10 Great Horror Movies Where The World Literally Ends
7. Pulse
2001's J-horror classic Pulse takes a most ridiculous of concepts - ghosts invading our world through the Internet - and makes it utterly transfixing to behold, largely thanks to fine atmospheric world-building from legendary filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure).
The eerie happenings eventually ramp up to the point where people begin disappearing in vast numbers as ghosts invade Tokyo, ultimately leaving it a desolate shell of its former self.
Though protagonists Michi (Kumiko Asō) and Ryosuke (Haruhiko Kato) make it to the apparent safety of a boat at the end, they're informed that the same supernatural phenomena are also taking place all over the world, while the ending leaves their fates eerily ambiguous. But it doesn't take much reading between the lines to appreciate that the plague, or whatever the hell it is, is going to win, having spread worldwide while humanity has no clue whatsoever of how to keep it at bay.