Pulse (spoilers)

In movie number two, we have the most typical movie of the new wave of horror movies. If you don't know what I mean just go Watch this movie and you will find out what every single one of these movies is about. Yes, it is another tired Japanese horror movie with the same kind of effects and same kind of ghosts or spirits. I want to say something about this one sets it apart from the others, but in reality the thing that sets it apart, also makes it the most ridiculous. Where most of the movies (ring, grudge or white noise) deal with specific people, Pulse ends up on a massive scale where the entire U.S is dealt some sort of apocalypse. Yes, it is that over the top, complete with abandoned cities and burning jets. The ultimate "message" is that our reliance on technology will destroy us all by allowing some unknown entity to suck the life out of everyone it scream over.


Kristin Bell (Veronica Mars) is a lovely girl and a terrific actress, yet here she is slumming it as a joyless college student whose boyfriend has just killed himself. Luckily for her, she has Ian Somerholder (T.V's Lost) to help her. Also lucky, that Ian is a low life who happens to know everything about computers. The only two things in this movie that illicit any sort of emotion besides laughter are the video Ian and Kristin watch and then the cool ending down into he main server room in the basement of an apartment building. Everything else in this horrid movie are basically laughable, which is exactly what I wanted! This movie is a mess of such massive proportions that one can't help but be amused. Christina Milian, in all her sexy bodied glory, acts particularly horrible as she nears her demise.


To be perfectly honest, the better movie would have been a movie about the after effects of such a "Pulse." show us how people live without phones, TV's or computers. I would want to see that movie. A movie about dead zones and a new America where the people have to live like people did before all of the amazing technological advances we have made. It wouldn't be a horror movie but at least it would be different. I was shocked to see that Wes Craven helped doctor this script and it made me sad that he has been reduced to this. I can only hope this isn't the norm for him these days.