Pulse (Kairo)
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A mysterious webcam site claims to offer visitors the chance to connect with the dead in Japanese horror god Kiyoshi Kurosawa's heart-stopping film. A group of friends are rocked by another friend's suicide, and his ghostly reappearance in computer video images. Is he trying to reach out from the afterlife, or is something more sinister afoot? When they find a mysterious disk in the dead man's apartment it launches a program that seems to present odd, ethereal broadcasts of people in their apartments. But there's something strange about these transmissions... (In Japanese with English Subtitles)
A strange website claims to offer visitors the chance to connect with the dead.
Cast: Koyuki, Haruhiko Kato, Aso Kumiko
Member Reviews
Some great and uncanny moments throughout this. The storylines don't quite stitch together seamlessly and it feels like the connective tissue was either left on the cutting room floor or was never there to begin with. Still, despite this and the many questions left unanswered about the how/why of it all, it was a very effective tone piece with imagery that'll stay with me.
*Spoilers* i liked that the eerie and creepy factors were there...but i just didn't understand a lot of it. Yes, i could read the subtitles obviously, but, still i found myself thinking "what is actually happening"? I kind of came to a conclusion that the red taped rooms were to be avoided...else you seemed doomed. But didn't know exactly how these red taped rooms came to be? Not entirely. And the theory of ghosts spilling over into another realm...ok, but still, so confused... 4 skulls for the eerie atmosphere, rather than jump scare-y, it was still quite creepy cuz of the eeriness. 1 skull off because i was, as i said, very confused.
An excellent piece of Japanese horror, with some genuinely creepy moments. The director wisely steers away from cheap jump acares to focus more on a sense of building dread, in which the incidental music plays a big part. Absolutely one to watch with the lights off - but turn off your computer first...
That one scene is great, the rest is a mixed bag and the ending is too crazy
to slow