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83% Tomatometer 59 Reviews 80% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he...
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Nov 3, 2023 · When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new material for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called “Videodrome.” His attempts to unearth the program’s origins send him on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and ...
Feb 4, 2023 · As Collider looks back at classic films, a first-time watcher reviews David Cronenberg’s body-horror cult classic Videodrome.
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Feb 2, 2023 · Videodrome is a no-frills S&M and torture show on a pirate cable channel in Cronenberg’s film, discovered by what appears to be an accident by indie program director Max Renn (James Woods), who becomes obsessed with it despite of, or perhaps because of, its lack of character, dialogue, sophisticated production value nor, indeed, plot. Always ...
Videodrome Reviews. The cold, the mechanical, the projected — all of these traits become lively embodied and erotic. Full Review | Jun 5, 2024. While Videodrome is in some ways a very heady ...
Videodrome (1983) was a bizarre film that David Cronenberg made before he become a "director-for-hire" for his next couple of films. He takes a cerebral look at the ever popular fad of pirate satellite feeds and small-time t.v. channels.
Oct 17, 2023 · Cronenberg’s quintessential masterpiece, Videodrome penetrates the viewer with a paradoxical balance of cerebral and visceral. Criterion has done the film justice yet again, continuing to raise...
