Thursday Movie Picks: Halloween Edition: Technology

Technology isn't that scary or threatening in real life unless you are a Neanderthal or someone who wasted years studying something *coughs*accounting*coughs* any idiot with a computer can do nowadays. In movies, it's a whole different story as technology often takes over humans. That's exactly this week's theme for Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks.

Christine (1983)

Based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, it follows Arnie (Keith Gordon), a typical high school geek whose life is completely turned around when he meets Christine, a bright red 1958 Plymouth Fury. I didn't find it that scary nor suspenseful, but a car like Christine is pretty damn scary. 

The Ring (2002)

A journalist (Naomi Watts) investigates a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it. Courtesy of IMDb because I haven't seen this film yet. But I will, sooner or later, as I've heard many good things about it.

Upgrade (2018)

It follows a guy named Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) who, after losing his wife (Melanie Vallejo) and his limbs, agrees to have a neck implant called STEM to walk again. Grey soon learns that STEM can talk to him and that it's pretty smart, and uses it to find the men who killed his wife. It's not the best film of the year, but it's freaking scary what technology can do.