PULSE (2006)

PULSE (2006). Jiim Sonzero, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, original Japanese script; Wes Craven English script. USA: The Weinstein Company et al. (prod. and dist.), 2006.

Updating an Americanization of Japanese original horror film PULSE (2001) (q.v.), putting, so to speak, spirits into the material world via wireless technology. IMDb plot summary by "Production": "Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used that technology as a doorway into ours. Now, imagine the connection we made can't be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they'll get in, you'll be infected and they'll be able to take from you what they don't have anymore—life." Note idea of technology as connection/doorway—portal—into the uncanny.