We have previously written a few blog posts about KBZ Film which is a site that lists over 28,000 films within 209 film subgenres and microgenres. Some of our posts have been about KBZ’s subgenres including Techno Thrillers, Films About AI, Films About Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality and Cyberpunk Films. We thought it would be a good time to go back to KBZ for the tech horror of AR & VR in film.

We’re admittedly a little late getting to this. but late last year, KBZ also released a list of Techno-Horror films. This list caught our eye for a few reasons. While most of the films are related to the horrors of artificial intelligence (that’s seems to be the most popular technology subject for horror), their blog post also has an extensive list of AR & VR Horror films. Some of these films include classic VR horror like Videodrome (1983), The Lawnmower Man (1992) and The Cell (2000) and there were also more recent films that explore the horrors of AR in H0us3 (2019), The Bridge Curse: Ritual (2023) and Latency (2024). Those are some of the better films exploring the tech horror of AR & VR in film and we would also suggest a few other horror films including Blind Date (1984), St. John’s Wort (2001), You Die (2018) & V/H/S/85 (2023).

Though it’s not a horror film, we still feel Anon (2018) is the best film about the dangers of widespread AR and we highly recommend watching it if you haven’t seen the film yet. Otherwise, if horror is more your thing and you want to see the dangers of any new technology from AI & AR to VR & XR, we suggest you read KBZ’s blog post of Techno-Horror films or watch their video below.