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Pulse
Directed by
Jim Sonzero
PG-13
2006
88m
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4.7
11%
27%
5.1
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When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of college students rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
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Cast of Pulse
Kristen Bell
Mattie
Ian Somerhalder
Dexter
Christina Milian
Isabelle Fuentes
Rick Gonzalez
Stone
Jonathan Tucker
Josh
Samm Levine
Tim
Octavia Spencer
Landlady
Ron Rifkin
Dr. Waterson
Joseph Gatt
Dark Figure
Kel O'Neill
Douglas Zieglar
Zach Grenier
Professor Cardiff
Riki Lindhome
Janelle
John Burke
Newscaster
Mike J. Regan
Phantom
Steve Tom
Male Newscaster #2
Brad Dourif
Thin Bookish Guy
Christine Barger
Goth Girl
Di Quon
Christina
Moira Price
Sarah
Robert Clotworthy
Calvin
Pulse Ratings & Reviews
UGO
Brian Tallerico
The unanswered questions in the original added to the mood, but by trying to answer even just a few of them, this Pulse just gets more confusing and less scary.
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
A handful of creepy visuals can't make up for a mountain of shortcomings.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A curiously dull Americanization of one of the finest examples of subtle, moody J-horror out there.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It would have been a lot scarier if the film's college kids, haunted by comrades who stare back at them from cyber-hell, looked like they had lives worth saving.
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.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
What was dreadful and trance-like in the original feels here like nothing-much-at-all sandwiched between some stock horror jolts.
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
The J-horror remake wheel spins again, spitting out this pathetic Americanization of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's apocalyptic fable.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
The technophobic horror flick Pulse is a cautionary tale that could have been dreamed up by a frustrated parent: If you don't get off of that computer, kids, you'll turn into a zombie.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Most contemporary Japanese horror movies concentrate on mood and don't much bother with plot. But this brain-dead remake is full of yammering about suicide clusters, flu epidemics and hard drives.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Hideously ugly to look at and not even worth following.
New York Times
Nathan Lee
The American version of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse mimics the plot fundamentals, but lacks any traces of Mr. Kurosawas creepy minimalism and conceptual rigor.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
What's the lesson here? Should we all be talking to each other with two cans and a string?
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Like Naomi Watts and Sarah Michelle Gellar before her, Bell spends this Hollywood remake of a Japanese cult hit at an emotional dead end.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It's an awful way for it all to crumble down into nothingness, and had director Jim Sonzero managed to hold it together for just a teensy bit longer I'd have been more than willing to give Pulse a pass.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie is far from great, but it certainly holds your attention.
Variety
Robert Koehler
A dumbed-down remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's disturbingly abstract Japanese horror film.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
This techno-themed horror film isn't nearly as scary as watching your computer crash.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
It's intended as an indictment of our overdependence on communications devices, but the premise is out-of-this-world unbelievable.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
An hour into the movie, I shut out the story and dialogue entirely and just focused on the visuals. That made the boring Bell and the cast of third-string teen movie supporting players somehow easier to bear.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
This domestic redo of Kurosawa's ghost story is a reasonably sinister scary movie that faithfully taps into its predecessor's existential dread and distrust of technology.
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