Asian horror movies usually have several things in common: among them revenge, technology and ghosts.

Add to that list remakes of other recent movies.

“Shutter” is a remake of a 2004 Thai thriller by Japanese director Masayuki Ochiai.

In this competent but undistinguished ghost story, the camera in its many varieties is the technological component.

Jane and Ben are blissful newlyweds on their way to Tokyo where Ben has just been rehired by his old company.

He’s a professional photographer and the couple plan to take their honeymoon in the shadow of Mount Fuji before moving to the city. While driving back to their to their love nest one foggy night a girl walks into the middle of the road and Jane hits her. When she and hubby come to, they call the police but no sign of the girl is found.

Back in the city, they begin to notice odd things about their photos. The honeymoon pictures show wispy white smudges that Ben dismisses as a camera malfunction. However, his assistant identifies them as spirit figures — she knows because her ex-boyfriend works for a magazine devoted to this supernatural phenomenon. Jane spots the girl from the accident around town and she decides to investigate. A medium tells the couple that spirits cling to the real world out of fierce passions not extinguished at the time of death.

Meanwhile, Ben begins to experience strange visions and photographic malfunctions but he refuses to buy into the spirit thing. Every ghost story has a skeptic needing to be convinced. Jane, on the other hand, believes there’s a purpose behind the phenomena that’s disrupting their lives and begins to play sleuth.

Rachael Taylor plays Jane, Joshua Jackson is Ben and Megumi Okina the long-haired wraith. They’re capable and effective in the modest framework of the movie. Like similar movies, this one features a few scares and more than a few silly story points. Unfortunately, one of its more commendable attributes may work against it at the box office: a sense of restraint. Audiences accustomed to the sadistic blood-letting of the so-called torture-porn genre may find this too tame. There are a few ghoulish special effects but no chainsaws or meat cleavers.