Pulse (2006 film)
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| Directed by | Jim Sonzero |
| Produced by | Michael Leahy Joel Soisson Anant Singh Brian Cox |
| Screenplay by |
Wes Craven Ray Wright |
| Based on |
Pulse by Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Starring |
Kristen Bell Ian Somerhalder Christina Milian Rick Gonzalez Zach Grenier |
| Music by | Elia Cmiral |
| Cinematography | Mark Plummer |
| Edited by | Robert K. Lambert Bob Mori Kirk M. Morri |
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| Distributed by | The Weinstein Company Dimension Films |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20.5 million |
| Box office | $29,907,685 |
Pulse is a 2006 American horror film and remake of the Japanese horror film, Kairo; Pulse was written by Wes Craven and Ray Wright, and directed by Jim Sonzero. The film stars Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian and a cameo by Brad Dourif.
When Josh Ockmann (Jonathan Tucker) enters a dark university library intending to meet his friend Douglas Zeigler (Kel O'Neill), he is attacked by a humanoid spirit that sucks the life force out of him. Some days later, Josh's girlfriend, Mattie Webber (Kristen Bell), visits his apartment, seeing evidence that it has not been well kept. Josh tells Mattie to wait in the kitchen while he walks off. While waiting she finds Josh's pet cat, locked in a closet and dying from severe malnutrition. But when she rushes to tell him, she finds he has committed suicide by hanging himself with an Ethernet cable.
Mattie and her friends begin to receive online messages from Josh asking for help but assume that Josh's computer is still on and that a virus is creating the messages. Mattie learns that Josh's computer has been sold to Dex McCarthy (Ian Somerhalder), who finds a number of strange videos on the computer. Mattie receives a package that Josh mailed two days prior to his death. Inside are rolls of red tape and a message telling her that the tape keeps "them" out, although he does not know why. Later, Dex visits Mattie and shows her video messages Josh was sending to Ziegler. Josh had hacked Ziegler's computer system and then distributed a virus. This virus had unlocked a portal that connected the realm of the living to the realm of the dead. Josh believed he had coded a counter to the virus and wanted to meet Ziegler at the library. Josh's counter-program is found on a memory stick taped inside the PC case with red tape.
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