What (who) is crawling horror - definition
Plastoon; Plastoon crawling; Plastun crawling; Plastoons; Plastuns
crawling horror
<jargon> Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept
obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers
at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes
that the thing described is not just an irritation but an
active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff
in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II
application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling
horror."
Compare WOMBAT.
[Jargon File ]
(1994-12-01)
Art horror
FILM GENRE
Elevated horror; Arthouse horror; Arthouse horror film; Art horror film
Art horror or arthouse horror (sometimes called elevated horror) is a sub-genre of both horror films and art-films. It explores and experiments with the artistic uses of horror.
Body horror
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SUBGENRE OF HORROR THAT SHOWCASES GRAPHIC OR PSYCHOLOGICALLY DISTURBING VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY
User:Itherina/BodyHorror; Body Horror
Body horror or biological horror is a subgenre of horror that intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body. These violations may manifest through aberrant sex, mutations, mutilation, zombification, gratuitous violence, disease, or unnatural movements of the body.
Wikipedia
Plastun
A plastun or plastoon (Ukrainian, Russian: пластун) was a Cossack foot scouting and sentry military unit. Originally, they were part of the Black Sea Cossack Host and then later in the 19th and 20th centuries Kuban Cossack Host.
