Shutter Reviews

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The Mahalo Top 7

1. Rotten Tomatoes: Shutter Reviews
2. Metacritic.com: Shutter Reviews
3. The New York Times: Shutter Review (March 23, 2008)
4. Cinematical: Shutter Review (March 22, 2008)
5. The Hollywood Reporter: Shutter Review (March 24, 2008)
6. Variety: Shutter Review (March 21, 2008)
7. IGN: Shutter Review (March 20, 2008)

Shutter Reviews (Good)

• TV Guide: Shutter Review (3/4)
  • "The remake is Japanese director Masayuki Ochiai's first English-language film, and the screenplay is Luke Dawson's first produced project. That's a lot of firsts, and they add up to a derivative but surprisingly effective supernatural tale in which there's more to fear from the living than the dead."

Shutter Reviews (Bad)

• AV Club: Shutter Review (C-)
  • "Ochiai relies more on fake shocks that wear off quickly than on the lasting chills that come with careful atmosphere-building."

• ReelViews: Shutter Review (1/4)
  • "Shutter possesses one of those scripts that changes the rules every few moments to conform with whatever new twist it wants to throw into the proceedings. Not only doesn't the movie hold together in retrospect, but the holes are apparent while it's simultaneously unspooling and unraveling."

• FearNet: Shutter Review
  • "A generous dose of yawns, fake scares, eye-rolling silliness, and some really vacant performances."

• Film.com: Shutter Review (D)
  • "The time I've spent watching it and writing these 332 words about it far exceeds the attention it deserves."

• PopMatters: Shutter Review (3/10)
  • "For all Shutter‘s pedestrian plotting and ho-hum scares, this detail of the ghost’s motivation gives pause. It’s hardly news that in a scary movie, a white girl wandering through Tokyo is frightened and harassed by some supernatural phenomenon. But Shutter is almost perversely upfront in connecting privileged, self-justifying white boys with the problem at its core."

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