Rating: 1/2 Pulse

Rated PG-13

Yet another Asian fright film to add to the list of numerous Hollywood remakes. Shutter is produced by the same people behind the American versions of The Grudge and The Ring. And sitting through this is exactly like sitting in front of one of those. Or both. There is nothing new or different, in fact, the “scary” scenes are often direct replicas from the aforementioned titles.

There is very little to fill a film review when there is nothing interesting to write about. The scenery is quite nice. In fact, the city of Tokyo itself is probably the most interesting aspect of Shutter, which is about a “shutter-bug,” a man who is a photographer. The Ring involved a video tape, this one involves photos. Lots and lots of photos. The photographer is actually being haunted by the ghost of a young Asian intern he and his two friends once slipped a drug to for their own sexual kicks and inadvertently killed. So she summarily exacts revenge on all three from beyond the grave.

Even the sets seem to have been stolen from The Grudge. I like to joke that maybe this movie was made entirely in an editing room somewhere.

Everything in the movie is plagiarized. The plot is the exact same as Stephen King’s book “Bag of Bones,” with only a few irrelevant changes.

To write about or read about this movie any further would be an exercise in futility.