10 Movies That Perfectly Blend Horror & Sci-Fi

One of the definitive techno horrors of the past half century, David Cronenberg's Videodrome managed to pre-empt and predict society's increasing infatuation with video technology from back in the early 1980s - the very beginning of this now all-encompassing era.

Cronenberg looks at our obsession for violent and extreme content through the lens of Max Renn (James Woods), a smut TV station president who accidentally pirates Videodrome, a plotless show featuring the torture, humiliation and death of its participants. Assuming this to be the next wave of television sensationalism, Max tracks down the show's creator, but in doing so loses himself in a world where the separation of fiction and truth, television and reality, are not so clear as he once thought.

Videodrome foregrounds our fear of digital manipulation as Max's mind and body becomes evermore subsumed by technology, hallucinating his way into the service of nefarious actors and becoming part machine in the process. It is the horrors of reality television, social media, AI and modern technology writ large. And yet Cronenberg could have had no idea just how prescient his vision would be, when a mere thirty years on everyone from school age onwards would carry a personal video device that would provide instant, unfettered access into the darkest reaches of human misery and suffering - all in the name of profit and entertainment.

Long live the new flesh!