When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome.  As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.  Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry in one of her first film roles, Videodrome is one of writer/director David Cronenberg’s most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence.  With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award®-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and mind-bending science fiction films of the 1980s.

“Classic Cronenberg: filled with body horror, philosophy and delicately balancing Canadian inferiority complexes and American media saturation. More Debbie Harry because she’s outstanding.” – Joe Lipsett, Horror Queers Podcast

“Videodrome” has a lot to say about the bad romance between eye and brain, mind and body. Cronenberg has taken his childhood fear and built a world of conspiracy around it.” – Rob Gonsalves, Rob’s Movie Vault

“Cronenberg uses the fears of television to manipulate an audience as a starting off point for a conspiracy thriller curled around his favorite topics: the response of the body human to technology, and disease and mutation as evolution.” – Sean Axmaker. Stream on Demand

“A sleazy slice of early Cronenberg.”  – Trace Thurman, Horror Queers Podcast

“Cronenberg’s eye gives full rein to the unusual narrative concept and warped reality of the situation.” – Alan Jones, Starburst

“Films like this rouse powerful reactions to their extreme metaphors and violent imagery; but then, there has never been a film quite like this one.” – Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review

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