KRISTEN BELL: BEWARE OF YOUR COMPUTER

Horror writer Wes Craven rewrote the Japanese film Pulse for American audiences and the results of a wireless computer channeling a terrifying evil are pretty scary according to the film’s star Kristen Bell who wonders what would happen if technology took over.

Pulse relies on special effects to create the jump out of your seat moments. Kristen says acting opposite something that’s not really there is always a challenge.

“It really deals with what’s in our face right now, so much technology. It really scares you because it’s infiltrating something that is so comfortable to us which is your computer. Why should you be scared of your computer? It has sort of done for the computer what first scary movies did for the closet or something like that. It now forces you to reexamine, is this really a comfortable situation? Am I really by myself? And you ask yourself these questions and you get more freaked out.”

Next time you log on beware of your computer. Pulse opens Friday in theaters nationwide.rn

“It’s the power of imagination and you have to put yourself back when you were five and you were able to create an entire room or an entire candy store in your bedroom, whatever it was. It’s a different kind of work for an actor because you’re not able to lose yourself as much because you have to keep imagining where you are.”