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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: HD DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019796613
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Widescreen
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 38492
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 2006
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Description:
Electronic devices serve as gateways for a terrifying evil that can’t be turned off.
Amazon.com:
Pulse provides clear evidence that by the summer of 2006, the cycle of American remakes of Japanese horror films had reached its inevitable downturn. After peaking with the Ring and scoring a marginal success with The Grudge, the cycle was almost guaranteed to sink to the low-point of this unnecessary and mostly lackluster remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 shocker. It benefits from a standard upgrade in CGI effects and doom-laden 'bleak-chic' atmosphere, but it's almost completely devoid of suspense as a group of college students led by Mattie (played by Kristin Bell, TV's Veronica Mars) investigate the suicide of Mattie's boyfriend and discover a kind of wi-fi conduit that allows malevolent spirits to be transmitted from their afterlife to our world via the Internet – think of it as kind of a broadband connection from hell, if you will. Pretty soon it's obvious that Pulse is trying (as Kurosawa's original film before it) to serve as cautionary tale about how we've allowed our lives to become numbed and devalued by using technologies (computers, cell-phones, PDAs, etc.) that keep us all connected at the expense of personal intimacy. Many of the creepiest images from the original Pulse are carried over here, and director Jim Sonzero does his best to keep the cautionary themes intact, but at some point (and after a great deal of pre-release tinkering to fit the obligatory PG-13 rating for the lucrative teen market) you have to ask yourself: why bother? --Jeff Shannon
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I saw PULSE (the "unrated" version) just 5 days ago, and I feel even now that I can hardly remember half of what happened in the film...so generic and uninteresting did it turn out to be.
The film has a promising premise. Ghosts are using the internet to enter into our world, because they operate on a frequency that we've now been able to tune in to. I like that...it's a clean, simple concept that could have gone in a million directions. In PULSE, at least initially, it appears ... Read More
Rating:  -
It contains no suspense nor horror. I watched it in the theatre and got bored after 30 minutes. The special effects are exactly like those of a bad video game. I mean I can see they look obviously fake. The acting is like that of a bad B movie. It seems remaking a Japanese hit movie does not guarantee a success in North America.
Save your money on this.
Rating:  -
This one was just meh...it was run-of-the-mill horror, designed to make you freak out about your technology use. I am pretty sure I got this free bundled with my Halloween remake and thats why it was on my DVD shelf. I watched it all the way through and then escorted it to my "sell" pile.
Rating: -
Pulse makes several of the typical mistakes that recent horror films seem to repeat. Despite great cinematography and special effects work, the movie is saddled by a ridiculous script that works too hard explaining the back-story yet still winds up making no sense. What's worse, they obviously had a budget and several well known actors. This could have been a good movie, but it succeeds only in startling those with jittery nerves.
If I ever saw the original, I have since forgotten ... Read More
Rating: -
Another remake that doesn,t work. Okay it starts out alright in the first 15 minutes then the rest of the movie is a huge let down. They totally butchered the storyline. Don,t waste your time with this boring mess.
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