Pulse

Pulse opens with Josh entering a dark university library intending to meet Douglas Ziegler. There he is attacked by a humanoid spirit that sucks the life force out of him.

At a bar with her friends, Mattie begins to wonder why she has not seen her boyfriend Josh for days and later decides to visit his apartment. Mattie finds Josh sitting alone, his skin pale and lifeless. He asks Mattie to "stay here" and he walks to a room at the end of a hall. Mattie finds a sickly looking cat starving in a closet, then walks to the next room to find Josh has committed suicide by hanging himself with an ethernet cable.

Back at the university, Mattie and her friends begin to chat online and receive text messages from Josh which say "Help me." Assuming that Josh's computer is still on and there is a virus creating the messages, Mattie's friend Stone agrees to disconnect the computer at Josh's apartment. Stone finds though, that the computer is gone. Hearing noises, he enters a bedroom and finds a window that has red tape over the entire glass. The door slams shut and a female spirit steps out from the shadows. Stone hides behind a bed, thinking he is safe. But when he looks up, he sees the sickly pale face of the female spirit looking back down at him over the edge of the bed. Stone screams.

Mattie continues to receive messages from Josh and visits his apartment once more. There she learns that the building superintendent has sold Josh's computer to a young man named Dexter McCarthy. Mattie visits Dexter and blames him for the messages, but he shows her that the computer is locked in the trunk of his car. After Mattie leaves Dexter, he connects Josh's PC together. When it starts, it asks the question: "Do you want to meet a ghost?" The screen displays one web cam scene after another of strange and contorted people, many of whom are committing suicide, who seem to be staring back at Dex through the screen.

Mattie receives a package that Josh mailed two days before he died. Inside are rolls of red tape and a message that reads "It keeps them out. Don't know why. -J". Later on, Dexter finds Mattie and shows her video messages Josh was sending to Douglas Zieglar. Josh had hacked Zieglar's computer system and stolen and distributed a virus. This virus had released or unlocked a portal that connected the realm of the living, to the realm of the dead. Josh believed he had coded a counter to the virus and wanted to meet Zieglar at the library. As well Dex finds Josh's work on a memory stick taped inside the PC case with the same red tape.

Later Tim goes to Stone's apartment, only to find him being sucked into a black space in the wall. Tim tries to pull him out but Stone is absorbed into the wall and turns to ashes. Tim then runs home and tapes all his windows and door with red tape, only there isn't enough tape to cover the entire door. He then hears a noise in the hall. He pulls the red tape off of the peephole and sees a ghost. The glass in the peephole explodes, letting the ghost into the apartment.

Later that night, Mattie's roommate Izzie is down in the laundry room. She is putting some of her dirty clothes in the washing machine, and suddenly the door at the end of the room closes by itself, and the door to a dryer machine swings open. Then the wet clothes begin to "plop" on the floor, seemingly thrown out from inside. Izzie walks over to investigate, and a spirit with four arms pops out and steals her life force.

Later, Mattie returns home and looks for Izzie. She finds her in her room, covered in unsightly black bruises. They both sit down on the couch and Mattie asks "What do they want?" to which Izzie responds, "They want what they don't have anymore. They want life." Then Izzie stands up and says "It's time.....I'm sorry Mattie" before evaporating into a cloud of black ash that's blown out of the window. Mattie, frightened, runs out of her apartment and goes to meet up with Dex again.

Dex and Mattie visit Zieglar. After entering his room they find it's entirely plastered in red tape. Zieglar tells them of a project he worked on for wide-band Internet access and telecommunication purposes. Zieglar found "frequencies no one knew existed." Opening these frequencies somehow allowed the evil entities to travel to our world. Zieglar explains that after they get a hold of you, they "take away your will to live". He tells Mattie and Dex that the main server is in the basement of Computer Center.

Leaving Zieglar in his room, they go to the basement and Dex uploads Josh's "fix." It causes the system to crash and the entities vanish, but moments later the system reboots and the ghosts return. Dex and Mattie barely escape the entities that are chasing them throughout the building. Once outside, a passenger jet plane crashes into the building across the street from them. When they turn around, they see a large group of ghosts on the roof of the building. Dexter hotwires a toyota pickup and Mattie follows over to him to escape the city.

They pull over to sleep, and Mattie is awakened by a radio report from the Army announcing the location of several "safe-zones" where there is no Internet, cell phones, or television. The safe zones are made in blackout areas. The announcement says to get rid of all cell phones, PDAs and other electronic communication devices. Mattie looks up to see her cell phone on the dash. She opens it and sees she still is receiving a signal. Then she and Dex are attacked one more time by a few more restless ghosts, but start driving, and when Mattie's cell loses coverage, the entities disappear. They continue to drive towards the safe-zone. The film concludes with a voice-over from Mattie saying "We can never go back. The cities are theirs now. Instead of bringing us together, technology actually connected us to forces that we could have never imagined. The world we knew is gone, but the will to live never dies. Not for us, and Not for them." The last clips show them arriving at a large military refugee camp. Next it shows one of the abandoned cities, and a window of an apartment as Josh looks through it.

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