International Horror Series: Pulse
One of the lesser-known—but most potent—films from the modern golden age of Japanese horror, Pulse creates an unparalleled spell of unease!
Film/Video Theater
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001, Japan)
Introduced by Scott Woods, Streetlight Guild founder
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 / 4
Overwhelming existential dread and strong themes of suicide.
See the entire International Horror lineup.
All films, unless otherwise noted, are $10 general public, $8 Wex members and adults over 55, and $5 for students
ALL INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILMS ARE FREE FOR OHIO STATE STUDENTS WITH TICKET
Goreometer is a scale of 1–4 with 1 being low/no gore and 4 being for gorehounds!