Pulse

Name: Pulse
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Released: August 11, 2006
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 27
Cast: Christina Milian, Kristen Bell, Rick Gonzalez

2006

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 18 Critics

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PULSE

Movie Details & Credits

Dimension Films | Release Date: August 11, 2006

Starring: Christina Milian, Kristen Bell, Rick Gonzalez

Summary: Jim Sonzero directs this remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's apocalyptic horror classic.

Director: Jim Sonzero

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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91	#91 Most Shared Movie of 2006

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TV Guide Magazine - Ken Fox

To say Wes Craven's rewrite of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 "Pulse" isn't as bad as it could have been sounds like faint praise, but Kurosawa's "Pulse" is one of the true masterpieces of recent Asian horror, and the track record for Hollywood horror redos isn't great. Read full review

Boston Globe - Wesley Morris

If Pulse is unsurprising as a horror movie (come on: chalky, soul-sucking freaks again?), as a campaign against the Internet, digital piracy, cellphones, and anything that computes anything (like laptops or brains), it's a riot. Read full review

Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman

In this American remake of the spooky, more-atmospheric-than-coherent 2005 J-horror thriller, the ghosts blink and crackle into existence with an electromagnetic sputter, but really, they're not so different from the gauzy, see-through spirits of yesteryear. Read full review

Chicago Reader - J.R. Jones

The remake begins with the same premise and appropriates the most striking visuals, grafting them onto a more explicable but equally dull George Romero-style doomsday scenario. Read full review

New York Post - Lou Lumenick

Pulse bears more than a slight resemblance to a 1994 American horror called "Ghost in the Machine." They didn't screen that stinker in advance for critics, either. Read full review

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Jason Anderson

Tedious, baffling and ultimately laughable. Read full review

L.A. Weekly - Scott Foundas

Here, the CG effects are plentiful, but the scare factor rarely rises above the level of a viral email, and the desaturated color scheme of Sonzero and cinematographer Mark Plummer makes every frame look as though it was developed in a solution of vomit and ash. Read full review

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User Reviews

CuriousStranger

Sep 26, 2012

Better than the original by far.

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emilypyre

Sep 26, 2012

creepy as f**k, loved every second of it.

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Pencils

Aug 12, 2006

Not the best, but not bad. Quite atmospheric and creepy at times. No, it didnt make a lot of sense in spots, but, then, what horror movies does, really? Very few, so I don't worry about that part. I liked the low-key special effects. In the end, it's an enjoyable way to spend a Not the best, but not bad. Quite atmospheric and creepy at times. No, it didnt make a lot of sense in spots, but, then, what horror movies does, really? Very few, so I don't worry about that part. I liked the low-key special effects. In the end, it's an enjoyable way to spend a summer afternoon.… Expand

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ChadS.

Aug 17, 2006

"Pulse" blows. This filmmaker obviously has watched "Signs", the way in which he expands the crisis' scope from a local one to a full-scale apocalypse. Give M. Night Shyamalan some credit, the man knows how to direct his actors. For instance, he'd give more instructions to Brad "Pulse" blows. This filmmaker obviously has watched "Signs", the way in which he expands the crisis' scope from a local one to a full-scale apocalypse. Give M. Night Shyamalan some credit, the man knows how to direct his actors. For instance, he'd give more instructions to Brad Dourif than "act really, really crazy, man." As the two leads encounter survivors fleeing the city, that's when the real blowing begins. More over-acting, or maybe it's a consciousness that we gravitate towards pretty people. Would they for just anybody? The bad dialogue ably defeats Kristin Bell from the get-go. She laments not seeing the warning signs of her late boyfriend, and yet it takes ages for her, or anybody to notice that a friend under similar circumstances is also unresponsive to his text messages and cell calls.… Expand

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moviegrabbag

Jun 13, 2011

This was just plain horrible. The acting was a joke, the plot was one big hole after another and all the charactors were just bad people. I was actually happy when they died, I am actually angry more of them didn't die! Don't watch this steaming pile of crap.

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FitriAmirrol

Nov 19, 2010

Without doubt a contender for the worst possible Asian-horror remake, Pulse simply downright failed; The cast is appalling, the story is nonsense, the pace is erratic, the VFX is cheap, the horror is non-existent and the ending is so silly, it ridicules your IQ. A two-year-oldâ

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AmitabhJ.

Aug 9, 2006

Simple...One of thw worst films ive seen...Not even worth the space it occupies on the web.

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