Dimension Extreme has had some hits and misses since the company first came about, but one thing the company does have is a bunch of horror movies that more or less just decent horror movies than anything else. While the remake barely made it’s budget back domestically, it still did make money in the overseas market, and being that it was film that was a remake of popular Asian film, it’s no wonder that Dimension went about making a direct to DVD sequel with PULSE 2.
PULSE 2 brings us into a whole other world. Where in the first film the virus was contained to just a few young adults, this time it is spreading all over the world. People everywhere are living in fear as the ghosts of their loved one, enemies and neighbors are out seeking the living to infect them with the same virus that killed them and made them what they are. When a young girl goes missing both her mother and father go looking for her. Her mother becomes victim to the virus and he father loses all hope in finding her. But as luck would have it, he does, and the two travel to a remote location where the virus has not spread yet. But as always terror will travel and eventually it reaches this remote area of the earth where the cycle begins all over again and a man must fight this evil in order to save the life of his young daughter.
Jamie Bamber of Battlestar Galactica fame star in the lead role of Stephen, the man looking for his daughter played by Karley Scott Collins. The two did well together on the small screen in this film and both were very believable as father and daughter in this movie. There performances stood out among the rest of the cast. Not to take anything away from every other actor in this film, as the supporting cast did a decent job as well. But it was the chemistry between the movies main two characters that really got me into this one. On another note the script for this film is not half bad. It does start off very slow, yet it does give off a very creepy post apocalyptic feel right from the get go while it tries to build on it’s story and character development. It does so slowly, but the script begins to pick it up in it’s second act, and then hits you with a twist in the end, of which I didn’t really care for.
The movies production value was nothing special, but it did look decent. The sets did display a world full of dreadfulness and chaos, and they gave off that look; yet at the same time it also looked like the world around the sets was a bit two clean for a world gone crazy. The visual effects were nothing special, and yet again we get ghosts that look like fuzzy television screens. Yes, I know they are supposed to look like that, but they did not look as scary or near as good as they did in the first film. The make-up effects, although there was not much were pretty good, and the overall feel and look of the movie really made it look as if the director really wanted to put the viewer in the world he was trying to create.
In the end, I guess you can say PULSE 2 is another sequel to a remake that you can add to the fire. While it’s not the greatest of movies it was still somewhat enjoyable. I particularly can relate to the father/daughter bond that took place in the film, and can give it that much respect for the way it portrayed the two characters and how a father will do anything to protect his daughter at all costs. In a nutshell, I enjoyed most of the film, but felt the twist at the end, didn’t help the story end on a good note. It’s not as good as the original movie, but it’s not a bad film. Probably worth renting if you really liked the first one or you have to choose at least something halfway decent among the sea of crappy horror films that litter rental store shelves. It’s nothing great, but it does have a somewhat comprehensible story.
– Horror Bob
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