Pulse (2010)

Pulse was a TV pilot shown on BBC3 a little while ago. I didn't bother with any of the other pilots but I was drawn to this one by the promise that it might be a bit like Being Human (in fact the only cast member I recognised was Annie's ex from the first series of that show), and it was written by Paul Cornell, who has written for Doctor Who. If it does get a full series, and I'd watch if it does, they should rename it 'Blood', because there was a hell of a lot of it in this 50 minutes of TV. 

The premise of Pulse is that there is a dubious experiment going on in a hospital where cancer patients have things moving inside them, and then become walking dead. Claire Foy plays Hannah, a trainee doctor who has a bit of a reputation for being eccentric, and it is she who stumbles upon the bizarre occurrences that lead her to suspect something odd is going on. She's gets splattered with blood on two occasions, once during a botched operation, and again when she attacks a 'zombie' with a saw, sending blood spurting from the back of its neck. Pleasant. 

Gore aside, this was a promising pilot, with bits of unexplained goings on and intrigue that I'm sure could sustain a series. Hannah sees her dead mother in strange places, there appears to be a conspiracy to cover up the medical experiments, and Hannah's counsellor is a bit creepy too... Promising then, though a bit dark, it could maybe do with some of Being Human's humour quotient to counter the medical gore.