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Videodrome full movie is released on Feb 04, 1983. Watch Videodrome online - the English Horror movie from Canada , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $2,120,439. Videodrome is directed by David Cronenberg and created by David Cronenberg with James Woods and Sonja Smits. Videodrome is available online on Apple iTunes and Amazon Video.

Max Renn is the President of Channel 83 Civic-TV, a small television station on the UHF dial. He defends his programming of largely X-rated shows - which depict graphic sex and extreme violence - as a pure matter of economic survival as a small station. Behind closed doors in specific company, he would admit that he enjoys such programming, but as President will stay away from associated activities that may be dangerous for him in its purchase. His current girlfriend, radio personality Nicki Brand, who he met on a television talk show, is sexually aroused by light mutilation on her person, that despite or because her radio show is like an open air crisis hotline. On that same talk show, the other guest via video feed was Professor Brian O'Blivion - solely his stage name - who believes that television and video broadcasts will one day overtake the world as reality, which may make Max's programming in combination more dangerous. In Max's search for the next big thing in like programming already on Channel 83, Harlan, his pirater who scans satellite signals, illegally obtains a satellite feed of something called Videodrome, which depicts continual sexualized torture and murder with no storyline of which to speak. The background behind Videodrome is unknown, but believing it is that big thing for which he is looking, Max is determined to find the producers so that he can purchase it for his station. He is concerned for Nicki if she goes ahead against his warnings in wanting to appear on Videodrome, however it does not lessen his desire to purchase it. If Max in turn does not heed the warning of Masha, one of his long time show suppliers, based on what little she discovers about it, Max may discover that Videodrome is just the next but destructive step in O'Blivion's prognostication.

As know as:

錄影帶謀殺案, Videodrome - tuhon ase, Βιντεοδρόμιο, Vidéodrome, Videodromas

Release Date:

Jan 28, 1983

Release Date (Streaming):

Aug 31, 2004

Countries:

Canada

Language:

English, Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian

Stream Service:

Criterion Collection, Universal Pictures

Production Companies:

Filmplan International, Guardian Trust Company, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)

Gross worldwide:

$2,120,439

Taglines:

From David Cronenberg, Creator of 'Scanners'., First it controlled her mind, then it destroyed her body... Long live the new flesh!, First it controls your mind...then it destroys your body, A shocking new vision., A vision of enormous physical impact!, A terrifying new weapon.

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Gary Arnold
Washington Post
Simultaneously stupefying and boring, Videodrome is too extreme a blunder to survive exposure to a justifiably disillusioned horror-movie public.
by rottentomatoes, Aug 04, 2015
Variety Staff
Variety
Film is dotted with video jargon and ideology which proves more fascinating than distancing. And Cronenberg amplifies the freaky situation with a series of stunning visual effects.
by rottentomatoes, Jun 06, 2007
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
Never coherent and frequently pretentious, the film remains an audacious attempt to place obsessive personal images before a popular audience -- a kind of Kenneth Anger version of Star Wars.
by rottentomatoes, Jun 06, 2007

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