Description:Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian psychological thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods and singer Debbie Harry from Blondie. Max Renn (James Woods) is the president of CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12), a sleazy Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased wVideodrome is a 1983 Canadian psychological thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods and singer Debbie Harry from Blondie. Max Renn (James Woods) is the president of CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12), a sleazy Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his station's current lineup (which mostly consists of softcore pornography), Renn is on a seemingly endless quest for something that isn't so "soft" and will "break through" to a new audience.... (more)(less)
"YouTube!
A sort of merging of the corporeal world with the hyperreality of video and television - by way of user-generated material. That, we think you'll find, equals YouTube!
Now, of course, we love the Internet and there are some very good things about YouTube - but, with four-million videos uploaded every five seconds, the quality control is a bit off. For every smart DIY instructional vid and ace conceptual mash-up, there's a hundred films of someone's cat being sick."
"There are distinct signs of strain in the plot convolutions, not least in the spectator's loss of faith over indiscriminate and cheating use of hallucination; what certainly survives is Cronenberg's wholesale disgust with the world in general.
- Time Out"
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The Ups: It is the ultimate David Cronenberg movie with all his perverted themes. Extreme sex, gore, bodypart-fetishes and a story so intense and sick that only this director could do it with such style. Who else could manage to make through a scene where a man puts his hand into a vagina into a film and getting away with it or a seductive Deborah Harry in S&M mode? "Long Live the New Flesh".
Downs: That I feel so "dirty" afterwards. Mohahahahaha. "