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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

A cable TV programmer, Max, accidentally watches a torture video. He felt it so realistic, and get obsessed with it. But, his life starts changing as he was exposed to the tape. Anyone who watches the tape are prone to have a brain cancer and illusions start working. But, what is real and what is an illusion?The movie is directly a message about the influence and power of television and other social media. This film is very relevant in today's society.As usual David Cronenberg, excels this movie with his stunning practical visual effects. Rick Baker did an amazing job with special make up.The movie with surrealism always fascinates me.A must watch. Highly recommended.#KiduMovie

Videodrome is a movie I've been meaning to see forever. In finally watching it I will never look at my VCR the same way again, ancient, dust-collecting paperweight that it is.James Woods is an excellent choice of an actor to play Videodrome's sleazy antihero lead. Yes, the man has no scruples, but more importantly, the man also has no eyebrows. So you can never tell when he's angry or not.Debbie Harry from Blondie's in this. She's so sexy, and at one point she burns herself with a cigarette. I do that too sometimes, but never on purpose like what she gets up to in this here picture. I wonder if she'll fall asleep with one and accidentally burn down an apartment building like what I do, but on purpose.Anyway, now, for certain, nobody can say that I haven't watched Videodrome.

Of all David Cronenberg's films, "Videodrome" would have to be his relevant. The concept of how television or the media in general controls what we see or what we perceive of subject matter is a disturbing truth. The film is in a sense like George Orwell's "1984" but as imagined by the master of body horror cinema, David Cronenberg.The premise of "Videodrome" revolves around TV executive Max Renn (an immensely unsettling performance by the excellent James Woods) and his obsession with the titular station takes the viewer down a dark rabbit hole of hallucinations, perverse interests, a society that feeds off sex and violence and gross-out moments galore. Lending a feminine touch of perversity to the film in her break-out acting role is "Blondie" singer Deborah Harry as the sadomasochistic Nicki Brand who helps kick-start Max's ultimate downfall into an even more amoral shell of a man.The film heavily relies on the powerhouse performance of James Woods as the morally corrupt Max Renn. Woods pulls out all the stops for the role as he goes from a charming, but despicable smut peddler for his television station to an instrument of destruction not only for himself, but for humanity around him though Max is unaware as his mind deteriorates due to "Videodrome"'s power. James Woods never loses his charm even as Max descends into his delusions even further, but the viewer can tell it won't end well for Max as his mind is susceptible to any form of influence around him.The other key to the film's enduring legacy and intrigue are its terrifying scenes of Max Renn's delusions and the genius effects created by Oscar winning makeup artist, Rick Baker. Baker's arguable masterpiece in "Videodrome" would be the film's infamous cassette slit in Max Renn's abdomen which is first seen halfway into the film. I myself found myself squirming uncomfortably in my seat, clutching my stomach watching James Woods as Max stick his hand into the slit (which was made in a prosthetic torso placed in front of actor James Woods who was glued to the sofa). The film's other memorable squirming scene is Max's hallucination of Nicki on his television and his head melds to the television or the scene near the close of the film is unsettling.If you want a thought-provoking body horror, give "Videodrome" a try but be warned that it is not for the faint of heart.

I like weird movies. I love it when a film maker decides to go outside of the box and use strange and surreal stories to present unusual concepts like TV ruling our world. Croneneberg-notorious for making strange films-directed this picture and his fingerprints are all over it. The questioning of reality, the dream like imagery and the hammy acting are all part of his charm. But frankly, it simply didn't work here. The story of the film is about the head of a TV station named Max Renn that broadcasts sleazy sex-ploitation movies. He comes across a new program called Videodrome that begins to affect the way his mind works. Eventually, reality begins to unfold around him as a war between fiction, reality, and rival companies comes to the surface. Now, the main problem with this film is that it leaves the audience with more questions than answers. Now allowing your audience to think for themselves is a good thing. But allowing too many questions to be wide open isn't. In Inception, letting the audience guess whether or not Leonardo Di Caprio's character was still in a dream or not was a great use of suspense. Videodrome slowly reveals the secrets of it's world but as it does so, it begins to make less and less sense.Did that actually happen or was just in his head? Was that person real or did Videodrome mess with your head? Why is an eyewear company getting involved with TV? It is like a piece of clothing that if you just pull out a little string than the whole thing unravels and turns into a mess. Now the visuals and the special effects are very well done, I will give the movie that. That doesn't make up for the fact though that it isn't really well constructed story wise. If you want to watch a really gross body horror film that questions what reality is, go check out eXistenZ-another Cronenberg film with similar themes to Videodrome but done way better.