I was really bored yesterday, so we decided to get a movie on-demand - the concept of this indie film called “Pulse” seemed interesting, so we watched. Consider this a PSA - don not watch this movie unless you want something really funny instead of the horror movie the movie tries to be.
Briefly, the story is that some “hacker” kids working on a “telecom” project accidentally discover new frequencies that allow ghosts to escape and come back into our world. The ghosts then suck the spirit out of you and you get addicted to the internet….OK, I made up the last few words, but the subtext underlying the movie is that everyone is so addicted to technology, they are not relating to other humans…illustrated to an irnocally hilarious effect, when the heroine is being chased by demons coming out of her cell phone - the genius that she is, she keeps checking the cell phone for signal (lost signal means lost demons) instead of simply throwing it out of the car.
There are some hilarious incidents like a dead boyfriend sending IMs to the heroine…she suspects someone broke into his computer…huh? I had no idea I could use my IM account only on my computer…I was naive enough to think anybody could log in from anywhere with the right username/password.
Seriously, the movie is a “tech” movie made for people of two generations ago - it has a computer into which the hero downloads a virus…the computer then starts spewing…”system overload”…”system crashing”. Yep - apparently we just get the blue screen of death while movie computers actually warn people that they are in the process of crashing. Eminently forgettable, I say!
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