Videodrome (2-DVD) R

First it controls your mind. Then it destroys your body.
Videodrome (2-DVD)
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DVD Details

  • New High-Definition Digital Transfer
  • Commentaries By David Cronenberg, James Woods, Deborah Harry, And Mark Irwin
  • Camera, A 2000 Short Film By David Cronenberg Forming The New Flesh, A New Half-Hour Documentary Featurette By Video Effects Artist Michael Lennick
  • "Samurai Dreams," The Complete Faux Japanese AV Feature Seen in the Film
  • A Discussion with Cronenberg, John Carpenter, John Landis, and Mick Garris
  • Original Theatrical Trailers
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 31, 2004
  • Originally Released: 1983
  • Label: Criterion

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 41,106
...[Cronenberg] is developing a real genius for this sort of thing....[Woods] gives the performance a sharply authentic edge...
New York Times
Feb 4, 1983
...[The] picture is a real find for horror buffs looking for new thrills...
Variety
Feb 2, 1983
Rating: 2/5 -- On a line starting with quality and ending with incompetence. Full Review
BBC.com
Apr 18, 2001
Rating: 87/100 -- ...an intriguing, deeply interesting film that over the course of almost three decades has acquired a prescient quality, but it's also schlock; a kind of cyberpunk rewrite of Network that indulges Cronenberg's taste for venereal horror. Full Review
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Jan 16, 2011
Rating: 5/5 -- Videodrome shows us a world of our making should we continue a dangerous relationship with media, its various mediums, the images it puts into our brains. Full Review
Father Son Holy Gore
May 6, 2019
[I]t looks outright prophetic and, even scarier, absolutely coherent.
Premiere
Oct 1, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- ...envisions a coming world of authoritarian entertainment. Full Review
LarsenOnFilm
Jan 30, 2018

Description by OLDIES.com:

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 unearths 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. Renn's ordinary life dissolves around him, and he finds himself at the center of a conflict between opposing factions in the struggle to control the truth behind the radical human future of "the New Flesh." 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, and The Criterion Collection is proud to present it in its full-length unrated edition.

Product Description:

Sleazy cable TV programmer Max Renn (Woods) encounters a strange new program known as "Videodrome". Under its mysterious influence, Max's fantasies seem to come to life as strange things begin to happen and reality is not what it seems. Unmistakable weirdness from cult director Cronenberg.

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