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What a puddle of vomit. I don't think I've ever watched a movie that, by all means, should've been creepy as hell and just felt so insanely bored. Seriously, with all the crazy imagery in this movie, how did they manage to make it so lame and generic? There's absolutely nothing that saves this movie.
Well, it leads to a funny inside joke in Forgetting Sarah Marshall I guess. So thumbs up for being the butt end of a joke, Pulse. Good job.
I must say this is the best one of all the pulse movies 2,3 sucked totally....its not gory in the sense of blood but it has a few creepy moments...the story is much better in the first one.
Posted By: horrorfan25 at 10:06am, January 24, 2009
Pulse isn't as horrible as people say but it's nothing special either. Pulse was originally suppose to be R but the director made some cuts to warrant the PG-13 rating so that teeny boppers could see it. That was a big mistake. The acting is just so and so and never goes anywhere. The scares are pretty cheap and nothing special. Well, Pulse does have some good scares. While the scares aren't like 'The exorcist' you can at least stomach them. Overall Pulse isn't a terrible film, it's just not a good one either.
Posted By: bdwolfe312 at 10:12am, November 29, 2008
Yet another terrible PG-13 American remake of an Asian horror film. As a general rule of thumb, I tend to avoid PG-13 horror. Not since the 80's has a PG rated horror film been worth a damn. (Poltergeist & Gremlins come to mind)
I actually saw the sequel to this film before seeing the original, and I have never seen the Asian version, which I am sure is far better than this piece of crap. The sequel, while still a miserable film, is better than this. Not scary, very "high school friendly" film. A waste of my time. Certainly glad I never paid any money to see this piece of trash.
It's an okay movie , Not scary at all , IT's kind of boring / awesome movie .
BUT YOU ALL SHOULD KNOW THAT SOME REMAKES ARE AWESOME .
I WANT TO SEE " NIGHT OF THE DEMONS" REMAKE OF THAT AWESOME 70S OR 80S MOVIE LOL
XOXO
BLOODYRED
Yet another American remake of an Asian horror film. Unfortunately, this one presumably lost a lot in translation and wasn't helped much by the crappy direction and uninteresting characters. I just couldn't bring myself to give a damn about anyone in the film because we learn next to nothing about them.
I'll admit that I never really got on the Japanese horror bandwagon, but the Japanese original sounds far more interesting. The themes of suicide and social isolation cry out to be explored, but 'Pulse' just glosses over them. It takes itself far too seriously, and doesn't have the substance to back it up with.
I am also amazed that it is possible to make a film whose central plot device involves red gaffer tape, and whose main characters are all university students, and not make a single gaffer tape joke. You could have almost supported the entire movie on gaffer tape jokes alone. Or is the "gaffer tape fixes everything" thing just an Australian idiosyncrasy?
One of those movies where if you are just tired enough, it can actually get scary... not to any extreme, but for a 14A movie (That's Canadian for your American pg-13/R), it was pretty damned effective.
Posted By: MrHorrorfest at 5:38pm, October 10, 2008
I saw it because of Kristen Vell. xD This movie was good, and I know people might hate me for the raiting I gave it. But who cares. It's just an opinion.
I'm a big horror fan and this movie got my hopes up only to let them down. Usually the imdb.com rating wont stop me from expecting a good movie but unfortunately they're right this time. The movie is about the world being taken over by a computer virus that allows the dead to come through the electronics and like "absorb" you into their world. The movie starts out alright and a little slow and is maybe watchable till just after half the movie then it just starts getting ridiculous. Things happen that are beyond even close to maybe possible. Watch movie if there's nothing left to see.
Posted By: thedescent08 at 2:32pm, September 8, 2008
Im sorry remakes i do like you alot but i dont know what i was thinking when i rented this i was like well i have nothing to do on a friday night and so the film starts with a guy entering library who is almost empty so heres one question if a ghost is following you and you have the choice to go with your friends or enter a creepy library with almost no one in it what would you choose? and by the way the movie had its scary parts and ghost apparitions but havent we seen this a million of times(the grudge,the ring,boogeyman etc...)the only scenes when i got scared were when the plane falled on the city and the ending so really if you dont have anything to do rent it and if you did liked it maybe its worth a buy(I SAID MAYBE)
Posted By: summer_nights at 11:36pm, August 17, 2008
I liked Pulse... It wasn't great but it was still decent and made for a brainless movie night with a friend. It's another movie about the dead meeting today's technology... It's been done before but Pulse pulls it off better than some other variations ie the really crappy "One Missed Call". I paid $5.99 for this title... I suggest you find it cheap like I did or rent it first.
