Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
"Pulse" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 01/05/2012
A computer programmer succumbs to depression and suicide after viewing a mysterious website featuring enigmatic figures in morbid situations. One of the original of the new wave of J Horrors, Pulse actually has a far stronger premise than most; that the spirit world has become vastly overpopulated and started to bleed into the living world. Unfortunately the story barely explores the implications of the idea til the last 20 minutes or so, leaving the vast majority of the rest of the film as a bunch of kids staring at pasty faced figures lurking in darkened corners and getting spooked by mysterious phone calls. In other words, exactly the same recipe as every other J Horror out there. It's quite atmospheric and the audio-visuals are occasionally interesting but by the time it had actually …
Rating of
4/4
Brillaint + Great = Grelliant!
The Marowak - wrote on 02/17/2009
Hey there horror drudgees! Have you been good or were you bad, therefore dead, and are now looking for that special, delicious frequency to get back to the land of the living? By the way, the land of the living doesn't include Montana!
Meanwhile bat-fans, the dead people of Japan watched Poltergeist and White Noise and decided televisions and the radio are simply suck, sucky, suckiest, and sucktasticmagorical ways to try to get back at you. Let's think now... how else, if one were dead, would one come back? ... A-ha! The internet! That little demon has itself a sight that is letting the dead through! Geepers drudgees!
On a serious note though sweetums, this movie is awesome! Goose-bumps, chills, and a hand over the ol' eyes made me wish for a snuggle buddy! This one is wound so …
Rating of
3/4
80%
CJP - wrote on 10/27/2008
Action: 3/3 + Comedy: 0.5/2 + Good vs Evil: 1/1 + Love/Sex: 1/1 + Special Effects: 0.5/1 + Plot: 1/1 + Music: 1/1 = 8/10 or 80%.
Pulse takes on the existential dilemma of what happens when one dies. It claims that the greatest conceptual hell is complete isolation, denoting that everyone wants out, and every single frame of the film is a delicate addition to the overtly tense situation of these dead returning. It also shows the common man's reaction to having the answer to the question "what happens when one dies?" and it is not pretty.
Pulse builds tension on an unusually high level. The viewer will always feel that something is there or something is just about to manifest. The end result is that the isolated (or the dead) want the same thing as the non-isolated (the living), …
