History Film / Shutter

* DaylightHorror: Several unsettling scenes take place during the daytime, such as Jane's visit to the college and Tun and Jane's visit to Natre's mother, to name a couple of examples.

* PetTheDog: For some strange reason, Natre refused to haunt Jane. [[spoiler: This is most likely out of the fact Jane was innocent and was unaware of Tun's betrayal towards his former lover.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Ben in the 2008 remake is this to Tun as he manages to be even ''worse'', having planned everything that happened, even being the one to drug his girlfriend and was present from beginning to end when his friends assaulted her, trying to justify it by saying it was the only thing he could to drive her away when she wouldn't listen to him trying to dump her. As such, his fate feels much more karmic.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Tun is left in a catatonic state after being badly injured, with Natre still sitting on his shoulders. Giving his role in what happened to Natre, however, one could say it counts as karma as it was with the deaths of Tun's friends. The one upside is that Jane is alive and free of the hauntings, albeit emotionally and mentally scarred from the ordeal.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:The boyfriend is revealed to be one for the current girlfriend, who breaks up with him in disgust on how his deplorable past actions led to them being currently haunted.]]

* DownerEnding

* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:The ending, for Tun.]]

%%* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge

* TwistEnding

* ToiletHumor: The scene [[ItMakesSenseinContext with the transexual in the public toilet]].

* CameraFiend - Tun, obviously.

* FaceRevealingTurn - In a nightmare of Tun's, he is walking towards who he believes to be Jane. Suddenly, she starts coughing up blood, and then she turns around to reveal that she is Jane, who then starts spitting out her own teeth as well.
* AFateWorseThanDeath - [[spoiler:The ending, for Tun.]]
* ForeignRemake - The Tamil and US remakes.

* FourIsDeath - There is a scene in which Tun is running down several flights of stairs to escape Natre. However, no matter which floor he stops at, it is ''always'' "Level 4".
* GhostlyGoals - Natre is a blend of both types. [[spoiler:She longs to both exact revenge on Tun (as well as his friends) and to be with him forever, but also provides Jane with clues as to what happened to her.]]

* TheReveal - This film contains several, all centering around Natre. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Natre was not killed in the hit-and-run accident - she had been dead a long time prior to that. She had, in fact, committed suicide. So, why is she seeking revenge, if she wasn't killed in a hit-and-run? Well, it turns out that Tun went to college with her, and started dating her. Natre fell deeply in love with him, but Tun kept their relationship a secret, even from his closest friends, due to everyone else finding the quiet, unassuming Natre to be "weird". He didn't love her, although he did care about her a lot. However, Natre fell into a deep depression and became suicidal, and shortly after that, Tun dumped her.]] Then, towards the end of the film, the entire truth is revealed: [[spoiler:Natre became depressed and eventually killed herself because of Tun's friends holding her down and raping her one night. To add insult to injury, when Tun walked in on them, instead of helping her, chose to protect his friends instead by providing photos of Natre to his friends so that they could use them against her.]] Then, near the very end of the film, the reasons for [[spoiler:Tun's neck ache and increased weight are revealed: Natre's spirit has been sitting on his shoulders the whole time, something which is only revealed when he takes a picture of himself]].

* SpookyPhotographs - The first type, all the way.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl - Natre.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Australian actress Rachael Taylor, who plays Jane in the American remake, loses her American accent in a couple of scenes, including the one [[spoiler:where she dumps Ben for taking part in Megumi's rape by taking the photos and not preventing his friends from having their way with her.]]

* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: All of Tun's friends suffer this.]]

* [[spoiler:RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil]]

* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator: Tun in his earlier flashbacks.]]

** Arguably [[PayEvilUntoEvil justified.]]

* TheDanza - Megumi Okina as Megumi Tanaka.

* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Natre's mother still keeps her daughter's decomposing corpse in her (Natre's) bed. She is eventually cremated, with everyone hoping that this act will put her spirit at peace. [[ItGotWorse It doesn't]].]]

