Comments on: Thai Horror Remake Shutter Gets Release Date

By: shaun jones

shaun jones — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:06:43 +0000

yeah man, i am so so so sick of watching the classic originals and thinking wow what an amazing fucking film, just to see the americans go oh, we can make a quick buck on this we can release it in… wait for it…… ENGLISH, and not only that we can put all our least favourite actors in it and we have a movie… oh we dont have to worry about the film we just copy it scene for scene itll be easy, im so so sick of the american film industry full stop, bring back more spider man and less xmen 3, bring back terminator not an american version of THE RING lol its all gotten really pathetic now, the eye was the worst and dark water grrrr reamkes all over its stupid and sad and pathetic get a grip hollywood

By: Sam So

Sam So — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:05:40 +0000

I don’t like the idea of the plot tweakings I’ve noticed so far, mainly that they are a married couple in the remake when they were just going steady in the original. The original was a solid-horror film, with a simple, yet intricate plot.

I find the problems with these remakes (especially with the failure of recents like the Eye) is that they don’t have the same effects as they do with an Asian audience because many of these Asian horror films, alot of Asian superstition comes into play and would make more sense and to Asian culture than American! It’s very esoteric. I don’t think this movie is going to pull that off.

Right now, I really hope they don’t change the ending, that’s all. Which was brilliant and shocking!

My other complaint is, the distinction of race- why is the ghostly presence that of a Japanese girl? It’s very self indulgent of the director (who’s Japanese of course) and slightly offensive to me (a Thai-born, Cambodian-American). The story is Thai, the ghostly women is Thai. I would’ve prefered they kept her as a spooky American girl, rather than change her into a Japanese woman. C’mon?!

Also, the cast doesn’t “wow” me. Joshua Jackson doesn’t compare to the original actor. Nor does Rachel Taylor. And I know there’s alot of comparison involve with my comment, but I still have doubts as to the way it will be interpreted. I will go watch this movie and expect, not a remake, but an interpretation, and that worries me as to how the movie will come out.

I know, I haven’t seen the movie and I am definitely planning to, but what I’ve seen so far with reading and the trailers. It’s all a predestined mess.

By: Josh Stephen

Josh Stephen — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:51:36 +0000

I would’ve agreed with you all. Every Asian remake I’ve seen has been absolutely horrible; but, Joshua Jackson is an awesome actor (probably the most natural I’ve ever seen) who picks his roles (based on scipts) VERY carefully. With this in mind, I trust his judgement that is will be a solid enough transfer and most likely a pretty damn good film!

By: Thai Chat

Thai Chat — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:58:08 +0000

I’m tired of Ghost movies here in Thailand. Foreign movies have been a kind of help till now, but if Hollywood is goind to remake Thai Ghost movies, how am I gonna do?

By: Addicted to Films

Addicted to Films — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:49:14 +0000

I really like the origal Shutter. I’d say one of the best Asian horror flick.
Really interested to see this remake. Lets hope they didn’t screw it up real bad.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:42:27 +0000

Shutter was the scariest asian horror to date, my friend and I (who watch many of them together) agree. Remakes suck so bad though!

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:51:10 +0000

No, it’s not just you. I’m sick to death of these. Partly becasue they’re usually inferior to the original. I just caught up with shutter last weekend actually.

I liked it well enough, but even original Asian horror pictures are starting to all be the same.