Videodrome

Videodrome

  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Countries of origin: Canada
  • Language: English
  • Release date: February 4, 1983
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Відеодром
  • "Videodrome" is a thrilling fantasy film directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods and Deborah Harry .
    The film tells a series of incredible and thrilling experiences that Max, the manager of the citizen television company, started after watching a reality show called "TV Arena". The film was released in the United States on February 4, 1983. 

    Details

    • Release date February 4, 1983
    • Filming locations 6 Wellington Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies Filmplan International, Guardian Trust Company, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)

    Box office

    Budget

    $5,952,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,120,439

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $1,194,175

    Gross worldwide

    $2,120,439

    Movie reviews

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    • By Mireille 2022-04-20 09:01:49

      Violent pornography is harmful

      Violent pornographic films are really harmful, especially those that make black films such as underground abuse, murder, and dismemberment. They are simply inhumane. Some masochists really don't know what's going on, maybe their heads are broken. It seems that there were many movies about this kind of black film in that era. Was there really a crooked trend of watching movies like this in movie theaters at that time? In the film, Marx imagined that his stomach was like a vagina, and he put a...

    • By Susanna 2022-04-20 08:01:06

      "Videotape Murder"-TV killed everyone

      I didn't understand the movie too much. Some plots in the movie are puzzling. I think this is a very weird, somewhat mysterious, disturbing movie (even a little bit of mystery).

      The actor is the boss of the TV station. By chance, he was attracted by the TV program produced by "TV Station Competitive". He asked someone to investigate the source of this mysterious show, and finally found the professor who was on the show with him. To his surprise, he...

    • By Landen 2022-04-20 08:01:06

      "Videotape Murder": Cronenberg's physical fear

      In the 1970s, David Cronenberg emerged from low-cost horror movies such as "The Creepy" and "Rabies". In 1981, he gained a slight reputation due to the box office sales of "The Deadly Man". But the Canadian genius director is by no means satisfied with the stylized horror genre. He has been trying to create his own unique illusion world since his first work, hiding metaphors and philosophical thinking in it. In 1983, when "Videotape Murders" turned out, it may not be as successful as...

    • By Seamus 2022-04-20 08:01:06

      The medium devours humans

      In the 1980s, television officially entered the era of new media and achieved its own media expansion. The situation is very good. However, David Cronenberg took this as the subject and shot such a weird work, that is, "Videotape Murder". , Originally named "Videodrome", a self-made vocabulary, literally translated as "video syndrome", this expression is also in line with the protagonist MAX's experience.

        Cronenberg's control of the film has two points, alienation and liberation....

    • By Alisha 2022-04-20 08:01:06

      Media control, entertainment to death!

      The movie is a bit complicated, and I don’t know what to say after watching it! First of all, I want to clarify this complicated content. The clearest backbone of the film is media control, and desire to death! This movie is very advanced, it is a psychological masterpiece, and it also carries a certain kind of advanced judgment. It deeply derives the stupidity and control of the mass spirit by the development of media (TV) entertainment, thereby destroying people’s true touch and falling...

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    • By Kari 2023-09-14 18:06:11

      It feels like there is some connection with Cronenberg's later eXistenZ, full of imagination! The Flesh special effects of the 80s are...

    • By Jasen 2023-07-14 14:55:10

      DAVID...

    • By Elinore 2023-06-08 08:18:43

      Cronenberg's penchant for weird organs and slime started with the '83 videotape, then '86 The Fly Man, and '99 culminated in sensory...

    • By Edd 2023-06-04 18:00:55

      The director's intention is obvious. I don't like this film instinctively, maybe watching it in the 1980s will be more...

    • By Micheal 2023-03-19 11:47:28

      Almost didn't vomit....

    Movie plot

    Max ( played by James Woods ) , a manager of a citizen television company that specializes in broadcasting pornographic and violent films , accidentally intercepted and received a short piece of satellite video when collecting pornographic videos from various places. The content was carried out in a third world scene. Realistic SM pornographic film "TV Arena". Max was immediately attracted by such naked pornography and violence, and...
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    Evaluation action

    "Videodrome" combines horror, science fiction, depth and complexity. The director responded with such a movie that the world has been occupied by media violence (the powerful group afterwards), ordinary people are deeply trapped in it (a metaphor of brain tumor) and they are unable to extricate themselves, and people are controlled by the illusion of the image!
    The director used television to depict the terrible future of mankind....
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    Movie quotes

    • Max Renn: Have you been hallucinating lately?

      Harlan: No. Should I be?

      Max Renn: Yes, you should be.

    • Brian O'Blivion: After all, there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there?

    • Max Renn: I am the Video Word made Flesh.