Pulse / Black Christmas

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Double Feature includes: "Pulse" - The year's most original horror film, "Pulse" takes fear into new territory - the very devices we trust to get us through the day. When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cell phones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction. Starring Kristen Bell ("Veronica Mars"), Christina Milian ("Love Don't Cost A Thing"), Ian Somerhalder ("Lost"), and Rick Gonzalez ("Coach Carter"), "Pulse" is loaded with terrifying thrills and gruesome special effects, and capped with an astonishing surprise ending. "Black Christmas" - Though it was only a mild success upon its release in 1974, the original "Black Christmas" (directed by Bob Clark, who would go on to direct "A Christmas Story" in 1984) has become a cult favorite among horror buffs since the dawn of the home-video era. An early example of the "body count" genre, the film also predates "When A Stranger Calls" (1979) in its use of a killer making threatening phone calls that originate within his potential victims' own house. In this remake, writer/director Glen Morgan takes the basics of Roy Moore's screenplay for the original to create an elaborate and almost comically disturbing back story for Billy, the killer who previously remained a mystery. A handful of sorority girls remain at the house after the school shuts down for Christmas break. An ominous snowstorm blows in, isolating them. At the same time, a killer - who in this version escapes from a mental institution to return to his former family home - breaks into the attic and begins making terrifying phone calls to the girls (led by Kate Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Lacey Chabert) before killing them off one by one. SCTV veteran Andrea Martin, who portrayed a victim in the original, returns as Ms. Mac, the house mother.