TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

If one masterpiece were to emerge from the recent glut of generally good quality Japanese horror movie, this chilling apocalyptic ghost story from Kyroshi Kurosawa is it.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

Kurosawa leaves much of the explanation enigmatic but he fills the film with an eerie emptiness, where suicides erupt out of nowhere and mankind dissolves in an oily smudge of hopelessness, adrift between life and death.

The New York Times by Anita Gates

The most horrifying thing in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's fiercely original, thrillingly creepy Pulse (released as "Kairo," or "Circuit," in Japan) is the way the ghosts move.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

It's a horror movie for aficionados. But it's also for people who don't usually like horror movies at all, who regard them as cheap, crude and over-obvious.There's nothing cheap or crude in Pulse," a fine, shivery movie about the terror of solitude and emptiness.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Storytelling clarity has never been a Kurosawa strong suit, yet Pulse baffles even under those standards, so it's best to just get on his abstract wavelength and ride the thing out.

Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

Like the best horror movies, it doesn't beat you over the head, splatter you, or fold, spindle and mutilate you. Rather, slowly and subtly, it creeps you out. You may go home and throw out your computer and lock the doors.

L.A. Weekly

Whether you take it as horror show or social commentary (or both), this is sublimely terrifying stuff.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

Just know that Pulse possesses the dark art to make your pulse pound and your hair stand on end -- with no cheating.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Pleasantly free of blood and guts, with Kurosawa using instead the mighty power of suggestion to give Pulse an invigorating aura of menace.

Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

Where the average Japanese horror flick is petulant and nasty, Pulse is dolorous, shivery, and surreal.

Variety by Derek Elley

Result is always watchable, occasionally creepy and teasingly pitched halfway between a genre riff and a genuine scarefest.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

With very few strong characters and a great many middle shots, Pulse sometimes plods--it's the price of Kurosawa's restraint and his indifference to structure.

Film Threat by Stina Chyn

A horror film that scares you to insomnia is good in the sense that it succeeds in what it sets out to do.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Nothing in the two snail-paced hours of Pulse makes close to a shred of sense?

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Pulse works as a hypnotic meditation on contemporary alienation. Traditional horror fans, however, will search in vain for signs of life.