Viy’s horror is witch-horror ... It does, however, lend to the uncanny valley strangeness of Viy. The spells the witch casts are parlor tricks and old-school editing. For an audience today ...

When things are even just a little, tiny bit off, we notice. That’s the theory behind the “uncanny valley,” the idea that the closer humanoid robots look to real people, the more that subtle ...

There are elements of the Rachel Zegler-starring live-action remake that work. Then, there are the dwarfs. Snow White Gets ...

Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “uncanny valley” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but are a bit off bring fear and disgust to many observers. This effect ...

as she has an uncanny valley appearance that is terrifying and looks like she could come to life at any second and kill everyone in the room. Some horror movies have particularly smart and ...

I ended CES by finishing a book. It was Uncanny Valley, a memoir from New Yorker contributor Anna Wiener, which comes out on Tuesday. It’s not a polemic, and, despite the many (thinly veiled ...