Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
This American remake of the 2004 Thai horror film is a largely competent but derivative entry in the J-horror ghost wave of the 2000s. The plot recycles familiar vengeful-spirit tropes with little reinvention, and the acting from Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor is serviceable but unremarkable. Cinematography leans into the blue-grey palette typical of the genre with some effective use of photography as a horror device. Novelty suffers as a remake that adds little to the original's concept. The ending, while not surprising, delivers a memorably creepy final image involving the ghost's positioning that elevates it slightly above the generic.