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Videodrome (1983) 7.3
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7.3/10 from 37,998 users
Metascore: 60/100
Reviews: 193 user | 128 critic | 6 from Metacritic.com A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station. Director:David CronenbergWriter:David Cronenberg |
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Cast
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Barry Convex
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Lynne Gorman | ... | |
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Reiner Schwartz | ... | |
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Lally Cadeau | ... | |
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Harvey Chao | ... | |
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Kay Hawtrey | ... | |
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Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show--he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy. Written by Paul Reynolds <pauljr@innotts.co.uk>
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First it controls your mind...then it destroys your body See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
CanadaLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 February 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cuerpos invadidos See more »Box Office
Budget:
$5,952,000 (estimated)Company Credits
Production Co:
Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Famous Players, Filmplan International See more »
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The majority of the trailer was created with a Commodore 64 computer. See more »Goofs
Barry Convex proclaims Lorenzo de Medici as the author of the two famous ocular quotes. The first, "love comes in at the eye", is from a William Butler Yeats poem called "A Drinking Song". The second, "the eye is the window of the soul", is not definitively attributable to any one source. Seemingly similar variations exist in Cicero, European proverbs and the Gospel of Matthew. See more »Quotes
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.See more »
Wow! My favorite actor and my favorite singer in the same movie! Deborah Harry (of Blondie fame) gives a great non-blonde performance as an "emotionally energized" radio show host, and James Woods is a scummy business-minded owner of a seedy TV station.
Like "Brazil" or "Twelve Monkeys" this movie will make you think, and even though there isn't really much violence or horror, your mind will fill in the parts that aren't there. The ability of a movie to do this makes it a must-see alone. You constantly ask yourself "is this real?" just as the main character is asking the same thing.
One thing about this movie is that they never really answer a lot of things. As we watch the main character go in and out of reality, the audience is never quite sure what is really happening either. They never tell us. They never truly explain who is behind Videodrome, or even what happens to James Woods. If you didn't like the ending of Network or Twelve Monkeys, then you won't like the lack of explanation here either.
Lots of underlying messages here too, involving television, pornography, and technology - all of which are more significant today than in 1983. Note common themes such as the head in a box. Excellently made film, the only thing that would have made it better is more story.