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Like the J-horror classics Ringu and The Grudge, Pulse portrays a sense of dread that can be passed from one person to the next, in this case through the internet—which in 2001 was still a fairly new technology. A group of young friends is devastated by the sudden suicide of one of their own but even more distressed by his ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure) is one of horror’s great masters of unnerving atmospheres, and with Pulse he taps into one of the greatest anxieties of the internet age: being quietly trapped in our own loneliness forever. In Japanese with English subtitles. (119 mins., 35mm) Goreometer: 3 / 4Overwhelming existential dread and strong themes of suicide. See the entire International Horror lineup.IMAGE CAPTIONPulse, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
