Jun 23 2009
PULSE
More proof American filmmakers can’t remake foreign horror flicks.
PLOT
Josh is a guy who gets attacked by a weird ghost and then is later discovered dead by his girlfriend Mattie. Mattie starts getting IMs from his computer, but she decides that there must be a problem with the computer. She finds out that the new owner of the computer Dex has never turned it on, but the messages keep coming to her and her friends. She gets a letter from him that he mailed before he died, along with red tape and a note. Dex then finds messages Josh sent to a mysterious doctor and a virus he was working on to stop “them”. Turns out that a virus caused ghosts and spirits to escape into the real world and now they’re out for death. Oh and they can come through any signal.
TRIVIA
Co-written by horror movie icon Wes Craven.
Followed by two sequels (which I also reviewed) that went straight to DVD.
THOUGHTS
I have to admit that I actually own Pulse, not because I thought it was a great movie, but because it was cheap and I hadn’t seen it before I bought it. The first time I watched it, I actually thought it was fairly good and now that I’ve seen it again, I wonder what I was smoking back then. The only real fun about the movie is Kristen Bell as Mattie and some of the supporting characters. I love some of the background characters and I’ll admit that some of the CGI stuff wasn’t bad either. Pulse still wasn’t that good of a movie though.
