Movies like Pulse 2006
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Pulse (2006)
32K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Style:
scary, suspense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, intense, teen horror, apocalyptic, horrifying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hacker, ghost, college, paranoia, supernatural horror, suicide, internet, apocalypse, afterlife, danger, college life, computers and web, zombie, fear, survival, computer, graphic violence, violent content, computer virus, dark place, supernatural, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of friend, grudge, virus ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, contemporary
Place:
ohio
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Most similar movies to Pulse
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and serious films with plots about supernatural, danger, death, survival, catastrophe, ghost and fear mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Pulse: Stay Alive (2006), The Apparition (2012), Event Horizon (1997), Flight 7500 (2014), Vanishing on 7th Street (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, scary, dark, creepy ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
internet, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as ...
Style:
scary, slasher, demonic, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
group of friends, virtual reality, technology gone awry, supernatural horror, ghost, teenage life, husband murders wife, supernatural, cursed object, characters killed one by one, murder, survival ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Plagued by frightening occurrences in their home, Kelly and Ben learn that a university's parapsychology experiment produced an entity that is now haunting them. The malevolent spirit feeds on fear and torments the couple no matter where they ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious, mysterious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disappearance, ghost, fear, supernatural horror, paranormal, evil spirit, paranormal phenomena, experiment, haunted by the past, experiment gone awry, danger, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2000, year 1973, 2010s, 70s ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
213K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, scary, lovecraft, spooky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, outer space, spaceship, cosmic horror, space station, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, violence, supernatural, hallucination, nightmare ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 90s, year 1997, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, airplane, wedding, air disaster, supernatural power, trapped, medical, disaster, flying, aviation, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, disappearance, vestiges of humanity, group of strangers, supernatural, darkness, survival, hospital, danger, chaos, death ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the ...
Style:
anthology, suspenseful, twist ending, cult classic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, supernatural, transformation, fictional reality, mentally unstable, mischievous children, evil child, world war two, aviation, creepy child, supernatural horror, television ...
Time:
1940s, 80s, 60s
Place:
alabama
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...
Style:
cyber, slasher, demonic, psychotronic, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
facebook, suicide, witch, social network, witchcraft, funeral, police investigation, college, social media, young adult, internet, spirit ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Style:
sexy, cult classic, suspenseful, scary, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brutality, zombie, violent, chaos, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, survival, danger, murder, virus, epidemic, violence spree ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted outside, causing outbreaks around the world. With nowhere else to turn, they barricade themselves indoors with only their phones, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
infection, zombie, buddies, new year, survival, virus, isolation, chaos, plague, friendship, epidemic, internet ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing ...
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, twist ending, spooky ...
Plot:
supernatural, alien abduction, alien, danger, disorder, extraterrestrial, bird, ufo, abduction, family in danger, paranormal activity, evil alien ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, medical horror ...
Plot:
afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, medical student, medical school, memory, suicide, paranoia, childhood memory, childhood trauma ...
Time:
80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
50%
157K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, murder, gory, curse, imaginary, macabre, scared, vengeance, death, medical ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
Similarity:
30%
44K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. ...
Style:
scary, psychological, bloody, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
creature, infected, zombie, monster, infection, macabre, survival, parasite, death, virus, body horror, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A female collage co-ed freshman who was involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived the tragedy after all when she becomes caught between the world of the living and the dead A sort of limbo state of being between both the real ...
Style:
psychological, scary, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, twists and turns, ghost, alternate reality, life & death, hallucination, multiple storylines, psychology, college, danger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Karl, a technician in a computer shop, is also the "Address Book Killer," who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address books. Terry and her son Josh come into the store to price software, and a salesman uses Terry's ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, futuristic, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, hospital, technology, cyberpunk, virtual reality, computer, murder, androids and robots, cybersecurity, death, violence, internet ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
ohio, midwest, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
30%
442K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style:
spooky, mysterious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, disaster, found footage, giant monster, alien, survival, fear, survival horror, danger, creature, kaiju, deadly creature ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
death, supernatural, life & death, survival, supernatural horror, characters killed one by one, danger, disaster, destiny, group of friends, psychic power, near death experience ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, year 2003, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Style:
intense, creepy, atmospheric, tense, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, quarantine, virus, infection, found footage, graphic violence, plague, haunted house, trapped, gory, rabies, cannibalism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
24K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense, lovecraft ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, small town, military, hotel, gory, monster, good versus evil, creature feature, danger, eaten alive, disaster, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco, california
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, death, laboratory, macabre, catholic, experiment, demon, gory, science, danger, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, curse, good versus evil, supernatural horror, demon, investigation, serial killer, danger, twists and turns, scared, hospital ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, japan, usa, asia, illinois ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style:
suspense, cult classic, scary, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, violence, zombie attack, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, gory, virus, zombie outbreak, survival horror, cannibalism, infected ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 90s, year 1995, 2000s
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
29%
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33K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ...
Style:
surreal, suspense, ambiguous ending, scary, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virus, zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, stephen king, life & death, post apocalypse, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, survival, paranoia, on the road ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
boston, new england, maine
Similarity:
29%
776
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
chaos, supernatural, profanity, escapades, danger, zombie, anti depressant, post traumatic stress, fear, graphic violence, epidemic, undead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
29%
32K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style:
mockumentary, frightening, suspenseful, horrifying, medical horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parasite, infection, found footage, disaster, water, virus, ecological disaster, disease, plague, infected, epidemic, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maryland, california
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suicide, sisters, missing person, twists and turns, destiny, hallucination, forest, mental illness, haunted house, storytelling ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, androids and robots, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
supernatural, evil spirit, ghost, parents and children, danger, demon, family in danger, nightmare, evil force, curses spells and rituals, fear, paranormal activity ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, death, deathtrap, curses spells and rituals, buddies, supernatural, afterlife, survival, danger, violence, college, dreaming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
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