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Am I the only person to really not like this movie?

posted 16 years ago by Capricornian
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I absolutely adore Asian horror, especially ones about ghosts; so after reading many, many rave reviews calling it 'the scariest film ever,' I expected to love it. Perhaps I had just set myself up for disappointment, because I didn't enjoy it at all.

In fact, I thought it was quite mediocre and cliché, devoid of any very creative scares whatsoever. I just can't understand why so many people seem to love it. There was little atmosphere (which is essential for creepy ghost stories), and while the acting was pretty good, the plot twists weren't all too original. The best part of the whole film, in my opinion, was the last 10 minutes. Does anyone else feel this way?

[–] synthninja-251-43212 11 years ago

Sorry I have to just add, I agree with what you said about lack of creative scares. They were just jump scares but they actually did make me jump, which is odd for me. But yea as i just said in the previous post a minute ago, boring, not much to say on Shutter unfortunately.

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[–] fastdontlie 10 years ago

Sorry I have to just add, I agree with what you said about lack of creative scares. They were just jump scares but they actually did make me jump, which is odd for me. But yea as i just said in the previous post a minute ago, boring, not much to say on Shutter unfortunately.

That's why you commented twice. lol fake tough guy!

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[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 7 years ago

I like this film actually and just rewatched it. But I first saw this back in 2004, 13 years ago. And it was the scariest film I ever saw, more so than The Ring, The Conjuring, or any other scary film since then (it was similar to the fear I had over the film IT). The fear I had for this was tremendous. I immediately had my mom watch it and she doesn't scare easily either. And she couldn't even finish the film, she woke me up because she was too scared to go back and turn off the tv, lol!

And I've held off watching it since then as I was too scared to do so but I wanted my friend who doesn't get fazed by any horror flick, especially ghost type films, so we just finished watching it today. And I have to admit it wasn't as scary or atmospheric as I remembered it to be. Maybe scary films have changed since then and our tastes have now changed. My friend was not scared at all, in fact she was trying not to fall asleep.