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Techno-horror, the Glossary

Techno-horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that focuses on concerns with and fears of technology.^[1]

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Art horror

Art horror or arthouse horror (sometimes called elevated horror) is a sub-genre of both horror films and art-films. Techno-horror and art horror are 1960s in film, 1970s in film, 1980s in film, 1990s in film, 2010s in film and 2020s in film.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Cautionary tale

A cautionary tale or moral tale is a tale told in folklore to warn its listener of a danger.

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Cell (novel)

Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King.

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Chopping Mall

Chopping Mall is a 1986 American independent techno-horror film co-written and directed by Jim Wynorski, produced by Julie Corman, and starring Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, John Terlesky, Russell Todd, Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, and Barbara Crampton.

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Christine (King novel)

Christine is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1983.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Colossus: The Forbin Project

Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, that stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert.

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Deadly Friend

Deadly Friend is a 1986 American science fiction horror film directed by Wes Craven, and starring Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey, Richard Marcus, and Anne Ramsey.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retrospectively titled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.

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DreadOut

DreadOut is a survival horror video game from independent developer Digital Happiness for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and OS X. A port for PlayStation 4 was announced but never released.

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Dystopia

A dystopia, also called a cacotopia or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.

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Electronic voice phenomenon

Within ghost hunting and parapsychology, electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices.

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Elysium (film)

Elysium is a 2013 American dystopian science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Neill Blomkamp.

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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Namco Bandai Games.

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Ex Machina (film)

Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland in his directorial debut.

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Existenz

Existenz (stylized as eXistenZ) is a 1999 science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg.

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Fallout (video game)

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1997 role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions, set in a mid-22nd century post-apocalyptic and retro-futuristic world, decades after a nuclear war between the United States and China.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Fatal Frame

Fatal Frame, titled in Japan and Project Zero in Europe and Australia, is a Japanese survival horror video game series that was created, published and developed by Koei Tecmo (originally Tecmo).

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Five Nights at Freddy's

Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is a video game series and media franchise created by indie game developer Scott Cawthon.

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Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block.

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Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell is a Japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on the seinen manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.

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Host (film)

Host is a 2020 British independent supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage and written by Savage, Gemma Hurley, and Jed Shepherd.

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison.

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game)

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a 1995 point-and-click adventure horror game developed by Cyberdreams and The Dreamers Guild, co-designed by Harlan Ellison, published by Cyberdreams and distributed by MGM Interactive.

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I, Robot

I, Robot is a fixup collection made up of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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Isekai

Isekai is a subgenre of portal fantasy.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese horror

Japanese horror is horror fiction derived from popular culture in Japan, generally noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre differing from the traditional Western representation of horror.

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Kill Command

Kill Command (also known as Identify) is a 2016 British science fiction action horror film written and directed by Steven Gomez, and starring Thure Lindhardt and Vanessa Kirby.

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List of science fiction horror films

This is a list of science fiction horror films.

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List of techno-thriller novels

This is a list of notable techno-thriller novels, novel series, and collections of linked short stories.

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Little Nightmares II

Little Nightmares II is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.

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M3GAN

M3GAN (pronounced "Megan") is a 2022 American science fiction horror film directed by Gerard Johnstone.

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Midnight Lace

Midnight Lace is a 1960 American psychological thriller film directed by David Miller and starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, and Roddy McDowall.

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Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell.

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Observer (video game)

Observer (stylised as >observer_) is a psychological horror video game developed by Bloober Team and published by Aspyr.

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Poltergeist (1982 film)

Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, and Mark Victor from a story by Spielberg.

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Postmodern horror

Postmodern horror is a horror film related to the art and philosophy of postmodernism. Techno-horror and postmodern horror are 1960s in film, 1970s in film, 1980s in film, 1990s in film, 2010s in film and 2020s in film.

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Prometheus (2012 film)

Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction horror film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, with the screenplay co-written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof.

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Pulse (2001 film)

is a 2001 Japanese techno-horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

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Ring (film)

is a 1998 Japanese supernatural psychological horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki.

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RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.

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Scanners

Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Second Variety

"Second Variety" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Space Science Fiction magazine, in May 1953.

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Shutter (2004 film)

Shutter (Thai: ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ Chattoe: Kot Tit Winyan, "Shutter: Press to Capture Ghosts") is a 2004 Thai supernatural horror film by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom; starring Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, and Achita Sikamana.

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Soma (video game)

Soma (stylized as SOMA) is a survival horror video game developed and published by Frictional Games.

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System Shock

System Shock is a 1994 first-person action-adventure video game developed by LookingGlass Technologies and published by Origin Systems.

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Tech noir

Tech-noir (also known as cyber noir, future noir and science fiction noir) is a hybrid genre of fiction, particularly film, combining film noir and science fiction, epitomized by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) and James Cameron's The Terminator (1984). Techno-horror and Tech noir are 1980s in film, 1990s in film and 2010s in film.

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Techno-thriller

A techno-thriller or technothriller is a hybrid genre drawing from science fiction, thrillers, spy fiction, action, and war novels.

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Technology

Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.

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Technophobia

Technophobia (from Greek τέχνη technē, "art, skill, craft" and φόβος phobos, "fear"), also known as technofear, is the fear or dislike of, or discomfort with, advanced technology or complex devices, especially personal computers, smartphones, and tablet computers.

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

is a 1989 Japanese science fiction horror film directed, written, produced, and edited by Shinya Tsukamoto.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still (working titles: Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World) is a 1951 American science fiction film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Robert Wise.

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The Fly (1986 film)

The Fly is a 1986 American science fiction body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg.

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The Lawnmower Man (film)

The Lawnmower Man is a 1992 science fiction horror film directed by Brett Leonard, written by Leonard and Gimel Everett, and starring Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, an intellectually disabled gardener, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr.

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The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.

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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a 1994 novella by Roger Williams, a programmer living in New Orleans.

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The Ring (2002 film)

The Ring is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Ehren Kruger.

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The Stepford Wives (1975 film)

The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American satirical psychological thriller film directed by Bryan Forbes.

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The Terminator

The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, written by Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd and produced by Hurd.

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Tony Magistrale

Anthony Samuel Magistrale is a professor in English at the University of Vermont since 1983.

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Under the Dome (novel)

Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by American author Stephen King.

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Unfriended

Unfriended (originally titled Cybernatural) is a 2014 American screenlife supernatural horror film directed by Levan Gabriadze and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.

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Videodrome

Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry.

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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White Noise (2005 film)

White Noise is a 2005 supernatural horror film directed by Geoffrey Sax and starring Michael Keaton and Deborah Kara Unger.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-horror

Also known as Techno horror.

, Soma (video game), System Shock, Tech noir, Techno-thriller, Technology, Technophobia, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Fly (1986 film), The Lawnmower Man (film), The Matrix, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, The Ring (2002 film), The Stepford Wives (1975 film), The Terminator, Tony Magistrale, Under the Dome (novel), Unfriended, Videodrome, Western world, White Noise (2005 film).

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