Pulse (Blu-ray)
You are now infected.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Weinstein
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kristen Bell | |
Performer: | Ian Somerhalder, Rick Gonzalez, Samm Levine, Kel O'Neill, Ron Rifkin, Christina Milian & Brad Dourif | |
Directed by | Jim Sonzero | |
Edited by | Bob Mori, Robert K. Lambert & Kirk M. Morri | |
Screenwriting by | Wes Craven & Ray Wright | |
Composition by | Elia Cmiral | |
Produced by | Anant Singh, Brian Cox, Michael Leahy, Joel Soisson & Brian Cox | |
Director of Photography: | Mark Plummer | |
Executive Production by | Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
UGO
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.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/5 --
A handful of creepy visuals can't make up for a mountain of shortcomings.
Arizona Republic
Rating: C- --
What was dreadful and trance-like in the original feels here like nothing-much-at-all sandwiched between some stock horror jolts.
AV Club
As the ghosts suck the life out of their victims, the audience suffers the same fate.
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Time Out
It helps that the hot blonde is Kristen Bell ("Veronica Mars") who can basically do anything (she even sings - see "Reefer Madness") and remain effortlessly adorable and charming.
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Pajiba
The potential it has to be an adult thriller is ruined because it's just more teen marketed crap.
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Cinema Crazed
Product Description:
Jim Sonzero's remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Japanese horror hit KAIRO (2001) is a techno-thriller cowritten by Wes Craven (SCREAM, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET). Kristen Bell (VERONICA MARS) stars as Mattie, a student whose ex-boyfriend, Josh (Jonathan Tucker), goes through a strange transformation, then hangs himself. His depression seems to have emanated from a computer program he was working on--which continues running even when it's not plugged in. As they delve deeper into what happened to Josh, Mattie and her best friends, Isabell (Christina Milian), Stone (Rick Gonzalez), and Tim (FREAKS AND GEEKS veteran Samm Levine), start seeing bizarre images that none of them can explain as more and more people around them are dying unexplainable deaths. With the help of Dexter (LOST's Ian Somerhalder), Mattie begins putting the details together, leading to a frightening and surprising conclusion. Sonzero's feature-film directorial debut is a claustrophobic examination of where technology such as computers and cell phones might lead, and loosely falls into the same genre as films like Takashi Miike's ONE MISSED CALL (2003) and Gore Verbinski's THE RING (2002). Elia Cmiral's creepy score adds to the tension.