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90. Shutter (2008) (Starz)

I really wanted to watch the original first to see if it was actually any good, but it's only on Vudu and I'm not getting that. So I settled for just watching this one.

Shutter is about a newly married couple that goes to Japan on their honeymoon. But when they nearly run over a girl, they begin seeing her spirit in photographs they take.

God damnit this movie is so bad. I forgot almost everything about it, but I wanted to watch some of that schlocky 2000's horror. This fit the bill and then some.

It's a monumentally boring movie for the most part. Some hallucinations and stuff. Just a random spirit in a photograph. Big whoop. Not scary. It stars Joshua Jackson from Dawson's Creek and Rachael Taylor from Jessica Jones and they do I fine job given the quality of film they're in. But this movie is so unbearably boring for the majority of it.

That's maybe one or two legitimately alright scenes but the rest kinda sucks. The ending scene is pretty solid for what it is? I wouldn't be surprised if it was lifted wholesale from the original though. But the motivation and reveal of it all was so absurd that I was a little stunned at first. This is absolutely a 2008 movie handled with all of the grace of it.

Content warning: sexual assault In order to get this girl to break up with him, he and his two friends decide to RAPE HER and then take pictures of it and say they didn't know how else to get her to leave him alone. And the scene they show is like, corny as hell and so bizarre for two dudes about to molest a girl and I was just stunned by the brazen way they did it.

There's a few good scenes, but otherwise it's just such a boring film with a dull idea behind it and I am just so curious if it's a case of Hollywood making it worse or not. Don't recommend. Very bad movie.

Rating: 2/10