MAN-MADE MONSTERS #27: Pulse (2001) & One Missed Call (2003)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 110 minutes
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There's a ghost in the machine! Stacie Ponder joins Mike as we enter the noughties to discuss two techy J-horrors that tackle the internet and mobile phones: Pulse and One Missed Call.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:03.0 | The Around the turn of the millennium, technology was changing. |
| 0:28.6 | The largely unregulated worldwide web was becoming accessible to every person in every home. |
| 0:35.6 | And as a result, human beings were becoming more connected and yet |
| 0:39.4 | also more isolated. Mobile phones also meant that anybody in the world could reach you at any time |
| 0:46.5 | from any place. These new kinds of technology resulted in a strange, queasy mix of hope and |
| 0:53.0 | excitement with dread and impending doom. |
| 1:00.5 | Around this time, a new wave of Asian horror films emerged that blended tropes of classic |
| 1:06.1 | Eastern folklore and ghost stories with the dangers and uncanny horrors of modern technology. |
| 1:13.4 | Filmmakers like Hideo Nakata, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Takashi Mikae foresaw the endless possibilities |
| 1:20.6 | and, in turn, endless horrors of modern technology. |
| 1:25.5 | Why? |
| 1:26.5 | Why? Why? |
| 1:29.3 | Why? |
| 1:30.3 | Ah! |
| 1:31.3 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of man-made monsters, and we discuss 2J horror classics, |
| 1:42.3 | Pulse and one miss cool. |
| 1:50.6 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:52.8 | My name is Mike Munzer, and as ever, I am your host. |
| 1:55.4 | In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre, |
| 1:59.6 | one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 11th season exploring the evolution of the horror genre, one subgenre at a time. |
| 2:01.2 | We are currently in the middle of our 11th season exploring the evolution of man-made monsters. |
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