SHUTTER

Director(s): B. Pisanthanakun & P. Wongpoom
Country: Thailand
Year: 2004
Language: Thai with English subtitles
Length: 97 minutes

Program:
31 March - 19.30 hours - Filmhuis Den Haag
02 April - 14.30 hours - Rialto Amsterdam*
03 April - 22.00 hours - Filmmuseum Vondelpark Amsterdam
06 April - 2nd evening screening - Filmhuis Arnhem
09 April - 19.00 hours - Filmhuis ’t Hoogt Utrecht
15 April - 21.45 hours - Lantaren-Venster Rotterdam
17 April - 21.00 hours - RKZ Bios Groningen
19 April - 21.30 hours - Plaza Futura Eindhoven

* with IIAS Asian horror panel: Gruesome Asia

Tun, a photographer, and his girlfriend Jane are driving home from a party late at night. They have a hit-and-run accident and mow down a young woman. Tun urges Jane to drive away from the scene. Shortly after, strange light patterns and faces start appearing on his photos. Jane and Tun start investigating the ‘ghost photos’ phenomena and history of the girl who seems to be behind the haunting. It turns out that the ghost is attached to Tun in a very strange and terrible way.

Shutter is truly scary every single excruciating minute and typically Asian in it’s karmic retribution theme that you reap the sorrows that you sow. There will be no time to go to the bathroom ...