There's a certain fashionable trait when it comes to J-Horror remakes. Bumps in the night, disturbing images and the most famous of all that same scary Japanese girl with the black hair covering her face. So it's no surprise that this latest revamp of the Korean chiller looks exactly the same ass all the ones that have been before. Only worse. Lacks the jump out of the seat horror of The Grudge, without the stunning atmosphere of the ring. No shutter takes its place in front of the Disaster of a film "One Missed Call" so bad you'd rather that very girl was haunting you simply to end the nightmare that is "Shutter" And yet with such a shimmering premise and an original that is remarkable at creating up scares it's a mystery why this did do too well. With One missed Call it was all out in the open. What with the Japanese original being far from brilliant. But here we have a brilliant premise, a decent cast and room for improvement. And yet it still managed to flop. Congratulation Hollywood you've done it again.
For photographer Ben and his new wife Jane, his new assignment--a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo--was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan.
But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit with the car. Shaken by the accident and by the girl's disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo, where Ben begins his glamorous assignment. Having worked in Japan before and fluent in the language, Ben is comfortable there, and he eagerly reunites with old friends and colleagues.
Jane, a newcomer to the city, feels very much like a stranger in a strange land as she makes tentative, unsettling forays through the city. Ben, meanwhile, has discovered mysterious white blurs--eerily evocative of a human form--that have materialized on an entire day's work from the expensive photo shoot. Jane's concerns escalate as she believes the blurs in Ben's photos are the dead girl from the road, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die.
In all its merely an uninspired, freightless mess that nether inspires, incites of scares ultimately. Its half baked cliqued trash that deserves the be discarded as soon as possible.
My final verdict? Avoid at all costs. Nobody will enjoy this and on the list of bad J-Horror this ranks second last behind the dreadful One Missed Call. The movies never seemed to have one full complete plot that lasted from the start to the end. Everything happened so fast, and was insanely unrealistic. It wasn't entertaining, scary, or interesting. "A classic dud."
For photographer Ben and his new wife Jane, his new assignment--a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo--was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan.
But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit with the car. Shaken by the accident and by the girl's disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo, where Ben begins his glamorous assignment. Having worked in Japan before and fluent in the language, Ben is comfortable there, and he eagerly reunites with old friends and colleagues.
Jane, a newcomer to the city, feels very much like a stranger in a strange land as she makes tentative, unsettling forays through the city. Ben, meanwhile, has discovered mysterious white blurs--eerily evocative of a human form--that have materialized on an entire day's work from the expensive photo shoot. Jane's concerns escalate as she believes the blurs in Ben's photos are the dead girl from the road, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die.
In all its merely an uninspired, freightless mess that nether inspires, incites of scares ultimately. Its half baked cliqued trash that deserves the be discarded as soon as possible.
My final verdict? Avoid at all costs. Nobody will enjoy this and on the list of bad J-Horror this ranks second last behind the dreadful One Missed Call. The movies never seemed to have one full complete plot that lasted from the start to the end. Everything happened so fast, and was insanely unrealistic. It wasn't entertaining, scary, or interesting. "A classic dud."