Videodrome

(1983)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 2,559 votes

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Year: 1983

Runtime: 84 мин

Country: Canada

Director: Дэвид Кроненберг

Cast: Джеймс Вудс, Дебби Харри, Соня Смитс, Питер Дворски, Лесли Карлсон, Джек Крили, Линн Горман, Джули Ханер, Райнер Шварц, David Bolt

Plot

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyper-violent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation. Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry in one of her first film roles, Videodrome is one of writer/director David Cronenberg's most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence. With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award®-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and mind-bending science fiction films of the 1980s.