There is a sense of dread and inevitability from the first frame of The Collingswood Story. This little-known Screenlife thriller from 2002 is perhaps the first of the sub-genre. Primarily taking place on a pre-Skype video chat platform based on a landline, the instability and unreliability of the platform perfectly …

Off and on, popular horror media has been preoccupied with various tech booms. Techno-horror has been the subject of some of horror’s most popular works. The Ring and Sinister in particular have captured popular imagination for their intersection of recording mediums and the supernatural.Before them, however, in the UK, there …