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Pre-Internet age that would be a ground for some horror movies and creepypastas. Now we are talking about hackers and stuff.

P.S. Will we have horror movies based on Internet and IoTs, that would be very exciting.



> Will we have horror movies based on Internet and IoTs, that would be very exciting.

There’s Demon Seed from 1977, an actual horror movie about too-smart devices.

The concept was then revisited in 1984 as a romantic comedy, “Electric Dreams”.


There was also a made-for-Disney-TV movie in 1999 called Smart House that kind of approaches horror.

And home automation features briefly in Back to the Future II and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.




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