Shutter: Ghostly Figures

Director: Masyuki Ochiai
Writer: Luke Dawson
Producers: Doug Davison,Takashige Ichise, Roy Lee
Starring: Joshua Jackson(Benjamin Shaw), Rachael Taylor(Jane Shaw), Megumi Okina(Megumi Tanaka), David Denman(Bruno), John Hensley(Adam), Maya Hazen(Seiko) IMDb.Rated-PG13.

While driving on a dark road Benjamin and Jane accidentally run over a young woman, but after the police complete a thorough search no traces of the young woman can be found. The couple subsequently move to Tokyo on account of Ben's work as a photographer. Jane begins to notice some the pictures her and Benjamin took together are marred with a white cloud like streak, and this also applies to some of the pictures taken from Benjamin's photo shoots. In one instance, Benjamin's assistant(Seiko) noticed the streak on the pictures and tells Jane of "spirit photography", and recommends that she should see her former boyfriend who owns a spirit photography magazine company. Seiko's former boyfriend refers Jane to a local spiritual medium which Jane and Benjamin end up consulting after they both saw the ghost of the young woman they ran over.

During the film I struggled quite considerably to sustain a measure of interest. The film was entertaining intermittently because the sequence of events within the film were ineffectual in terms of potency. The supposed frightful scenes were not frightful enough and that left me seeking to be frightened. In absence of suspense there were no special effects to tickle the mind into amusement, but admittedly the pace of the plot was descent, but that still did not save the impotence of the film, for the horror element did not rise to the occasion. The death scenes were not extraordinary, and they were rather platitudinous. At minimum a film must be entertaining but this film was not so entertaining in my opinion. Shutter is small screen entertainment, and my kind heart will grade it a D+. Stay tuned, Movieporium.blogspot.com.