Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a genre of film characterized by bizarre or shocking story lines, often shot on a low budget.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
psychotronics - adjective Of or relating to a genre of low-budget
films featuring fantastic horror or science fiction themes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Einhorn testified that shortly before Holly Maddux's disappearance, he was investigating Leon, called "psychotronic" weaponry.
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The newspaper reports, "there is strong evidence that some kind of psychotronic warfare program did exist in the Soviet period, and that the technology may be falling into the wrong hands" (From Moscow Times, 7-11-95).
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010
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"psychotronic" brainwashing techniques developed by the KGB and the Ministry for three years.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010
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Between 1969 and 1971, US intelligence sources concluded that the Soviet Union was engaged in “psychotronic” research.
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Judging from the trailer above and a "review" in VICE, it's destined to be a psychotronic classic.
Boing Boing 2009
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(II) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations;
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There are so many DVDs devoted to “psychotronic” films now, lots of books.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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Against the Reich, for the indie game octaNe - the “psychotronic game of post-apocalyptic trash-culture America”
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List of psychotronic videos available at Internet Archive
Boing Boing 2008
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"My major influences at the moment are Ethiopian icon drawings, Vincent Price, the films of Dario Argento and the horror, psychotronic, and B-movies of the '60s and' 70s, and photographs from the '60s and' 70s from my grandmother's house in the Woodridge neighborhood in Northeast Washington."
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