Wes Craven's 2006 Remake of Japanese Horror Movie Kairo, Pulse

A Movie with a Weak Pulse!

A wireless signal is opened up to another dimension of evil forces which are hell bent on killing us all. Going into this movie I didn't know what to expect or that it was an Americanized remake of a Japanese screenplay, Kairo (2001) by Kurosawa, ala The Ring, The Grudge. After learning this and that Wes Craven was a part of it, my expectations all but died.

The story is pretty much like many of Japan's horror/thriller type films the past decade; that being it involves computers, the Internet and cyber technology merged with horror aspects (usually ghosts or revenge by the dead).

In this case, the story is about accidentally hacking into an electronic, wireless signal over which evil forces from another dimension can travel into our world and sort of suck the souls from people, causing them to kill themselves. That's basically it. It sounds a little bit more complex than it really is.

I enjoy technology so that helped a bit with my interest. You don't need to be that much of a tech geek to get into the story nor is it required to understand it but, it helps if you like seeing some tech that you use, actually in use on screen. Of course, in movies though, everyone is a super geek with a degree from MIT and able to hack into high-security sites from the age of ten but, enough of that detour of nitpicking!