I really like Kristen Bell, but I don't understand why she would take this role. I read somewhere that the "killer cell phones" scene in Forgetting Sarah Marshall was inspited by Kristen taking a role in this turd.
"Here's another in a long, long line of predictable horror movies aimed at teens.
Like so many tired teen horror films before it, we get a semi-interesting premise that is never given the chance to take off the ground. We get a tried-and-beaten-to-the-ground formula that's becoming nearly a parody of itself. "Pulse" has the laziest of horror film ambitions: an endless series of characters making slow, deliberate walks to some sort of random objective (in this movie, it is usually a computer screen) with the steadily rising score beneath their paces. And then, the orchestra crashes, the sound effects are blasted at dangerously high levels, and something (ghost, corpse, animal, landlady, Dick Cheney, etc.) bursts out at the character. Over and over and over. If the characters aren't doing that, they are setting up an opportunity to do so. Again and again and again. Such payoffs are not payoffs. They are sudden, very loud noises that explode suddenly after rising, slightly-softer noise.
It's tough to tell whether the director is a cookie-cutter hack emulating everything that's been released in the last five years, or if he is just being ordered by the studio to emulate everything that's been released in the last five years. Either way, "Pulse" is a dreary movie with nothing to say and little thrills to share. Mostly, it's a take-off of "The Ring"...we get the always-overcast urban setting. A Naomi Watts look-alike as our lead. A lonely piano hits nearly the same keys as the above-mentioned film. And we get the quick cuts of single scenes. Instead of the mysterious video used in "The Ring", we get equally mysterious images in computer screens. At times, it has the disorienting sensation of watching a film student's class project titled "How To Make Creepy Images Like What Was Used In That Video In The Ring".
Throughout the movie, characters go through the motions as if they've just been locked in a room watching a marathon of awful teen horror films. They laugh, they grieve, they act confused, they act scared, they act concerned, blah, blah, blah.
A plot summary for those interested: an internet virus is rapidly spreading across a college campus. Basically, ghostly images appear on your computer screen, and then at some point in the near future, a ghostly image will sneak up on you and take what appears to be your soul. Thus, you are left very sad to the point of being despondent. After that, you off yourself. Or you just spontaneously combust into ash. Either way.
The better looking of our leads manage to doge the virus, unlike literally the rest of civilization, despite the fact that they are more immersed in the virus than anyone else. Funny how that works. Whether or not they succeed in stopping this ghost virus (if you're the screenwriter there's no need to explain anything beyond "ghost virus" when all you're writing are set-ups for characters to peek slowly into things) is for you to find out. If you choose to find out, God bless you. Please keep in mind that it is a real bitch getting your ticket refunded at the average multiplex." --mikey7108088, imdb.com
this movie was not that bad? any horror movie watched loud enough can be scary! expecially ghost movies. i watched this around 11:00 when i was sick one night and this movie made me jump right out of my bed expecially when the thing came out the washer. this was a remake i think deserves more than it gets and i personally cant wait for 2 and 3.
Posted By: jmpollack at 11:08am, February 20, 2008
OK. I will be the first person to say anything about this piece of trash in cinema. I'm sorry PG-13 really. We can do better than that. Pulse is not scary nor should it be scary unless you are a 12 year old blond bimbo. The fact that studios are willing to allow these films to be dumbed down to get a bigger audience is appaling. Pulse is a perfect example to this. Look at the cast, You have Kirsten Bell form Veronica Mars, (Teen show, Christina Millian (used to be on disney channel) and Rick Gonzalez (coach carter amongst other teen films). Throw in Ian Somerhalder (Lost) and we have a cast for children. The only reasn why I saw this movie was because I got it for free. And even then I didn't want it. It sits on my shelf and collects dust. I tried using it as a coaster but it wasn't even good enough for that.
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