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The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Episode 176: Pulse (2001) vs. Pulse (2006)

The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Sidney

Tv & Film

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sidney breaks down the original Japanese version of Pulse (2001) and compares it to its not so great American remake, Pulse (2006).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello? Hello, Sydney. What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back with another episode of the Hello Sydney podcast. You're a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror. it's me your girl sydney happy wednesday

0:22.2

happy end of march it happened so fast suddenly i blinked and it's pretty much over happy end of

0:29.5

two thousand's month which i have had an absolute blast i hope you guys have been having as much

0:33.8

fun as i have i love this shit i feel like i haven't recorded an episode in so long because I haven't, because I like filmed so many in advance before I went to South by. So this is my first episode that I'm actually filming in like two weeks, which is crazy. I feel like I feel like I'm out of practice, guys. I don't know how to fucking act right now. But speaking of Southby, let me tell you all about it. Guys, let me tell you about some movies that I think you absolutely need to have on your radar. I watch 20 movies total. Okay. I actually, I'm filming this on Monday. I am today going to be posting a ranking of all 20 of them. So by the time you guys are hearing this episode, that will be

1:11.0

posted if you want to hear about all of them. But I'm going to tell you about my top movies.

1:14.6

One, Leviticus. Leviticus is one of the best horror movies I have seen in a decade.

1:21.7

Like I have not felt that way watching a movie in a very long time, possibly ever. This is the one that I had said

1:29.5

was being marketed as like the heated rivalry versus it follows. It's so much more than that.

1:34.3

It's so much deeper than that. And literally, no pun intended, it follows walked so this movie

1:40.5

could run. And I'm nervous that when people see this movie, you're going to hear like, oh, it's just a rip off of it follows. It's a rip off, blah, blah, blah. That's basically the same thing as the people who said that Sinners was a rip off of from dusk till dawn. It's just not fucking accurate. Like just because they share a similar element does not mean that it's a rip off. And this movie is what it follows wanted to be, honestly. And again, that's coming from somebody

2:03.9

who, like, what it follows wanted to be,

2:02.3

honestly. And again, that's coming from somebody who, like, thinks it follows is a fine movie. It's

2:06.5

okay. I don't love it as much as other people do. But in my head, this is what it follows,

2:10.6

wanted to be. This is the sense of dread and just utter fucking anxiety and just, like,

2:16.7

the hopelessness that it follows wanted to create that it

2:20.2

didn't do for me but leviticus did it for me oh my god literally like for half of this movie the

2:25.9

second half of this movie i was like i'm surprised i ain't pop a fucking blood vessel or something

2:30.6

i was so tensed up watching this movie because you don't know like what's real,

2:36.0

what's not. It's, it's so fucking good. It has the best jump scare I have seen in anything since the car

2:42.0

jump scare in the haunting of Hillhouse. I must have jumped 10 feet in the fucking air. Everybody

2:47.8

did. That jump scare, there's not one person in that theater that was not got

2:52.5

by this fucking jump scare. And then in addition to that, like the just pure dread and terror of it,

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