I can't remember this movie!

January 3, 2011 9:34 PM

Can you identify this movie I saw a few years ago? In the movie, a couple shares an spacious apartment decorated with an Asian theme. It had a darkroom and wooden floors. It may be from up to a few decades ago - 70s or 80s, perhaps. I can't remember much else about it, but it may have been a horror movie of some sort. I think the man worked in the darkroom, and had dark brown hair.. That's all I can remember.
posted by cp311 to Media & Arts (11 answers total)

hmmm ... no darkroom, but daaark roooooomms!!! was it lost highway?
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 10:53 PM on January 3, 2011

Could it be High Art?
posted by Sufi at 10:55 PM on January 3, 2011

This is a longshot, because it doesn't meet all of your descriptions, but Blow-Up?
posted by amyms at 11:20 PM on January 3, 2011

Sounds a little like Don't Look Now -- tho I admit it's years since I saw it, and can't remember if the Asian theme was there.
posted by blue funk at 11:53 PM on January 3, 2011

Shutter?
posted by ceri richard at 1:20 AM on January 4, 2011

It could be Shutter (the US remake of the Thai movie with the same name), though it is much more recent than your guess. The male lead is the guy who plays Peter Bishop in Fringe these days, and he has dark hair.
posted by Iosephus at 1:22 AM on January 4, 2011

I am thinking Shutter as well, having seen it yesterday meaning to watch Shutter Island instead. An American couple is living in a fancy apartment in Japan while the husband works on a photography assignment. But every photo either one of them takes contains a mysterious flaw...

Sound familiar?
posted by AndrewStephens at 1:35 AM on January 4, 2011

Manhunter?
posted by cda at 4:55 AM on January 4, 2011

Ghost?

I don't remember the decorating style but it could be what you're thinking of.
posted by mareli at 8:41 AM on January 4, 2011

Response by poster: Honestly, none of these sound familiar.. I think the male character had a showing or exhibition to go to at some point in the movie, perhaps at the apartment.
posted by cp311 at 10:49 PM on January 4, 2011

Here are the results of an IMDB search for the keyword "photographer" in the horror genre, sorted by release date. Perhaps something rings a bell?
posted by hot soup girl at 4:28 PM on January 6, 2011