Ghouls and boo's are in the air and it's time to share some film's to watch for the season. In this article I'm going to focus on the underrated sub genre of horror, the techno-horror genre. Technology is embedded in our lives at this point, and it's always a little scary when a film focuses on technology going wrong in our lives. So here's 5 techno-horror films you may want to check out.
5. Ghost In The Machine
This 1993 film is a blend of sci-fi and horror and deserves a lot more love than it get's. It didn't make a dent in theaters when it was released that year and found some success on cable TV but still not enough that it has become lost to time. The film follows a serial killer in a town called the "address book killer", who through some wild circumstances conscious is transferred into the electrical grid when he dies. He goes on a rampage continuing his killing via electronics, on the way to his primary victim Terry (Karen Allen) and her son Josh (Wil Horneff, better known as the leader of the opposing baseball team in The Sandlot).
It has some interesting deaths in the film and should have a more popular cult status 30 plus years later. It is available on Youtube if you look hard enough. If you are able to find it and give it a shot, you won't be disappointed.
4. Brainscan
This 1994 film starring Edward Furlong, still pretty popular from his role as John Connor in Terminator 2. As an isolated socially akward teenager who plays a video game, that turns his life upside down. The video game becomes reality and reality becomes video games. As actions in the game suddenly occur in real life.
Soon Furlong's character Michael is greeted by a character in the game The Trickster. Playing mind games, he encourages Michael to harm those around him. Sending him into a deep spiral as he tries to loosen the grip the game has on him.
BrainScan is available on Tubi.
3. Pulse
This 2006 film starring Kristen Bell and is an adaptation of a Japanese film released in 2001. It follow's Bell as a young college student who is investigating the suicide of her boyfriend. What soon follows is a strange web of the internet no one could foresee. A computer virus that connects the living world to a realm of the undead. And they are coming for the living through the internet.
Pulse is currently available on tubi and plutotv.
2. Feardotcom

Another new millennium film highlighting the danger's of the world wide web. 2002's Feardotcom follows a New York City detective investigating a string of gruesome murders, which all appear to NOT involve foul play. Through some detective work, the culprit turns out to be a website featuring torture murders. When visitors to the site see the content, it actually drives them insane. The detectives have to race to find out who is behind this website.
This cult classic is available on tubi and Pluto.
1. Lawnmower Man
This 1992 film based on a Stephan King short story, follows a mentally disabled man who becomes the test subject for a new product through the use of virtual reality and medication. The product grants him enhanced intellect and eventually newfound powers including telepathy and telekinesis. Soon the subject begins to use his newfound powers to enact revenge on those that have wronged him. And drunk with power plans to merge with a mainframe system and "infect" systems around the world.
The film spawned a sequel which went deeper in the virtual reality aspect, and is considered a cult classic. It's also available on Tubi.