The Lawrence brothers have grown up on screen with Joey leading the charge, most notably on TV. In 1988 he stepped onto the big screen for the horror film Pulse co-starring Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, and Matthew Lawrence from Beat Street writer Paul Golding directing and writing. Now the film is finally making its way onto Blu-ray from Alliance Entertainment, but does it offer up something worth revisiting or will it just not have enough power to entertain?

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Pulse follows Bill who welcomes his beloved son David with his new wife Ellen to spend a few days with him. David lives with his mother in Colorado and befriends his neighbor Stevie. When Bill and Ellen must go to a party, David stays home alone where weird things start to happen with the TV and other electric appliances. After the neighbor’s house is destroyed David snoops around meeting an old man, who tells him that there is a deadly and intelligent pulse of electricity running through the electrical grid.

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As someone who grew up with Joey Lawrence on TV, I was always glad to see him on the big screen as well. I remember seeing this film when it came out and not being a big fan but was looking forward to revisiting it with more mature eyes. I can say that while it was a fine movie with an intriguing idea it still doesn’t work for me, but that isn’t to say that both Lawrence brothers still don’t bring their A game to the roles.

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There is something there in the story that could be compelling and terrifying film, but they spend so much time trying to build something that it fails on much execution. Initially it seems to be really setting the tone to everything before it falls into the generic tropes of the genre complete with the crazy old