First off, let me say I believe I'm the victim of being too hyped up for this film. You know how someone says, "You want to hear a hilarious joke?" Then when you hear the joke it's not as funny as if they just would have told you the joke first.



Anticipation ruins jokes just as it does horror films. I heard from numerous people this was one of the scariest films out of Asia and sadly I have to beg to differ. Although in all fairness, I guess by default, I would have to say it's the scariest out of Thailand (as no others come to mind). I'm just getting tired of seeing the same creepy-crawly Ringu girl in every film as of late.



All ranting aside, I wont bother to create another plot synopsis as many other reviewers have already done that part. I'll be brief as I don't want the viewer to anticipate any scenes.



Downsides-

Poor picture quality (reminiscent of a bad soap opera episode).

Not enough effective lighting (personally I like my horror films to have that generally dark feel to them).

Much like this one, too many films are capitalizing off of the creepy Ringu-girl.

Fairly predictable but definitely not 100% predictable.



Upsides-

Decent plot (with exception to the *main "picture"* scene, that didn't make sense to me).

Some genuinely good creep-outs.

I really liked the general idea of the movie.

The closing scene was very good.



Overall, "Shutter" was a decent movie. I never got bored or felt that the film was dragging on. It may have been better had I not expected so much. It's not that "Shutter" was a bad film, it just wasn't fantastic. If I were going to recommend an Asian horror, I'd still have to say the original Pulse is my favorite.