AKA:
ชัตเตอร์
ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ >> Thai
About:
Shutter is a 2004 Thai horror film. It focuses on mysterious
images seen in developed pictures.
The film was remade in 2008 under the same title.
Synopsis:
After celebrating at a drinking party with his close friends, Tun
(Ananda Everingham), a photographer, and his girlfriend, Jane
(Natthaweeranuch Thongmee), get into a car accident. Jane hits a young
woman. With much fear and bewilderment, Tun prohibits her from getting
out of the car: they drive away, leaving the poor girl lying in the
road.
Tun begins to discover mysterious white shadows and what appear
to be faces in his photographs. A suspicious Jane thinks these images
may be the ghost of the girl they hit on the road. Tun, who has been
experiencing severe neck pains since the accident, visits a specialist.
While a nurse attempts to measure his weight, to his dismay, he weighs
approximately 120 kilograms. While collecting his medication via the
counter, he hears a woman's voice that accuses him of being a liar and
he runs away, traumatized. Unconvinced of the existence of the
supernatural, Tun dismisses the idea of being haunted although his
friends are also being disturbed by this mysterious girl.
Jane begins
to investigate in the school's lab and discovers that the girl was
Natre (Achita Sikamana), a shy young woman who had attended the same
college as Tun. After confronting Tun, Tun admits that he and Natre were
in a relationship, which Tun had kept secret from his friends. Natre
loved Tun dearly and threatened to commit suicide when Tun abruptly
broke off the relationship. Tun witnesses his friend, Tonn, committing
suicide by jumping from his apartment balcony. Tun discovers that his
two other close friends from college have also committed suicide.
Believing that they have been coerced into doing so by Natre's ghost,
Tun becomes convinced that he will be next.
The haunting of Tun by
Natre's ghost escalates, so he and Jane visit Natre's mother. At her
house, they discover the decaying body of Natre in her bedroom. They
learn that Natre had committed suicide by jumping off the roof of a
hospital, but her mother could not bear to have her cremated. Tun and
Jane spend the night in a hotel, where Tun wakes up and is confronted by
Natre's ghost. Tun tries to escape but is pursued; ultimately, while
trying to get away, he falls off a fire escape and is injured. Natre's
funeral is held the following day, after which Jane hopes that
everything will return to normal.
However, on returning to Bangkok,
Jane collects some photographs. One of the films shows a series of
shadowy images of Natre in Tun's apartment. Investigating further, Jane
finds a set of negatives hidden behind the bookcase. She develops the
negatives to find photographs in which Tun's friends—the ones who
committed suicide—are sexually assaulting Natre. Utterly disgusted by
her findings, a teary Jane questions Tun. Tun admits that he witnessed
the rape but did nothing to stop his friends, and that he was the one
who had taken those photos. He says he did it out of peer pressure and
has never forgiven himself, but Jane leaves him.
Knowing that he is
still haunted by Natre, Tun takes a series of Polaroid photographs in
his apartment in an attempt to find her. Having no success, he throws
the camera across the room in a rage, only for it to go off, taking a
photograph of Tun. Giving Tun a rude shock, the Polaroid develops,
showing Natre sitting on Tun's shoulders, the truth behind his ongoing
neck pain. In the ensuing confrontation, a disbelieving Tun jumps from
the window, trying to escape from Natre.
The final scene shows a
badly bandaged Tun slumping over in a hospital bed while Jane visits
him. As the door swings closed behind Jane, the glass reflection of Tun
features Natre still sitting on his shoulders.
Starring:
Ananda Everingham
Natthaweeranuch Thongmee
Achita Sikamana
Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom
