Pulse

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of the most underrated Japanese filmmakers of the last 30 years. Pulse’s eerie vision of a haunted internet still chills for all the reasons you might expect —specters materializing, creepy settings, uncanny sound design, and more. But it sticks with you because Kurosawa got that the ‘net can be a technology of loneliness and isolation, and what’s more unnerving than that? -Lee Gardner

2001 Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1.85:1 Color DCP 119 min. In Japanese with subtitles.