Directed by David Cronenberg
Television executive Max Renn stumbles upon a strange and brutally violent television show, setting off a chain of disturbing, hallucinatory events in Cronenberg’s darkly satirical vision of a media and society obsessed with sex and violence. Featuring Deborah Harry as a sadomasochistic talk show host, and a videocassette as a throbbing lump of flesh, Videodrome is persuasive evidence that the demise of VCRs and UHF television was probably for the best.
Universal Pictures. Producer: Claude Heroux. Screenwriter: David Cronenberg. Cinematographer: Mark Irwin. Editor: Ron Sanders. Cast: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson.
35mm, color, 87 min.
