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Videodrome is a film directed by David Cronenberg with James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Jack Creley .... Year: 1983. Original title: Videodrome. Synopsis: Lowlife cable TV operator Max Renn discovers a "snuff TV" broadcast called Videodrome. But Videodrome is more than a TV show - it's an experiment that uses regular TV transmissions to ...
Feb 3, 2023 · Despite releasing in the early ‘80s, Videodrome first tasted life as a similar script Cronenberg wrote in the ‘70s called Network of Blood, itself a thread from the director’s childhood.As a ...
Dec 3, 2012 · It’s in Woods’ eyes: what Cronenberg called “Dangerous, paranoid intellectualism.”. Unlike Scanners two years before, Videodrome was not a hit when Universal Pictures placed it in cinemas ...
Jul 20, 2020 · Videodrome’s messaging is blunt and literal – media as something infectious, sickly seductive, harmful even physically – but it draws from very real concerns regarding the exponential rise of TV viewing in the 80s. This was the first time that the screen threatened to rival or even supplant our actual five senses as the medium of truth, whether measured by the number of people viewing or ...
Oct 9, 2023 · on the Criterion Collection. With Criterion’s glorious 4K restoration of Videodrome, the new flesh lives anew. by Chris Cabin Ed Gonzalez. October 9, 2023. The enemy, as it seems it always has been, is within in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, but its violence, gore, and torrential mayhem is hard to miss. Influenced by the writings of ...
Videodrome is core science fiction in which director David Cronenberg truly hit his pace as an innovator of bizarre intellectual concepts. He not only introduced the first fully realized virtual reality world in a movie, he did it with more dangerous ideas than had ever seen the light of a film with major distribution: insidious technology, porn, violence, sado-masochism, underground video and ...
