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Pulse (2006)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Aug 09, 2006

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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C-

Details Release Date: Aug 11, 2006; Rated: PG-13; Length: 87 Minutes; Genre: Horror; With: Kristen Bell and Ian Somerhalder

$VAGUE \'PULSE\' Kristen Bell looks lost in this less-than-spirited ghost-in-the-machines pic$

Image credit: Pulse: Mark Plummer

VAGUE 'PULSE' Kristen Bell looks lost in this less-than-spirited ghost-in-the-machines pic

As a passage to the spirit world, technology — videotape, cell phones, computer screens — has lost its novelty. In this American remake of the spooky, more-atmospheric-than-coherent 2005 J-horror thriller, the ghosts blink and crackle into existence with an electromagnetic sputter, but really, they're not so different from the gauzy, see-through spirits of yesteryear. It would have been a lot scarier if Pulse's college kids, haunted by comrades who stare back at them from cyber-hell, looked like they had lives worth saving.

Originally posted Aug 14, 2006

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