LibGuides: History of Horror: Mad Scientists & Technophobia

Science Gone Wrong

Frankenstein
Swank streaming 1931
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A scientist assembles corpses to create a monster, who incurs the wrath of the local villagers when he impulsively kills a little girl. Subsequently seeking out his creator, the creature flees with him to a nearby windmill.
Young Frankenstein
DVD 1974
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A brain surgeon who inherits a family castle in Transylvania soon becomes obsessed with making his own monster after learning the family secrets.
Jurassic Park
Swank streaming 1993
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Genetically engineered dinos run amok on a remote island. Based on Michael Crichton's best seller.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
DVD 2011
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During experiments to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a genetically-enhanced chimpanzee uses its greater intelligence to lead other apes to freedom.
Ex Machina
DVD 2014
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Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world₂s largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company₂s reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world₂s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies.

Get Out by Jordan Peele; Tananarive Due (Text by)
Call Number: PN 1997.2 .P4295 G48 2019
ISBN: 9781941753286
Publication Date: 2019-11-26

Circa 700 BCE. Prometheus in Hesiod's Theogony.
1818. Novel: Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.
1844. Story: "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
1886. Novella: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
1896. Novel: The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells.
1920. Novel: Les Mains d'Orlac (English: The Hands of Orlac) by Maurice Renard.
1931. Story: "The Man Who Evolved" by Edmond Hamilton.
1935. Film: The Bride of Frankenstein.
1941. Film: The Monster and the Girl.
1963. Film: The Man With X-ray Eyes.
1964. Film: Doctor Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love the Bomb.
1976. Novel: The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin.
1977. Film: Demon Seed.
1977. Story: "The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree.
1978. Novel: The Stand by Stephen King.
1980. Film: Altered States.
1982. Film: Wes Craven's Swamp Thing.
1990: Novel: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
2011. Stage play: Danny Boyle"s Frankenstein (for the UK's National Theater).
2011. Film: Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
2017. Film: Get Out.

The Leader of the Luddites, 1812. Hand-coloured etching.
Used under Creative Commons public domain CC0 image.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Science Fiction DVD 1968
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Mankind finds a mysterious artifact buried on the moon and with the intelligent computer HAL 9000, sets off on a quest to Jupiter.
Westworld
DVD (Movie) 1973
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This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies--until something goes wrong with their circuitry.
Videodrome
DVD 1983
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A cable TV executive discovers an underground TV show called Videodrome, a hyperviolent torture show. His quest to find the origin of the show may result in the loss of his sanity.
The Terminator
DVD 1984
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In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind’s only hope.

1811. The Luddite movement in England is born.
1921. Novel: R.U.R. by Karel Capek.
1931. Novel: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
1942. Isaac Asimov introduces his 3 Laws of Robotics in the story, "Runaround".
1956. The International Flat Earth Research Society created.
1957. The Russians launch the Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite.
1966. Story: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick.
1971. Film: George Lucas' THX 1138.
1975. Film: The Stepford Wives.
1978. Film: Capricorn One (about a fake Mars landing).
1982. Film: Blade Runner.
1983. Novel: Christine by Stephen King.
1987. Film: Robocop.
1990. Film: Total Recall.
1996. Film: Multiplicity.
1998. Film: Dark City.
2002. Film: Minority Report.
2007. Film: Transformers.