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Videodrome (1983) | User Rating
(183 votes) | Critic Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 1, 2003
Budget $5,952,000
Running Time
1 hour, 27 minutes
Country Canada
Production Companies
Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC) (produced with the participation of), Famous Players (produced with the participation of) (as Famous Players Limited), Filmplan International (producer), Guardian Trust Company, Victor Solnicki Productions
Studio Filmplan International, Universal
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Videodrome
• Network of Blood
• Zonekiller
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Surreal, Psychodrama, Satire, Cult Classic, Racy, Erotic, Space, Mad Scientists, Murder, Gore, Robots
Tagline: First it controlled her mind, then it destroyed her body... Long live the new flesh!
Plot: Max Renn runs an unauthorized cable channel in Toronto that caters to viewers demanding increasingly violent and pornographic material. One night, in search of new programming fodder, he stumbles across a scrambled satellite transmission emanating from unknown regions -- a startlingly graphic broadcast that routinely depicts the brutal torture and murder of women. Excited by his find, Renn attempts to track the show to its origins, but he continually encounters resistance, including a warning from one of his programming suppliers that the broadcasts are not dramatizations but depictions of actual murders. Undaunted, Renn finally traces the show to Pittsburgh, where he encounters the transmissions of a Messianic madman known as Brian O'Blivion. Although O'Blivion is dead, his daughter continues to spread his twisted gospel by broadcasting old videotapes of his sermons, encouraging people to embrace the barbarous new TV world as reality. Eventually Renn finds the man who is controlling all the hallucinatory video violence. But by then, Max has begun his own descent into madness, an insanity culminating in physical manifestations of the exploitative sleaze he has profited from over the
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 Compelling yet very odd film is unexplainable, eerie and at time gruesome meaning it's definitely not for all tastes.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
As you might have guessed, Videodrome is all about the storyline. This means that you shouldn't expect a film that offers you lots of action, violence and naked women (to name a few things), but instead you get a decent, intelligent and above all original  --Ziggy Sin (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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David Cronenberg
Scanners II: The New Order, Scanners III: The Takeover, Scanner Cop |
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Owning Mahowny, How to Deal, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | | Leslie Carlson
The Fly, A Christmas Story, Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel | Jack Creley
Dr. Strangelove, If You Could See What I Hear, Rituals | Lynne Gorman
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Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Silence of the Lambs |
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