Kristen Bell Talks Pulse Remake

Kristen Bell Talks Pulse Remake

Now Playing Magazine scored an interview with Kristen Bell, the VERONICA MARS star who￿s also toplining Dimension￿s remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa￿s PULSE. To be directed by Jim Sonzero and released through the Weinstein brothers￿ new company March 3, 2006, the film features Bell as one of several characters plagued by a supernatural malignance that enters our world through an Internet website. ￿It￿s a very difficult project to describe,￿ Bell, seen here in David Mamet￿s SPARTAN, tells the mag. ￿It￿s based a lot on loneliness. I was really taken by it when I had lunch with [Sonzero] and he explained to me the loneliness of this character. She￿s just very stoic and frightened at the same time. I loved the idea. I never really played a punky person before; Veronica isn￿t really punk, she￿s just more￿she has her own thing going on. I liked the way he spoke about it and the ideas he had. That￿s why I joined up.￿

Bell goes on to say that she has seen Kurosawa￿s original, and found it ￿very, very scary. I tend to like horror movies that have much more of an unknown feeling, because I think that￿s the scariest thing possible. [It￿s] the old thing Alfred Hitchcock used to say, ￿Show them less, and they￿ll be more frightened.￿ What you don￿t show is the scariest thing and I think that goes for ideas as well. THE BIRDS￿no one knew why the birds were coming, no one knows why they were trying to kill everyone, and at the end, you don￿t know whether it￿s infected the whole world, or just that city. And I think that￿s the most frightening part [of that film], and that￿s what I liked about PULSE. The evil in PULSE is an unknown.￿

Courtesy of Fangoria

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