technohorror
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
technohorror (uncountable)
- A horror genre dealing with the harmful effects of technology.
- 2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II:
- Springing from these roots, the Alien franchise was to become a vehicle for the permanent entrenchment of 1950s-style technohorror in American popular culture.
- The fear or loathing of modern technology.
- Hyponym: technoparanoia