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
Other Titles • Videodrome • Network of Blood • Zonekiller • more
Quotes from Videodrome (1983)
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"The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television." -- Professor Brian O'Blivion (Jack Creley)
(28 votes)
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Barry Convex: You'll forgive me if I don't stay around to watch. I just can't cope with the freaky stuff.
(26 votes)
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"Torture, murder, mutilation! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, and almost no production costs. Where do they get actors who can do this?" -- Max Renn (James Woods)
(25 votes)
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Brian O'Blivion: The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena - the Videodrome.
(25 votes)
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Max Renn: I'm looking for something that'll... break through. You know?
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Brian O'Blivion: The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye.
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Max Renn: I want you to stay away from them. Those mondo-weirdo video guys. You know, in some countries, like Argentina, making subversive video is considered a criminal act. They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh... WHO KNOWS?
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Max Renn: [just before Harlan explodes] See you in Pittsburgh.
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Max Renn: Death to Videodrome! Long live The New flesh!
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Nicki Brand: I live in a highly excited state of overstimulation.
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Brian O'Blivion: Television is reality, and reality is less than television.
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Brian O'Blivion: I believe that the growth in my head-this head-this one right here. I think that it is not really a tumor... not an uncontrolled, undirected little bubbling pot of flesh... but that it is in fact a new organ... a new part of the brain.
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Barry Convex: I think that you'll find a little SandM will be necessary to trigger off a good healthy dose of hallucinations.
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Max Renn: Have you ever heard of Videodrome? Masha: Video what? Max Renn: Videodrome. Like video circus, video arena. Masha: No. Max Renn: It's just torture and murder. No plot, no characters, very realistic. I think it's the next thing. Masha: Then God help us all.
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[about violence] Max Renn: Better on T.V. than on the streets.
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Brian O'Blivion: After a while, I started hallucinating, and developed a tumor. I believe the visions caused the tumor, and not the other way around.
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Nicki Brand: Got any porno? Max Renn: You serious? Nicki Brand: Yeah. It gets me in the mood. [looks through casettes] Nicki Brand: What's this? "Videodrome"? Max Renn: Torture. Murder. Nicki Brand: Sounds great. Max Renn: Ain't exactly sex. Nicki Brand: Says who?
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Max Renn: Have you been hallucinating lately? Harlan: No. Should I be? Max Renn: Yes, you should be.
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Brian O'Blivion: After all, there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there?
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Max Renn: I am the Video Word made Flesh.
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Masha: [to Max] Videodrome is something for you to leave alone.
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Masha: Videodrome. What you see on that show, it's for real. It's not acting. It's snuff TV. Max Renn: I don't believe it. Masha: So, don't believe. Max Renn: Why do it for real? It's easier and safer to fake it. Masha: Because it has something that you don't have, Max. It has a philosophy. And that is what makes it dangerous.
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Harlan: I don't work with you for the money. Max Renn: I know that. 'Cause piracy's never just for the money, is it?
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Harlan: North America's getting soft, *patron*, and the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough. We're entering savage new times, and we're giong to have to be pure and direct and strong, if we're going to survive them. Now, you and this cesspool you call a television station and your people who wallow around in it, your viewers who watch you do it, they're rotting us away from the inside. We intend to stop that rot.
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Max Renn: D'you want a cup of coffee?
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