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Driving home from a party, Jane (Natthaweeranuch
Thongmee) & photographer Tun (Ananda Everingham) run over a
woman, but panicking of what they might have done or might get into they drive
away ... & it seems that's that, as it seems there are never any inquiries
made ... But then, when photographing a graduation, Tun finds that several of
his photos feature weird shadows, that basically ruin the pictures & that
in some cases look a lot like ghosts ... and soon the ghost of the women they
ran over appears to both of them, in their dreams as well as in real life ... So,
Tun & Jane take up investigations about the deqd girl ... investigations
that lead to nothing as they can't find a single report about a dead or even
injured girl in the night of the accident. So they concentrate on the clues
that might be in the ghost-photos ... & then everything takes an unexpected
turn: All the clues suggest that the girl of the accident was an ex-girlfriend
of Tun, Natre (Acita Sikamana), whom he ditched years ago, who had suicidal
tendencies & whom his friends - with whom he & Jane were partying the
night of the accident - took care of rather cruelly (but Tun claims he
has no idea what that was supposed to mean). Inexplicably, all of his friends have committed
suicide since the party. Tun & Jane decide to visit Natre's mother, just
to get to the root of the story ... but there they learn, to their greatest
surprise, that Natre's still alive ... which is not true, as they have to find
out, her mother only kept her corpse in the house, not being able to let go.
But it also turns out that Natre didn't die in a car accident - their car
accident - at all, but committed suicide by jumping out of a window, quite some
time earlier. Jane figures that to atone for his sins towards Natre it would
suffice if Tun would persuade her mother to properly cremate her corpse ...
which he does, & after one more night of haunting everything seems to be
over ... But then Jane, developing some more photos for Tun, discovers a
photoseries that seems to tell her to look behind some shelves in Tun's
appartment ... where she finds photos of Tun's friends raping Natre, obviously
taken by Tun ... apparetnly their way of taking care of the girl. Naturally,
& despite Tun's lame excuses, Jane leaves him, so he decides to face Natre
the spirit once & for all, looking for clues of her with his Polaroid
camera, but he can't find her until he takes a picture of himself ... &
finds her sitting on his shoulders ... which obviously did acause his terrible
neck pains he had all through the film. Trying to get rid of her, he falls
out of a window ... but not to his death, he becomes a mental patient, with
Natre sitting on his shoulders for all eternity ... Really creepy
thriller that puts an atmosphere of unease over scary effects, & coherent
storytelling over mindless action, & even if the story sometimes seems to
lose itself in its own complexity, Shutter is a competently made, genuinely
creepy piece of horror cinema.
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