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Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan

Shigeru Mizuki and Zack Davidson

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Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan concludes Shigeru Mizuki's dazzling autobiographical and...

Dark Water

Koji Suzuki

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A selection of deliciously spooky short stories from the Japanese master of suspense, the acclaimed...

Golden Parasol: A Daughter's Memoir of Burma

Wendy Law-Yone

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At the time of Burma's military coup in 1962, Wendy Law-Yone was fifteen. A year later, her father...

The Complete Guide to Sushi and Sashimi: Includes 500 Photographs

Jeffrey Elliot and Robby Cook

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Making sushi at home is surprisingly simple and easy! These easy-to-follow recipes come from two of...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Pulse (2006) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

Pulse (2006)

2006 | Horror, Mystery

6.0

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Offensively awful, legitimately reprehensible filmmaking. I challenge anyone to find a worse American remake of Japanese horror than this. Not at all shocking how mercilessly they unceremoniously gutted the original of any sense of breadth, nuance, emotion, horror, intelligence, memorability, you know - all of that stuff that actually makes a half-decent horror film because apparently us dumb Yanks just couldn't handle any ounce of it... but by God did it have to look like moldy garbage too? This may be the worst looking film I've ever seen, whoever color-coded this to look like a chemical reaction between bleach and rotting flesh better have been blacklisted from working in the film industry since. I had to stop somewhere around the halfway point (which still felt like a goddamn century even though this barely touches 90 minutes with credits) because I felt physically ill from stomaching these shit visuals for that long. Of course it's ineptly acted, too. Is this what they thought the original meant? Some doltish technophobic lecture about how cell phones are as evil as murderous demons which also doesn't have a single milliliter of character to its name? The kind of stuff that could feasibly be used in torture chambers to get information out of people. So ironic that it kept the name, because it honestly doesn't have any pulse to speak of. Needed a trigger warning for pure stupidity.