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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Haruhiko Katô & Kumiko Asô | |
Performer: | Shinji Takeda, Kôji Yakusho & Jun Fubuki | |
Directed by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | |
Screenwriting by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | |
Director of Photography: | Jun'ichirô Hayashi |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
A handful of creepy visuals can't make up for a mountain of shortcomings.
Arizona Republic
Rating: 2/4 --
...the requisite happy ending smacks of studio interference...
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Reel Film Reviews
3 stars out of 4 -- PULSE possesses the dark art to make your pulse pound and your hair stand on end -- with no cheating.
Rolling Stone
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
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 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
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
Product Description:
"Would you like to meet a ghost'" This foreboding question is posed to a young man by his own computer, suddenly able to dial up to the Internet--by itself. Unfortunately for the characters in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE, inquisitive PCs are the least of their problems. What begins as the seemingly isolated suicide of a computer hacker in Tokyo leads to a series of mysterious disappearances and deaths in this bone-chilling thriller. As Michi (Kumiko Aso), a young woman working on a rooftop plant nursery, attempts to find out what happened to her deceased friend, a slacker named Kawashima (Haruhiko Katô) reports his computer's unusual behavior to Harue (Koyuki), an attractive tech specialist. Separately, they witness an unraveling horror which manifests itself in haunting digital images, coal-black stains, doors sealed with red tape, and lingering apparitions--all leading to a steady decrease in Tokyo's population.
Like RING, another prime example of Japanese horror, Kurosawa's PULSE manages to take a B-movie plot and elevate to a level of both terror and artistry that's rarely, if ever, seen in the West. Rather than relying on gore and special effects, the film uses expert cinematography (courtesy of Junichirô Hayashi, also the cameraman on RING and Kurosawa's CHARISMA), bleak backdrops, creepy music, and the good ol' power of suggestion to create what eventually becomes an existential nightmare. To call PULSE "scary" would be a grave understatement; most viewers will never look at a roll of red tape the same way again.
Like RING, another prime example of Japanese horror, Kurosawa's PULSE manages to take a B-movie plot and elevate to a level of both terror and artistry that's rarely, if ever, seen in the West. Rather than relying on gore and special effects, the film uses expert cinematography (courtesy of Junichirô Hayashi, also the cameraman on RING and Kurosawa's CHARISMA), bleak backdrops, creepy music, and the good ol' power of suggestion to create what eventually becomes an existential nightmare. To call PULSE "scary" would be a grave understatement; most viewers will never look at a roll of red tape the same way again.
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- UPC: 876964000055
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