"Something strange is going on," murmurs a young woman towards the beginning of the Tokyo-set Pulse in an observation of glaring understatement. Writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa attempts to weave ...

Death. It’s the building block of the horror genre. No matter what the subject, every film comes back to that one basic fear. And why not? Nothing scares us more than the uncertainty of the grave.

Kurosawa’s cautionary philosophical tale uses the familiar tropes of dystopian sci-fi and supernatural horror to explore an internet-fixated world where online communication has eroded social cohesion ...

A website, which at first appears to be merely a scary hoax with an irresistible marketing ploy, turns out to be run by a sinister and deadly force. As people repeatedly tap into the site's ...