SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

SnoopyStyle Josh Ockmann is attacked in the library. His girlfriend Mattie Webber (Kristen Bell) finds him in a disturbing state at his apartment and then he hangs himself. After getting mysterious computer messages, her friend Stone (Rick Gonzalez) goes to shut down Joss's computer but it's already taken. Stone is attacked just like Josh. The landlady sold Dexter McCarthy (Ian Somerhalder) the computer. Josh had sent Mattie 3 rolls of red duct tape 2 days before he died. The rolls are split up between Mattie and her friends Izzie Fuentes (Christina Milian) and Tim (Samm Levine). There is an epidemic of suicides in the area.The movie is saturated with the color blue. Along with the Eastern European location, this drains the life out of the movie. It tries quite a few jump scares. Mostly, they don't work because the story is lifeless. The other problem is that the spirits come out of nowhere randomly. It actually gets a bit boring.

Woodyanders The spirits of the dead discover a way to contact the living and enter into their world through electronic devices. Moreover, these decidedly nasty and dangerous spirits suck the lifeforce from the living. A select group of folks find out what's going on, but can they figure out a way to stop the angry and lethal spirits before it's too late? Director Jim Sonzero, working from an inspired and intriguing script by Wes Craven and Ray Wright, relates the absorbing premise at a steady pace, stages the shock set pieces with considerable flair and skill (a sequence in an underground apartment laundry room is especially harrowing), and does an expert job of creating and maintaining a potently spooky, paranoid and sinister atmosphere which becomes more increasingly eerie and unsettling as the plot unfolds towards a startlingly downbeat surprise apocalyptic conclusion. This film further benefits from solid acting by the sturdy cast: Kristen Bell is appealing as the perky and worried Mattie, Ian Somerhalder is likewise fine as shrewd computer boffin Dexter, Brad Dourif has a neat cameo as a raving doomsayer in a café, plus there are sound contributions from Christina Milian as the sassy Isabelle Fuentes, Rick Gonzalez as slick internet hustler Stone, Samm Levine as the easygoing Tim, and Kel O'Neil as the unhinged Douglas Ziegler. The ghosts are genuinely freaky and scary. The special effects are excellently done and quite convincing. Best of all, there's no obtrusive silly humor to detract from the grim severity of the bleak premise. The filmmakers warrant extra points for staying true to said bleak premise to the literal bitter end. Why, we even get a valid and provocative central point on how our over-reliance on technology could possibly reap the seeds of our eminent destruction. Mark Plummer's gloomy cinematography gives the picture an appropriately dreary look. Elia Cmiral's shivery and ominous score hits the shuddery spot. An unjustly maligned and underrated fright feature.

TheEmoHunter *SPOILERS! DO NOT READ AHEAD UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN IT OR JUST DON'T CARE*Wow. Pulse. This movie is one bizarre trip. Ever since The Ring became a huge success, it has opened the floodgates, inviting American companies to remake Japanese horror films. Most aren't that great. But something in Pulse was a little different. It wasn't incredible or anything, but the surreality of it was mesmerizing. The movie felt like is took place in someone's twisted dream. There is no gore, there are few boo-scares, and the movie relies on sheer creepiness and dark, subliminal imagery to mess with us. The cinematography is pale and cold, and puts a sense of eerie menace even over the happier parts of the movie. The black spots on the people are really disturbing and add very much to the dreaminess, and it raises the question: don't we all just become black spots after death? I haven't seen the original, which I hear is more ponderous than horrific, but I think that movies should be judged individually, not against its predecessor. After all, the predecessors are almost always better. The bathroom scene was truly symbolically original. Normally the ghost would lock the door to the room and crawl out after her, but instead, they insinuated that ghosts are always around us, and aren't always the monstrous and evil beings Hollywood makes them out to be. Sometimes they just want to make themselves known. The lesson they are trying to teach is that technology is very new. We will learn more and more things through what we find, and we won't always like what we learn. And the entire thought of a ghost apocalypse is just plain freakin trippy. I don't really get the plane crashing. After all, those idiots who run the planes won't let you use your cell. My only complaint are the flat actors. But I guess they could've had a signal, maybe. Anyway, Pulse deserved a 6.5 out of 10, for its bizarre take on the modern Japanese import film and dreamy state.

the_real_smile This movie is about a computer freak who, by accident, stumbles over something on the net, that has a life of it's own.I thought about to turn it off after about 20 minutes but my wife insisted to go on with it. I'm glad I did. I see many many movies, not professionally, just for fun, but I'm not easily scared and I have a good taste in movies. This movie gave me some really great creeps!! Sometimes the pace is a bit slow but the very, very, good artwork and the great scares make it worth your while. The atmosphere is great. The artwork might be to much for some people, it might not be what you expect. I think this is the kind of movie where in about ten years everybody says it's a classic.If you like movies like The Ring or Silent Hill, I think you will like this one, it has many elements of both movies.