| Overall: | C |
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| Violence: | C |
| Sexual Content: | C+ |
| Language: | C- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C+ |
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| Video Release: | 14 Jul 2008 |
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In Rear Window, a professional photographer confined to his room with a broken leg suspects a murder has occurred after using his high-powered camera to spy on his neighbor. A young boy sees dead people all around him, without the aid of a camera, in The Sixth Sense.
Home Video Extra Features
Shutter releases to the home video market in three editions. The Rated Theatrical Version offers the movie in both widescreen and full screen presentations, and two featurettes (A Ghost In The Lens and A History Of Spirit Photography). Audio tracks are available in 5.1 Dolby Surround (English) and Dolby Surround (Spanish and French), with English and Spanish subtitles.
Shutter Unrated Edition offers the movie in widescreen only, with audio tracks in 5.1 Dolby Surround and DTS (English) and Dolby Surround (Spanish and French). Subtitles are provided in English and Spanish. Bonus materials include the two featurettes found on the theatrical version plus: A Cultural Divide, The Director: Masayuki Ochiai, A Conversation With Luke Dawson, Create Your Own Phantom Photo and The Hunt For The Haunt: Tools And Tips For Ghost Hunting. As well, the disc provides commentary with production executive Alex Sundell, screenwriter Luke Dawson and actress Rachael Taylor, nine deleted scenes and an alternate ending.
Shutter is being released in Blu-Ray Disc too. This version will be authored in BD-Java with AVC (MPEG 4 compression) on a dual-layer 50 GB disc. Audio tracks are available in 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master (English) and 5.1 Dolby Digital (French and Spanish), with subtitles in Spanish, Cantonese, Korean and Mandarin. In addition to all of the extras packaged with the Unrated Edition, this version includes the Fox Movie Channel featurette In Character With Joshua Jackson, three more alternate scenes and some Japanese Spirit Photography Videos.

Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for nearly 10 years. She serves as Vice President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness. She and her husband Garry have four sons.