Pulse

Pulse

Do you want to meet a ghost?

Rating

5.0 (1)

Release Date

2/3/2001

Runtime

119 mins

Overview

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$318,451

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A haunting meditation on urban alienation and despair where Tokyo's sprawling loneliness becomes as suffocating as the supernatural horror itself. Pulse is less about jump scares and more about the creeping dread of disconnection in a world that increasingly feels like it's slipping away.

Mood

MelancholicDread-soakedClaustrophobic

Themes

IsolationMortalityGriefTechnology

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

DesaturatedNaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Nonlinear

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

a slow barrage of internet discconnection.

a film that remains revelant all of these years later, where everyone is a ghost, where everyone openly commits suicide of their true selves and ideals and where isolation through the internet slows time and place.
pulse probably is one of the creepiest horror films ever made and you can definitely see some of its influence on the internet through its horror. read or watch anything related to creepypasta and there is always a hint of pulse there.

everyone is wandering in there own world where they are slowly hanging the rope around their neck and where people grow dissilussioned with the situation.

nicolascagegoons

the scariest film i've ever seen.
it sense of loneliness and using that as a tool to not only scare its characters but the audience aswell. allot of horror films gradually kill off its characters and mostly they are just there for meat fodder but in this film it has a purpose.

the more little its cast gets, the more the lonelines and isolation creeps in as not just the main characters but the places, enviroments get emptier and emptier.
its definitly one of the best horror movies of the 21st century.

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