* FaceRevealingTurn - In a nightmare of Tun's, he is walking towards who he believes to be Jane. Suddenly, she starts coughing up blood, and then she turns around to reveal that she is Natre, who then starts spitting out her own teeth as well.

* BloodFromTheMouth: Natre in one of Tun's nightmares. Complete with ''teeth''.

* JumpScare

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: That's quite a weight you're carrying there, Tun. [[spoiler: And she will never ever leave you.]]

* GhostlyGoals - Natre is a blend of both types.
* HeyItsThatGuy - In the American remake, [[TheOffice Roy Anderson]] is [[spoiler:a rapist]].
** Don't forget "[[{{Film/Transformers}} Australian chick from Transformers]]" and [[Series/{{Heroes}} Ando]].
** Megumi Okina, who also appears in the US remake, played Rika Nishina in ''[=~Ju-on~=]: The Grudge''.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:''All'' of Tun's friends.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Natre.]] Also, Tun's friends all throw themselves off of buildings, although it is strongly implied that they are being influenced by Natre at the time.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The white wisps that appear in Tun's photos from the college graduation turn out to be [[spoiler:highlighting the room in which Natre was raped.]] Also, Tun's unexplained neck soreness and increased weight gain [[spoiler:turn out to be the result of Natre sitting on his shoulders the whole time.]]

* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Natre's mother still keeps her daughter's decomposing corpse in her (Natre's) bed. She is eventually buried, with everyone hoping that this act will put her spirit at peace. [[ItGotWorse It doesn't]].]]

''Shutter'' is a 2004 Thai horror film by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom. It focuses a on young couple, Tun and Jane, who, after being involved in a hit-and-run accident, find themselves menaced by the ghost of a young woman, who they discover to be called Natre, most prominently in mysterious and ghostly images seen in [[CameraFiend photographer Tun's]] developed pictures. It soon becomes clear that there is a lot more to these images and hauntings than meets the eye, however, and Tun himself is hiding many dark secrets...

* FaceRevealingTurn - In a nightmare of Tun's, he is walking towards who he believes to be Jane. He can only see the back of her. Suddenly, she starts coughing up blood, and then she turns around to reveal Natre, who then starts ''spitting out her own teeth'' as well.

* TheReveal - This film contains several, all centering around Natre. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Natre was not killed in the hit-and-run accident - she had been dead a long time prior to that. (It can be assumed that what they hit was Natre's ghost, who was beginning her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.) She had, in fact, killed herself by jumping off of a hospital roof, after previously attempting suicide by slitting her wrists. So, why is she seeking revenge, if she wasn't killed in a hit-and-run? Well, it turns out that Tun knew her. Knew her very well. He went to college with her, and started dating her. Natre fell deeply in love with him, but Tun kept their relationship a secret, even from his closest friends, due to everyone else finding the quiet, unassuming Natre to be "weird". He didn't love her, although he did care about her a lot. However, something very bad happened to her, causing Natre to fall into a deep depression and become suicidal, and shortly after that, Tun dumped her.]] Then, towards the end of the film, the entire truth is revealed: [[spoiler:Natre became depressed and eventually killed herself because of Tun's friends holding her down and raping her one night. To add insult to injury, when Tun walked in on them, instead of helping her, chose to protect his friends instead by providing photos of the poor, traumatised Natre to his friends so that they could use them against her.]] Natre's rage is perfectly justified, it seems. Then, near the very end of the film, the reasons for [[spoiler:Tun's neck ache and increased weight are revealed: Natre's spirit has been sitting on his shoulders the whole time, something which is only revealed when he takes a picture of himself]]. The end of the film shows that [[spoiler:[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel she will never leave him]]]].

* RoomFullOfCrazy: in the American version. When it's revealed that Ritsuo's been publishing fake SpookyPhotographs, he shows Jane a room full of real ones.