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DVD : PulseIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $10.49 You Save: $4.49 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT EAN: 0876964000055 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Magnolia Manufacturer: Magnolia Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Magnolia Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 21, 2006 Running Time: 119 minutes Studio: Magnolia Theatrical Release Date: November 09, 2005 Sales Rank: 17702 MPN: 10005 Related Items: Editorial Review: Product Description: Often referred to as one of the scariest films ever made PULSE tells the story of a group of young friends rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own and his subsequent ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. Is he trying to contact them from beyond the grave or is there something more sinister afoot? The mysterious floppy disk they find in the dead man's apartment may provide a clue but instead launches a program that seems to present odd ethereal transmissions of people engaged in solitary activities in their apartments. But there is something not quite right in the appearance and behavior of these lonely souls. Soon there are more strange deaths and disappearances within the group terrifying rooms sealed in red tape and the appearance of more ghosts as the city of Tokyo - and the world - is slowly drained of life.System Requirements:Running Time: 119 MInFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 876964000055 Manufacturer No: 10005 Amazon.com: A simplistic way to describe this creepy, atmospheric entry into the J-horror genre would be to call it Ringu (and its Americanized cousin, The Ring) with computers and the Internet standing in for telephones and videotape. Pulse certainly has the right credentials of psychological drama and existential technique to make it a standout of the scary style that has made this variety of Asian film so popular worldwide. The mysterious ambiance is heightened by several intersecting stories that outwardly have little connection and add up to a real head-scratcher of an ending. Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa brings a consistently enigmatic touch to the disturbing plot threads. One of them concerns a young man who starts seeing strange onscreen images that appear to be ghosts trapped in his new computer. Being somewhat technologically illiterate he enlists a woman at the local university to help him interpret the bizarre visual messages he receives. The vibe becomes increasingly more unsettling, especially as his modem starts connecting itself to the Internet for communication from beings that seem to be trapped, unable to do anything but mumble chilling pleas for help. Startling suicides, shadowy smudges of human forms that appear on walls, rooms sealed with red masking tape that are opened to reveal unseen terrors, and deserted backstreets of a noir-tinged Tokyo are just some of the thematic images that make Pulse such a spooky, unanswerable entry into the world of first-rate J-horror classics. --Ted Fry Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Philosophically scary, emotional chillsThis is a uniquely Japanese horror movie, with little in the way of gore or jump-out-of-your seat thrills. Instead it slides inexorably into a vision of an apocalyptic world arising not out of atom bombs but alienation. Its perspective is fundamentally existentialist; all but a few of the characters talk about loneliness, how no one can ever be connected to anyone else, the essential isolation of being human -- even after death. This is a starkly horrifying concept in the context of Japanese culture, ... Read More Rating: - Kyoshi Kurosawa Is The Greatest Horror Director That Ever LivedThe philosophical premise of Kairo is nihilism expressed through loneliness. The superficial "connections" that one sustains with other people are conveyed as brittle, meaningless trivialities that shatter when confronted with the relentless isolation that exists on a much deeper level. Not one person is murdered in this 119 minute film for the very fact that the victims are consumed with a sense of eternal loneliness - many times caused by seeing spirits - and therefore take their own lives. There are no ... Read More Rating:  - Dark and creepyThis movie is a real downer. Seriously, don't watch it if you're depressed. Loneliness and despair are themes that are stressed (very effectively) throughout the film, which features many dark settings and images. Similar to "The Ring" and "The Grudge", the plot was a little hard to grasp and tended to jump around. The characters were not that developed, except for the young guy who played the lead, so it was kind of hard to get a handle on who was who and what their relationship to one another ... Read More Rating:  - Pulse won't make your pulse beat any fasterI was hoping for something really scary, but Pulse's plot moves slowly and just isn't that frightening. In the beginning it's a little scary, but once you finally discover the concept you'll see it's pretty lame and the ending is even lamer. By the middle of the movie I was so frustrated with it's slowness, poor sound effects and lack of scariness that I was ready to turn it off and put in another DVD. Unfortunately, my friend made me see it through and he was disappointed with the movie as well. Afterward, ... Read More Rating: - seriously scarySpeaking as someone who is rarely frightened by a horror film, (and I have seen quite a bit) this 37 year old didn't want to turn his lights off after seeing this. If your scary-bone is ultra sensitive to the eerie (as opposed to hacker/slasher shock value) then this movie will haunt the pants off of you. I felt that the plot's pacing/timing was perfect, and even the most frightening things had a way of coming off remarkably understated, which made it even creepier. The visuals are what ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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