pulse, 2006

Director: Jim Sonzero
Starring: Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder
Tagline: There are some frequencies we were never meant to find.

Basic plot: A guy hacks another guy's computer and lets loose the ultimate virus - one that attacks people.

I actually saw this in the theater when it came out. I went with Maryanne. I'm not sure if any of you have ever gone to see a scary movie with Maryanne - she screams and she grabs. Needlesss to say, i laughed at her.

I watched it again recently when it came on cable. It was pretty freaky because about 45 minutes into it, the channel info bar that you can access that shows across the bottom of the screen kept buzzing in and out (i wasn't doing anything). Then my cable box front shows "fail" and then "boot". Too freaky when watching a movie about dead people that use our wireless systems as a doorway to get us.

Enough of my viewings.... You should really give this film a chance - the screenplay was co-written by Wes Craven and it's a good little film.

Favorite things after one viewing:

1. "It keeps them out. Don't know why." The red duct tape - both the idea of it and the contrast it makes with the rest of the staging because the film is so greyish, overcast, doom-like. Also, there is no blood in this film and it's very interesting to have the color red associated with safety.

2. The guy getting sucked into the wall.

3. Izzy in the laundry room. I won't say anymore.

4. The car accident - fantastic sequence for this scene and comes out of nowhere.

5. "They are the system."

Recommended.