Shutter (Thai film)
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 The Thai movie poster. |
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| Directed by | Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom |
| Produced by | Yodphet Sudsawad |
| Written by | Banjong Pisanthanakun, Sopon Sukdapisit, Parkpoom Wongpoom |
| Starring | Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana |
| Music by | Chartchai Pongprapapan |
| Cinematography | Niramon Ross |
| Editing by | Manop Boonvipat, Lee Chatametikool |
| Distributed by | GMM |
| Release date(s) | September 9, 2004 |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Country | Thailand |
| Language | Thai |
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Shutter (Thai: ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ) is a 2004 horror film from Thailand. It focuses on mysterious images seen in developed pictures. It was directed by Banjong Pisonthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom.
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[edit] Plot
While driving towards home one night, Tun and Jane accidentally hit a woman who was attempting to cross the street. Shocked, Jane wants to look after the woman but to Tun's insistence, Jane had no choice but to speed towards home.
One day, while taking pictures of a graduating class, Tun notices a horrible-looking face standing between the graduates. As soon as he had it developed, he notices the faint image on the picture. While looking closer, the face turns in a flash, revealing a haunted face with a fierce gaze.
Jane, who's been sensing strange feelings like Tun, decides to investigate the school where the bizarre images took place. She soon discovers a photo of a girl with Tun's image on it.
Jane finds that the girl on the photo was Tun's ex-girlfriend, Natre. They pay a visit to Natre's hometown and stumble upon Natre's mom. Sensing a foul stench in Natre's house, they soon find Natre's decaying body in the bed. Tun and Jane persuade Natre's mother to have her remains be cremated.
Feeling that their troubles were over, Jane and Tun take some time off. But when Jane has her vacation photos developed, she sees a new visage in the photographs. Jane orders the pictures sequentially and sees that the visage is slowy crawling towards the bookshelf. Jane discovers the secret that Natre was raped by one of Tun's friends and the one taking pictures of the act was Tun himself. With disgust, Jane gets mad at Tun and starts to leave him.
Upon being left by Jane, Tun calls upon Natre and tells her to come out. However, the Polaroid takes a snapshot automatically and Tun sees the image. To his horror, he sees that Natre was actually with him all the time on his shoulders. Blinding him, Tun falls out from his apartment but luckily he survives. Jane visits him on the hospital where a reflection on the glass on the door reveals Natre still sitting on Tun's shoulders signifying that as long as Tun lives, nothing can keep them apart.
[edit] Cast
- Ananda Everingham as Tun
- Natthaweeranuch Thongmee as Jane
- Achita Sikamana as Natre
[edit] Miscellanea
- The movie was a hit in Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines and Brazil.
- The pictures with ghostly images that were used to promote the film were actual photos borrowed from people who claimed they were photos of ghosts.
- During the shooting, the directors claimed that there was actually a ghost in the scene in which Natre crossing the street where Tun and Jane accidentally hit her. The story behind the incident was that there was a drunk man who was ironically killed in a car crash.
