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Pulse (2006) -- When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Pulse (2006) -- When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Pulse (2006) -- When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Pulse (2006) -- When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Pulse (2006) -- When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.

Overview

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Director:
Jim Sonzero
Writers (WGA):
Wes Craven (screenplay) and
Ray Wright (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
11 AUGUSZTUS 2006 (USA) more
Tagline:
You are now infected. more
Plot:
When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
The story really killed this movie more (259 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kristen Bell ... Mattie

Ian Somerhalder ... Dexter

Christina Milian ... Isabelle Fuentes

Rick Gonzalez ... Stone
Jonathan Tucker ... Josh

Samm Levine ... Tim

Octavia Spencer ... Landlady (as Octavia L. Spencer)

Ron Rifkin ... Dr. Waterson

Joseph Gatt ... Dark Figure
Kel O'Neill ... Douglas Zieglar

Zach Grenier ... Professor Cardiff

Riki Lindhome ... Janelle
John Burke ... Newscaster
Mike J. Regan ... Phantom (as Mike Regan)

Steve Tom ... Male Newscaster #2
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi terror, disturbing images, language, sensuality and thematic material.
Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Bucharest, Romania more

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Trivia:
In an interview with Fangoria magazine, the director assured readers that key scenes from the original movie, in particular the tower jump suicide, would be retained. This scene is absent from the theatrical version. However, the scene is present in the unrated version more
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Continuity: When Mattie enters her apartment at the beginning of the movie, she is wearing blue jeans. Then, while reading in bed, she is wearing light brown slacks. During her walk from her bed to Izzie's room, she is wearing the light brown slacks and suddenly has blue jeans on again. more
Quotes:
Mattie Webber: [crying] I don't why I didn't see the signs. I should have been there... done something.
Dr. Waterson: Sometimes there aren't any signs. This was a very intensely lonely young man... more than you could ever know, he was very skilled at hiding his loneliness. And when he couldn't hide it anymore, He... hid... himself. Have you ever felt that kind of loneliness?
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Movie Connections:
References Predator (1987) more
Soundtrack:
Delay the Wait more

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45 out of 68 people found the following comment useful.
The story really killed this movie, 14 AUGUSZTUS 2006
4/10
Author: Dave (freaky_dave) from United States

I went to see Pulse knowing it was PG13, so I didn't expect much gore, but couldn't the writer of this story at least have done something more with it?

Pulse is a movie about a hacker who releases a strange computer virus which immediately affects computers everywhere as well as cell phones and even TV screens. We soon find out that the virus is really the dead who have found a way to return to the living world. What they want is the life force of every living being. So it is up to our heroes to try and find a way to stop them before they can consume the entire world.

That's the plot which in my opinion was a rather clever idea. Too bad that the story makes very little sense and is filled with implausibilities that go against the very story that the writer and director were trying to get across. I won't explained these because of the spoilers that would be involved. Of course there aren't many spoilers anyway, since the commercials give much of it away.

The acting was decent, and some of the visuals were nice, but there is very little suspense. This is more of a simple shock film like so many other horror movies that have been filling our theaters for about three years. There is one horror movie that is the exception, and that is The Descent which was released last week. If you want to see one of the best horror movies in the past couple years, go see that one instead and forget about Pulse.

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