Review – Shutter (2004)

I’m fond of those rare moments when folks making a horror movie can start with a good concept and then do something good with it. The theme here is spirit photography, a subject with great potential to either provide genuine scares or descend into cliché-ridden nonsense. Fortunately the folks who made this Thai production chose the first path. To be sure, parts of this movie are hard to watch (particularly the sexual assault). But overall this supernatural revenge picture is an impressive assembly of coherent story, good acting and some genuine creepiness. Worth seeing