Do panic and persuade his lover to run away .
The two keep the incident quiet until a few days later, during a commissioned work, Tun notices the ghostly presence of the dead girl, which later also shows up in strange shadows and blurred, pale faces on his positives . To his girlfriend Jane, since the traffic accident under sleep suffers, and to calm himself, the couple to return to the scene decides. Here the two learn that there was neither a corpse nor a police record of a car accident at the time of the crime. Do, who is plagued by mysterious neck pain, and Jane then do research to fathom the visions or the spirit of the girl whose anger the couple appears to be haunted. As these phenomena pile up, Tun's friends experience a series of inexplicable suicides , all related to the young girl whom Jane identifies as "Natre". Natre, who had a secret love affair with Tun and did not deal with the breakup properly, studied in Bangkok at the same university as Tun, but was considered an outsider. To find out more about her, the couple visits Natre's childhood home away from Bangkok , but only finds her lifeless body, which is already in an advanced stage of decay. They learn from the visibly upset mother that her daughter once returned from Bangkok completely changed and later committed suicide. However, due to the mother's psychological instability, there was never a funeral. Believing that this could end the sinister events, Jane and Tun see to it that a cremation is arranged.
After the cremation , while rummaging through Tun's apartment, Jane finds some hidden negative films documenting the mistreatment and rape of Natter by Tun's friends - those friends who have already committed suicide. Do, they reveal at the same time as a liar who did not come to the aid of his ex-lover Natre. It even turns out that he is the creator of the photos. Jane then separates from Tun, who is now completely alone and photographs his living area - in search of his ghost. At the end of the film, on a Polaroid recording, he discovers Natre's ghost sitting on his shoulders and causing neck pain, falls out of the window of his apartment and finds himself seriously injured in the hospital. In the last shot of the film, Jane visits the deformed activity, which is still under a shadow.
Reviews
“Horror film with numerous genre borrowings, especially in the style-defining Japanese“ Ring ”series. The ghost story is spiced up with some surprising ideas and convinces with an independent, skilfully constructed book and good actors. "
Web links
- Shutter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shutter in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ shutter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .