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Slant's 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (100 movies items)

"This hard, sleazy riff on a famous Marshall McLuhan quote (“the medium is the message”) is one of the great visionary horror movies, and potentially the most prescient. It marries disconcertingly erotic images with Cronenberg’s great theme of misleadingly frivolous technology as an insidious initiator of ambiguous new evolutions. Though TV is the medium under consideration, all of the film’s observations can be adapted, with chilling ease, to suit the ongoing proliferation of laptops, ce"

2019 Movie Diary (52 movies items)

"May 19, 2019"

Favorite Drama Films: 1982-1983 (68 movies items)

" Directed by: David Cronenberg Produced by: Claude Heroux, Pierre David, and Victor Slonick Written by: David Cronenberg Cinematography: Mark Irwin Edited by: Roland Sanders Music by: Howard Shore Distributed by: Universal Pictures"

Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)

"“Just torture and murder: No character, no plot—I think it’s the future.” Predicting an entire cottage industry of torture porn, not to mention presaging an untold number of contemporary corporate conspiracies and government-surveillance controversies, David Cronenberg’s Videodrome fused a generation’s nascent fascination with the entertainment value of the perverse into a hallucinatory hybrid horror-thriller with vast cinematic and social intent. When James Woods’s underground tel"

Best Films of 1983 (50 movies items)

"So strange and weird, yet intoxicating. Croneneberg had a hell of a year with this and The Dead Zone"

Elokuvapäiväkirja 2018 (216 movies items)

"13.4 "Long live the new flesh!" Kyllä tämä se paras Cronenberg on ehdottomasti ja kasaritunnelma on käsin kosketeltavissa. Ennakko-odotukseni yllättävä tapaus, joka ei Bennyn videon tavoin ole vain pelkkä moraalisarna televisioväkivallan desensitisoivasta vaikutuksesta. Kyseessä on enemmänkin elokuva tukahdetuista fantasioista, joita televisioväkivallan raakuus heijastaa oikean elämän väkivallan lisäksi. James Woodsin rintaan kasvaa vagina, johon voi laittaa videokasetteja, mik"

Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Films: 1982-1983 (32 movies items)

" Directed by: David Cronenberg Produced by: Claude Heroux, Pierre David, and Victor Slonick Written by: David Cronenberg Cinematography: Mark Irwin Edited by: Roland Sanders Music by: Howard Shore Distributed by: Universal Pictures"

Watched in 2017 (180 movies items)

"Dec 15th 6.6 "

100 Years, 100 WTFs? (By Vote+) (37 movies items)

" VIDEODROME Argus. Total Score: 6 points. "

Project #1 -1001 Movies I Must see Before I die- (1167 movies items)

" Rating iMDB: My Rating: Director: Actors: Genre: The Plot:"

Favorite Horror Films: 1983 (16 movies items)

" Directed by: David Cronenberg Produced by: Claude Heroux, Pierre David, and Victor Slonick Written by: David Cronenberg Cinematography: Mark Irwin Edited by: Roland Sanders Music by: Howard Shore Distributed by: Universal Pictures"