Shelter wants to be an Asian horror movie really badly. So badly that it was released in Japan before it was release anywhere else, in fact. Julianne Moore plays a psychologist who's brought in by her father to assist in an intriguing case of Jonathan Rhys Meyers who has multiple personality disorder. It's a slowly developing mystery (who is he really, is he ill or is he faking, how many personalities does he have) that unravels like most Jap-Horror...slow takes, trips to the countryside, spooky shadows and revelatory searches through old newspapers, google and microfiche.
The whole film has an unassuming air of confidence around it while the principle cast lend gravitas to the spooky goings on. It's the same old, same old at the end of the day but it could be worse. The Jap-horror which it mimics is still far superior but it'son the same level as Orphan and much better than recent offering The New Daughter.
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