| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | Videodrome (1983) |
| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Writer | David Cronenberg |
| Lead Actor | James Woods |
| Cast | James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley |
| Genre | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller |
| Release Date | February 4, 1983 (Canada) |
| Duration | 1h 49m (109 min) |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDb Rating | 7.3/10 |
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Videodrome (1983)
That’s James Woods describing Videodrome, the pirate TV show his programming exec Max discovers being broadcast, ostensibly from Malaysia. The show features people mostly naked women being electrocuted, beaten, and eventually killed. That’s the show. Woods’s Max becomes obsessed with the show, which he quickly discovers is real not make-believe. And it’s not Malaysian, it’s from Pittsburgh. And there’s something underneath the regular track something sinister that ultimately reveals a dark conspiracy.
Or is it all a hallucination?
Between bouts of rough sex with girlfriend Nicki (Blondie singer Deborah Harry), Woods plays P.I. with a host of interesting and absurd characters. Director David Cronenberg ultimately turns in a film that is frequently nonsensical, but was years before its time. Not only is there a prescient story about the perils of media overexposure and its desensitizing effect within, Videodrome also forecasted the reality TV craze that would emerge a decade later.
Videodrome is probably better known for its Rick Baker designed special effects, which are heavy on throbbing videotapes, tables, and televisions, culminating in a man-meets-machine creep out that defined a new genre of horror/sci-fi. Cronenberg himself would borrow the ideas again in eXistenZ. The Matrix is directly inspired by Videodrome’s story and effects.
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