Movies like Pulse 2006

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Pulse (2006)
 4.7
 31K
Pulse (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
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, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, intense, apocalyptic, cyber ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hacker, ghost, suicide, college, paranoia, internet, supernatural horror, apocalypse, danger, end of the world, college life, computers and web, afterlife, fear, survival, interracial friendship, computer, computer virus, violent content, graphic violence, zombie, supernatural, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of friend, grudge ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, contemporary
Place: ohio
Keyword: signal, bruise, poster, challenge

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Most similar movies to Pulse

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about supernatural, danger, fear, deadly, ghost, gore and supernatural horror mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Pulse: The Apparition (2012), Stay Alive (2006), Brainscan (1994), Vanishing on 7th Street (2010), Shutter (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.5
 25K
Pulse (2001)
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: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, internet, supernatural, afterlife, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 21K
The Apparition (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 83 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: scary, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, evil spirit, paranormal, disappearance, fear, experiment, haunted by the past, experiment gone awry, danger, domestic disturbance, pandora\'s box ...
Time: year 2012, year 2000, year 1973, 2010s, 70s ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 34K
Stay Alive (2006)
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, suspense, demonic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: group of friends, virtual reality, ghost, technology gone awry, supernatural, supernatural horror, characters killed one by one, murder, teenage life, survival, violence, technology ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 13K
Brainscan (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the ...
Style: scary, disturbing, twist ending, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virtual reality, murder, computer, macabre, video game, experiment gone awry, cyberpunk, mentor, transformation, technology gone awry, hypnosis, technophobia ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
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, harsh, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, vestiges of humanity, survival, darkness, supernatural, group of strangers, disappearance, natural disaster, hospital, church, danger ...
Time: year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 37K
Shutter (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Thailand
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Style: psychological, intense, road movie, creepy, scary ...
Audience: date night
Plot: ghost, spirit, rape and revenge, supernatural, photographer, revenge, police investigation, photography, photograph, car accident, obsession, wedding ...
Time: year 2008
Place: japan, tokyo, new york, asia, mount fuji ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 28K
Friend Request (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
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: mysterious, scary, slasher, cyber, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: facebook, social media, social network, suicide, witch, paranormal, college, internet, young adult, generation y, college student, witchcraft ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
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, psychological, surreal, twist ending ...
Plot: time travel, supernatural, monster, transformation, fictional reality, mentally unstable, mischievous children, evil child, world war two, creepy child, alien, aviation ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, 60s
Place: alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.0
 22K
The Signal (2007)
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: suspenseful, scary, dark comedy, psychological, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, zombie, brutality, chaos, psychopath, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, danger, survival, murder, virus, epidemic ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
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: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.5
 4K
Antisocial (2013)
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, tense, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: infection, zombie, buddies, survival, virus, plague, chaos, friendship, isolation, college, epidemic, internet ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.0
 419K
Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: 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: suspenseful, suspense, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, alien, giant monster, survival, survival horror, danger, destruction, fear, creature, chaos ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.3
 80K
Dark Skies (2013)
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, serious, psychological, creepy, twist ending ...
Plot: supernatural, alien, alien abduction, danger, extraterrestrial, ufo, bird, disorder, paranormal activity, abduction, family in danger, alien invasion ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.7
 29K
The Bay (2012)
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: disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: infection, parasite, found footage, disaster, virus, plague, disease, ecological disaster, apocalypse, infected, danger, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.1
 41K
Splinter (2008)
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, bloody, psychological, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, zombie, infection, infected, macabre, monster, virus, parasite, death, body horror, supernatural, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.0
 51K
The Grudge 2 (2006)
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, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, good versus evil, demon, serial killer, investigation, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: chicago, japan, asia, usa, pasadena california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.9
 10K
Soul Survivors (2001)
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, surprise ending, slasher, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, ghost, alternate reality, twists and turns, life & death, hallucination, multiple storylines, psychology, college, danger, college life ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 6.6
 196K
Event Horizon (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
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, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, supernatural, space station, spaceship, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, cosmic horror, hallucination, nightmare, rescue team ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1997, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Ghost in the Machine (1993)
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, futuristic, suspenseful, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, hospital, cyberpunk, virtual reality, computer, murder, androids and robots, cybersecurity, death, violence, internet, computer hacker ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: midwest, ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Lazarus Effect (2015)
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, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, experiment, death, macabre, demon, science, gory, laboratory, danger, disorder, inventions and discoveries ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Land of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
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, scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie attack, gory, virus, end of the world, violence, cannibalism, post apocalyptic, zombie outbreak ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 1995, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.4
 22K
Phantoms (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
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: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, small town, monster, military, gory, hotel, survival, extinction, creature feature, good versus evil, danger, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 4.2
 1K
Isabelle (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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, afterlife, ghost, evil spirit, parents and children, danger, nightmare, demon, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, evil force, fear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Final Destination (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
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, slasher, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, death, life & death, survival, characters killed one by one, destiny, danger, group of friends, disaster, freak accident, psychic, gory ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, year 2003, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 2.2
 744
Zombex (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 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, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: zombie, chaos, supernatural, profanity, danger, escapades, anti depressant, post traumatic stress, fear, graphic violence, undead, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.8
 45K
The Forest (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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, enigmatic, dark, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suicide, twists and turns, missing person, sisters, haunted house, hallucination, woods, mental illness, forest, storytelling ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
 77K
Quarantine (2008)
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: tense, suspenseful, scary, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virus, zombie, quarantine, found footage, infection, gory, plague, trapped, graphic violence, supernatural, rabies, pandemic ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, fear, ghost, demon, nightmare comes true, child in peril, possession, macabre, psychic ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.5
 57K
Ouija (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
Style: spooky, demonic, scary, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, ouija board, curses spells and rituals, spiritualism, haunted house, ghost child, board game, monster, brutality, medium ...
Time: year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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