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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Dimension Films | Release Date: August 11, 2006 | R

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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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

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

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

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

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

Jason Anderson

Tedious, baffling and ultimately laughable. Read full review

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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CuriousStranger

Sep 26, 2012

Better than the original by far.

58 of 60 users found this helpful582

DanK.

Aug 10, 2006

Great Film, genuinely scary at times. loved it

1 of 1 users found this helpful

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Sep 12, 2021

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1 of 1 users found this helpful10

marc5477

Jan 23, 2016

If you dont know science dont write stories with tech at center stage. Simply as that. The premise of this movie is that some college kids discovered a "frequency" that had never been observed previously using a computer and apparently a computer hack can fix the problem... Clearly the movieIf you dont know science dont write stories with tech at center stage. Simply as that. The premise of this movie is that some college kids discovered a "frequency" that had never been observed previously using a computer and apparently a computer hack can fix the problem... Clearly the movie was going for some sort of wireless frequency and once the aliens arrived they took over internet servers. There is no such thing as a frequency we never knew existed, not within known tech. There are only frequencies that are not usable for various physics reasons. So anyway, the premise is garbage but hey, its a horror movie... or at least it tried to be. The problem is that its not scary in any traditional sense. There are no scary monsters, just some blurry human looking things that apparently take away your will to live. How? No revealed. Why? Not revealed. Who are these aliens? Not discussed. But hey, they are apparently afraid of the color red! So mysterious.... oooh aahhh. Lame. Stick with Pinhead, Jason and Freddy.… Expand

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WJS

Aug 28, 2015

This movie is very weird and although it has a few creepy moments, mostly it's just a bunch of nightmare images strung together in a basically plot less story. The acting is not that great and it's shot in a very dark way that makes it hard to see. The direction is very pedestrian and theThis movie is very weird and although it has a few creepy moments, mostly it's just a bunch of nightmare images strung together in a basically plot less story. The acting is not that great and it's shot in a very dark way that makes it hard to see. The direction is very pedestrian and the visual effects are not that special.… Expand

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WAJ

Aug 17, 2006

Although this movie had some decent visual effects and notable cinematography, the plot and acting left much to be desired. The movie seemed to have been made to show the director's/writer's hatred of how technology has become part of everyones lives. The beginning of the story Although this movie had some decent visual effects and notable cinematography, the plot and acting left much to be desired. The movie seemed to have been made to show the director's/writer's hatred of how technology has become part of everyones lives. The beginning of the story spent more time acting as a commercial for razor phones rather than developing the charachters. By the end, the "moral" of the story is smashed repeatedly over your head, but the story itself strays and begins making less and less sense. It seems as though the writer or director began to run out of ideas and borrowed from much better horror/suspense movies such as 28 days later and The Shining. This movie is clearly not worth the ten dollars and definitely not worth the two hours or so of your life that it steals from you.… Expand

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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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