GL84 Following a gruesome car accident, a newlywed couple in Japan believe that the female victim of the accident has returned as a ghost and seeking retribution against him for a previous incident against her and forcing them to find a way to stop the rampage.This wasn't at all that bad if looked at on it's own as it's actually a rather good entry. One of the best features is that there's just a literal ton of encounters with the ghost, and all of them are handled well enough to earn some great moments. From the first dark-room encounter where he finally becomes convinced of the presence of the ghost, the encounter with the ghost in the boardroom which is another stand-out due to the fantastic innovation of the Polaroid camera allowing for some suspense to be had with the waiting for the photo results to come about, and the interaction that happens once the revelation has occurred is really good, and the later attack alone in the apartment with only the flashing camera to provide any light in brief spurts, the sounds of what's going on making it so fun and creepy that works so well due to being quite long and intense, which makes it stand-out a little more than the quick-shot appearances throughout the beginning. Those quick-cut scenes are also are pretty good, with their being a fantastic collection of banging noises off in the distance, ailing cries throughout the house and different pop-ups everywhere, from a great appearance on a train that results in a fun freak-out to a really creepy scene with the ghost appearing in photos all across the apartment, these are all quite fun and really worthwhile. As well, there's an incredibly fun and enjoyable encounter late in the film through an attack at the house, which has a lot of good points about it, from the creepy ghost action to the great setting and what it signifies for what has happened so far, it's a great scene and really makes a great lasting impression. Even the early car accident here with the ghost appearing in the middle of the road and causing a severe accident comes across as really nice here, being a nice shock jump and done early in the film as well. The last plus is the conversation at the magazine, which is quite fun spilling the basis for the film's mystery and getting it all out in the open with the discussion of what's going on, it makes for some really good times and the photographs along the edges aren't that bad at all. These here all work to make this one quite enjoyable. There oddly wasn't a whole lot really wrong with this one. One of the biggest issues is a lame encounter in a friend's apartment late in the film being way too short for what it was intended to do. This here just doesn't really do much, and just really has a feel to it that makes it come off like so many other efforts in the genre. Of course, the camera angles used here are another factor, as they hide everything during the scene and really making it hard to figure out what's happening. Another small problem is the finale in America, which just feels tacked on and unnecessary as the story had ended nicely in Japan and really didn't have to come back to America for the final twist at all. The last flaw is that the revelation comes way too late to really mean what it could've, and since it's based on a mystery that just comes out of nowhere without really being developed well, making that twist highly unorthodox. Overall, though, this wasn't that bad at all.Rated PG-13: Violence, some Language and sounds of Rape.

richieandsam SHUTTERI had never heard of this before, but i read the synopsis on the TV and it just sounded good.The movie is about a newly married couple who move to Japan. They have an accident and run over a girl, but they can't find a body when they regain consciousness. Then after that they start seeing her ghostly image in the photos that they take.For a psychological horror it wasn't scary. There were a few jump scares that were average. They made my girlfriend jump, but I unfortunately saw them coming a mile off. It is just a shame that this was not scary. But then I have never been scared by a horror. I wish I was... I think I would enjoy them more if I felt the fear. Instead I just find them entertaining.The film stars Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor & Megumi Okina. The acting was alright... I liked the Megumi. She was spooky and intense.The effects were good... when she got run over it was gruesome and really well done. Also, there were some scenes later in the film where she starts haunting them where it was so well put together it didn't look too fake. I liked it.I will give this film 7 out of 10.It was good, but a little predictable. I would consider this more of a thriller rather than a horror.For more reviews, please check out my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

ed060606 I was really surprised by this movie because it seemed like the movie would be another Ring type movie because a paranormal spirit would attack the main characters, but it was not. Ben, a photographer, comes to Tokyo Japan for a new life with his wife and the past to brought back when a ghostly presence follow him around. The movie then explains why ghost seem to follow around people who are alive. I love Rachel Taylor in this movie because the ghost is mainly trying to tell her something.She finally finds out what it is and results change the movie. A lot of twist and turns in this movie but the ending is pretty surprising.Enjoy!

Jackson Booth-Millard I didn't realise that this was Americanised remake of the Japanese original, I knew it was rated very lowly by the critics, I guess I just wanted to watch it for the sake of watching a bad film, hoping to agree with the critics. Basically Benjamin 'Ben' Shaw (Joshua Jackson) and Jane (Rachael Taylor, a near spitting image of Nicole Kidman) are newlyweds, so are naturally taking as many photos as possible, whether meaningful of mundane. They move to Japan because of Ben's new and exciting job opportunity, a photo shoot in Tokyo, but on the way, driving on an icy road through a dark forest they seem to hit a girl and skid off road, but then they wake up, no body. Jane is sure of what happened, but she and Ben continue on to find their new perfect home, which they quickly, and the taking photos continues. Recently though when taking photos, Ben and Jane notice a strange white light is in most of them, and an expert tells them it is the sign of a spirit, i.e they have a ghost. With a series of nightmares, and worse strange events and attacks, the couple confirm that they are being haunted, and it appears to be that Japanese girl they hit with the car. But Ben reveals a very scary fact that he knew the girl, named Megumi (Megumi Okina), she used to be a stalker to him, she never left him alone, and they tried to frame her with some photos, but it turned into rape, and she committed suicide. In the end, Jane leaves him, and the saying "she's with me all the time" is very literal, she has been sitting invisible on Ben's shoulders since her death, explaining his weird neck thing, and in the end turning catatonic he is in a mental hospital. Also starring David Denman as Bruno, John Hensley as Adam, Maya Hazen as Seiko, James Kyson-Lee as Ritsuo, Yoshiko Miyazaki as Akiko and Kei Yamamoto as Murase. Jackson and Taylor are slightly dull together and separately, there may be at least one jump that actually got me, and the moment or two that was chilling, but almost all the way through was bored, not scared and unimpressed, a silly remake horror thriller. Poor!