Noreen DeWulf

(In French, On Cable TV, April 2020) As one could guess from a barely-known third-in-a-series horror film, there really isn’t much to say about Pulse 3. The ghosts-invasion-through-the-Internet apocalypse of the first film happened years ago, and now the human survivors are in rural camps while cities are off-limits. Then, proving that even idiots have survived the apocalypse, a young girl strikes a videoconference romance via an illicit laptop and decides to go see him… in the city. That is about the last coherent thing that happens, although I suppose that it could have been worse. But what remains is still not that good: half the movie looks as if it was shot against greenscreen for even the most ordinary shot, and at the script level the attempts to earn sympathy for the ghost antagonists simply don’t work. Pulse 3 never quite knows what to do with itself, but those problems grow even worse in the third act. Adding insult to injury, my only reason to see the film, Noreen DeWulf, is only there for a few minutes in low-resolution screen and gets an unfortunate send-off. I’d recommend avoiding Pulse 3, but really the joke is on me because I’m the only one dumb enough to even watch it.