Videodrome (2-DVD) R
First it controls your mind. Then it destroys your body.
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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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Woods, Sonja Smits & Deborah Harry | |
Performer: | Peter Dvorsky | |
Featured: | Les Carlson | |
Directed by | David Cronenberg | |
Screenwriting by | David Cronenberg | |
Produced by | Claude Héroux |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Cronenberg] is developing a real genius for this sort of thing....[Woods] gives the performance a sharply authentic edge...
New York Times
...[The] picture is a real find for horror buffs looking for new thrills...
Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
On a line starting with quality and ending with incompetence.
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BBC.com
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.
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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.
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Father Son Holy Gore
[I]t looks outright prophetic and, even scarier, absolutely coherent.
Premiere
Rating: 3.5/4 --
...envisions a coming world of authoritarian entertainment.
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LarsenOnFilm
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.
Keywords:
Cult Film
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Psychodrama
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Racy
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Erotic
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Recommended
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Surreal
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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- UPC: 715515015424
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