Pulse

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Mr. Vincent Daly, how are we doing across the table, sir? Thomas, how's it going? It is going okay with me.

How was your week of movies, man? You know, the week here was real interesting.

It

definitely liked it more the second time.

I watched Pulse from 2001, which is a Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie, which you and I watched Cure.

was pretty good this one was that the one where that guy was like in the wall he was like tucked in is there a part he was like in a little wall compartment i feel like i

don't know something about that reminds me hey

Well, one of my f- all, it was definitely another movie to consider for a future episode too just because, I mean, gosh, I don't know.

I, there's something about Pulse.

Yeah.

Uh, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse that really unnerves me, and it, it features this, you know, like computer virus that opens a portal to the realm of the dead and just allows vengeful spirits to travel along internet connections in this case, and they can sort of like download this life force from their victims.

And I don't know, that, that whole scenario and the tone and the, the feeling of dread when I watch that movie is just unlike anything, uh, I've seen.

And I know that like J-horror kind of captures that a lot, but I, there's just something about that version of Pulse where I also think of it as a great portrayal of depression- Because a lot of these people are really disconnected from their emotions and, you know, dehumanized to some degree and dreading just what's gonna happen to them.

And, you know, eventually the movie ends.

So I won't say because there, I won't, for people who haven't seen it, I won't say how everything plays out, but it just, oof, it really gets to me by the end in a major way.

It's driving me fucking insane, actually.

But Sony Screen Gems and Spyglass are developing a reimagining of the Japanese horror movie Pulse, which, correct me if I'm wrong, was the 2061 a remake or just another movie called Pulse? Pulse.

It was a remake, yes.

Yeah, I thought it was.

Um, but that guy is directing this remake of pulse, which is a script from Luke Petrowski who wrote like the night house.

And I believe the hell raiser remake that I didn't like, but, I think that's also the guy who wrote, wasn't it Super Dark Times? Isn't that that person? Yeah, I think so.

Anyway, Pulse is the Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie that follows two groups of people who discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the internet.

That movie is, to this day, such a reference point.

It's a, you know, that's different.

I do consider Pulse, though.

We talked about... 100%.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse.

I think that's maybe my favorite of quote unquote J-horror, which to me means ghost story, childhood trauma.

These guys were elevated way before The Witch, all right? That era of spooky ghost stories and past trauma and a little bit of folk coming in there that started really popularly with Ringu, the original was 98.

Do you remember that one? Jennifer Connelly.

Connelly? Sorry, Connelly.

When you're looking for a horror movie to scare you, what are you looking for?

Ooh, to scare me? Honestly, that's why I picked this, because I had never seen it, Pulse.

And there's so many traits about it that I gravitate towards when I want something to actually freak me out.

There is kind of a found footage element to it.

And you're like, but I prefer this one.

And I was like, hell yeah, let's do it.

And that was Pulse 2001.

Yeah.