Videodrome
by David Cronenberg
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Actor: Deborah Harry, James Woods, Leslie Carlson, Peter Dvorsky, Sonja SmitsDirector: David Cronenberg
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Mark Irwin
Writer: David Cronenberg
Editor: Ronald Sanders
Producer: Claude H?roux
Producer: Lawrence Nesis
Producer: Pierre David
Producer: Victor Solnicki
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-09-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Videodrome
Movie Review: Guaranteed to bring up your tv dinner!
Summary: 1 Stars
In the event of an emergency when watching this film, your empty popcorn bucket makes a useful vomitory aid. Your couch cushion can be used as a floatation device, when the bucket overflows, to drift yourself out of the living room and as far away from the tele as you can possibly get. You'll be sick to your stomach for sure knowing you've wasted good money on bile such as this!
Summary of Videodrome
The manager of a toronto cable-tv station tracks an unlisted torture/death show. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/12/2005 Starring: James Woods Jack Creley Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R Director: David CronenbergLove it or loathe it, David Cronenberg's 1983 horror film Videodrome is a movie to be reckoned with. Inviting extremes of response from disdain (critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the least entertaining films ever made") to academic euphoria, it's the kind of film that is simultaneously sickening and seemingly devoid of humanity, but also blessed with provocative ideas and a compelling subtext of social commentary. Giving yet another powerful and disturbing performance, James Woods stars as the operator of a low-budget cable-TV station who accidentally intercepts a mysterious cable transmission that features the apparent torture and death of women in its programming. He traces the show to its source and discovers a mysterious plot to broadcast a subliminally influential signal into the homes of millions, masterminded by a quasi-religious character named Brian O'Blivion and his overly reverent daughter. Meanwhile Woods is falling under the spell, becoming a victim of video, and losing his grip--both physically and psychologically--on the distinction between reality and television. A potent treatise on the effects of total immersion into our mass-media culture, Videodrome is also (to the delight of Cronenberg's loyal fans) a showcase for obsessions manifested in the tangible world of the flesh. It's a hallucinogenic world in which a television set seems to breathe with a life of its own, and where the body itself can become a VCR repository for disturbing imagery. Featuring bizarre makeup effects by Rick Baker and a daring performance by Deborah Harry (of Blondie fame) as Wood's sadomasochistic girlfriend, Videodrome is pure Cronenberg--unsettling, intelligent, and decidedly not for every taste. --Jeff Shannon
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