Saturday, August 28, 2010

Day 3: Shutter

Method of Acquisition: Borrowed

Runtime: 90 minutes Year: 2008

Plot: Pacey from Dawson's Creek let his ex get raped, so she comes back as a ghost and terrorizes him,his wife, and his friends mostly by showing up in photographs.

Review: Pretty crap. Nobody was likable. Pacey was an asshole and Mrs. Pacey did nothing but whine and look really sincere. I love 90 minute movies because they move pretty quickly, but instead it was "suspenseful". Suspense generally just means waiting for something to good happen and nothing good happened until the very end. Pacey's wife leaves him and so he starts snapping Polaroids and screaming the ghost. He throws the camera and somehow manages to snap a picture of himself. It turns out that the ghost has been straddling his neck since the very beginning and so he electrocutes himself in the neck and head. Then time has passed and he is in a hospital looking brain-damaged with the ghost on his back. At the very least, the suspense did eventually lead up to an ending I wouldn't have predicted, even if it did suck.

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