A selection of horror stories that features modern technologies, appliances and machines that are cursed, haunted or AI gone rogue. All ages welcome as long as these titles support the theme. Examples include:

Vehicles - cars, trucks, buses
Machines
Computers
Videos
Cameras
Phones
Apps
Arcades/Video Games


For this list, we are not including tech horror stories with human villains, only tech horror stories with supernatural causes. Evil machines and appliances only. AI powered appliances can be included here, no robots or androids though. We already have lists for those types.
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message 1: by Georgina (last edited Dec 05, 2025 07:26AM) (new)

Georgina Warren I will also share a list of cursed/haunted tech movies to support the theme:

Ghost in the Machine (1993) - All appliances
The Ring (2002) - Video cassette
Fear Dot Com (2002) - Website
Stay Alive (2006) - Video game
Sinister 1 and 2 (2012, 2015) - Super 8 film reels
Unfriended (2014) - Skype chat
Polaroid (2019) - Polaroid camera
Countdown (2019) - Phone app
A.M.I. (2019) - AI assistant
The Black Phone 1 and 2 (2021, 2025) - Rotary dial phone
Afraid (2024) - AI assistant


If the appliance runs on paranormal energy and contains ghosts or demons than it counts.


message 2: by Georgina (last edited Dec 02, 2025 08:57AM) (new)

Georgina Warren I was undecided about including A.M.I. since this film centers around an evil AI virtual assistant like Alexa or Siri. But there are several ways to interpret the villain of this film:

A demon
An AI gone rogue
The ghost of the protagonist's mother
The protagonist descending into madness


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