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Pulse (2006) on Netflix

PG-1320061h 30mDramaHorrorSci-Fi

A hacker named Josh breaks into Douglas Ziegler's computer and accidentally releases a force that takes people's will to live. His girlfriend Mattie receives messages from his machine.

  • Netflix3.0/5
  • IMDb4.7/1032,454 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes11%

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Plot summary

Mattie is a psychology student whose boyfriend, the hacker Josh, breaks into the computer of Douglas Ziegler, a man developing a powerful wireless signal, and lets a mysterious force loose. The force takes people's will to live, and a suicide epidemic spreads. Mattie and her friends get online messages that seem to come from Josh's machine, which they blame on a virus. The computer is now Dex's, and it holds strange videos. A parcel from Josh contains rolls of red tape and a note saying the tape keeps them out.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pulse (2006)

Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.

  • Wes Craven wrote the remake and was ten days from shooting when Harvey and Bob Weinstein shut the production down, a move meant to push him into directing Cursed instead after he had turned that job down.
  • Kirsten Dunst, not Kristen Bell, was the name attached to the lead when Craven finished his draft in June 2002 with co-writer Vince Gilligan.

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