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True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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.

Videodrome was made more than three decades ago and dispute the setting of cable TV being nowadays outdated ,the idea it isn't. Far from it, it actually quit prophetic about the evolution of mass entertainment.In the story we follow a sleazy TV programmer, who's programs are of questionable quality to be polite and he tries to find the next best thing in order to get more audience. And the he finds out Videodrome, a show like no other, with an extremely violent imagery. But during his watch he starts to have some disturbing visions and at times it is hard to understand if watch he saw was real or not. In general David Cronenberg is master on making something unsettling feel close to the watcher as if he is facing them and Videodrome is no exception.To the prophetic , the main theme of the movie is how over-exposure in violence can cause significant mental and psychical damage to the brain and body. Now the idea that watch violence in movies and television will make cruel yourself, it is wrong for nowadays we have dozens of violent TV shows and the global crime rate is lower than when Videodrome came out, but I won't disagree with that watching mindless slaughter in your free time it isn't the best way to have a good time. For instance in Game of Thrones a lot of horrible events take place, but the reason they are so painful is that we care about the characters in it, while in Passion of Christ we only see Jesus becoming out of the blue a bloody pulp ( I don't make any religious remark I judge the film as it is) so yes horrific but why?And that is I think what Cronenberg try to warn us. Also if you are bit conspiracy crazy with that film you will either have a blast or go nuts. If you want to watch it do it at your own digression, for it has also scenes for which Cronenberg is famous for.All in all it is a really interesting film and a must watch for anyone with strong opinion about the way violence is presented to the audience, I hypothesis you will find a lot of meat in that flick.

Videodrome is a classic sci/fi horror film from David Cronenberg which stars James Woods in what has to be his best role as a T.V. producer in the not too distant future. Woods turns in another great performance, and the cast is appropriate. Cronenberg paces this very well, and can make the film scary without having to have someone suddenly jump out with a knife. Also notable are the effects by a rising Rick Baker and the score by Howard Shore. Plus, this is one of the first films to explore the possibility of TV influence on the masses, only that taking it to another more demented level. The story's highly original and is filled with bizarre imagery, looking at it from today's standpoint it's unsettling how prophetic the movie was.Cronenberg gathered many parts of a script and ideas together to create a near avant-garde film that uses TV and fanatical programmers as villains. Suffice to say that what starts out as an already interesting and challenging portrait of a soft-porn Cable-TV station owner looking for the next big thing in the adult entertainment world evolves into a nightmare that relentlessly never eases until the very last frame. his film was ahead of its time by decades and is still a significant movie using TV/Media as the vehicle for great evil, as prompted by an already receptive audience. Cronenberg suggests that we have created a TV Pornographic Frankenstein that is out of control.So, this is as close as it gets to a morality tale of one man's descent into hell, but it's also an outrageously twisted glimpse at what might happen when broadcast media becomes completely unregulated - pretty far-sighted in 1983. Almost thirty years further down the line, you'll still need a Kevlar-coated stomach to fully appreciate the film's 'message', but it's worth it.Overall rating: 9 out of 10.