Pulse 2: Afterlife (V) Poster, Trailer and Jamie Bamber The Actor

SYNOPSIS

The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them.

Jamie Bamber

I didn’t see the American remake of the Japanese horror film “Pulse” (aka “Kairo”), for no other reason except I had already seen the original years earlier, and didn’t want to risk diluting it’s brilliance with a watered down American remake. But who cares why I watch a given movie or not, because the producers behind the “Pulse” remake has already scheduled parts 2 and 3 (both to go directly to DVD), to be called “Pulse: Afterlife” and “Pulse: Invasion”, respectively, and they’ve signed up “Battlestar Galactica” star Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama, aka Apollo) to play the lead in both films. If the “Pulse” sequels follow the pattern of recent years when it comes to DTDVD sequels, both movies will be made back-to-back and released a year apart.

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In the films, Bamber plays Stephen, a recently divorced account exec for a large sales firm. He busted up his own marriage because he slept with someone else. He is the man that “let it all get away.” In the post phantom world, he hides out up in his mountain lodge, behind an armored wall of sentries. He finds his child, thankfully still alive, and must protect her from the phantom of ex-wife Michelle (as well as from the jealous and possessive fling subject, Marta).

Wow, that’s pretty interesting. I didn’t know the American remake had gone apocalyptic with its ending as the original Japanese version had. I thought they would do something lame like have the kids save the world or something, but I guess not!

Of course this means I will have to go see the original remake, because I plan on seeing the sequels…

Trailer

Release Date: September 30, 2008
Director: Joel Soisson
Writer: Joel Soisson
Starring: Jamie Bamber Noureen DeWulf Jamie Bamber Laura Cayouette Karley Scott Collins Georgina Rylance Kent Jude Bernard Robin McGee
Studio: Dimension Extreme