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starring: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlsondirected by: David Cronenberg
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300182776
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300182770
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 14267
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: February 04, 1983
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Love it or loathe it, David Cronenberg's 1983 horror film Videodrome is a movie to be reckoned with. Inviting extremes of response from disdain (critic Roger Ebert called it 'one of the least entertaining films ever made') to academic euphoria, it's the kind of film that is simultaneously sickening and seemingly devoid of humanity, but also blessed with provocative ideas and a compelling subtext of social commentary. Giving yet another powerful and disturbing performance, James Woods stars as the operator of a low-budget cable-TV station who accidentally intercepts a mysterious cable transmission that features the apparent torture and death of women in its programming. He traces the show to its source and discovers a mysterious plot to broadcast a subliminally influential signal into the homes of millions, masterminded by a quasi-religious character named Brian O'Blivion and his overly reverent daughter. Meanwhile Woods is falling under the spell, becoming a victim of video, and losing his grip--both physically and psychologically--on the distinction between reality and television. A potent treatise on the effects of total immersion into our mass-media culture, Videodrome is also (to the delight of Cronenberg's loyal fans) a showcase for obsessions manifested in the tangible world of the flesh. It's a hallucinogenic world in which a television set seems to breath with a life of its own, and where the body itself can become a VCR repository for disturbing imagery. Featuring bizarre makeup effects by Rick Baker and a daring performance by Deborah Harry (of Blondie fame) as Wood's sadomasochistic girlfriend, Videodrome is pure Cronenberg--unsettling, intelligent, and decidedly not for every taste. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Cult
I was disapointed when i watched this movie. Nice cover and booklet, but that's all.
Rating:  - Snuff, Hallucinations, & Mutations, Oh my!!!!
Rick Baker,
James Woods,
Stomach cavity caches,
Bubbling videotapes,
Bubbling, bullet-rittled bodies,
a uniquely erotic sex-scene,
man morphing with his gun,
assassintion plans,
and a guy who exists entirley on videotapes.
Bizarre doesn't begin to descibe this cinematic anomaly.
There is only one word to descirbe madness such as this.....
....Cronenberg.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Kill your television!!!!
Rating:  - humorless, yawn.
I really wanted to like Videodrome - I'm a Canadian myself and his later work is compelling. I found Videodrome boring, too self-serious, and some of the plot points inconsistent. I can't go into a lot of detail without spoiling some of it, but it involves explaining away one character as a recording when previously in the film, that character was obviously interacting in the real world.
It seems like Videodrome tries hard to make some philosophical point that doesn't really come through ... Read More
Rating:  - Videodrome - Good condition
There were no problems with the product when i recieved it, i got it right on time, and overall i was very satisfied. If i order any movies or books or whatever it may be, i will get it from this site.
Rating: - Soon, we will all have "special names"
The idea of people being brainwashed into drones just by watching television is a very serious and scary idea. Mostly because I'm in front of it a lot.
After watching this I thought that this was a very Cronenberg film. The ever-returning theme of humans integrating with machinery is very much presented here by James Woods' character blending in with his hallucinations and becoming the new technology everybody must be afraid of. The gun mutating with his arm is the obvious example of this. ... Read More
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