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When Max Renn goes looking for edgy shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent show called "Videodrome." As he struggles to unearth the origins...
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent 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.
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- Creator
- Universal ; Filmplan International Production ; produced by Claude Héroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, [2004]
- ©2004
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- ISBNs
- 9781559409520, 1559409525
- OCLC
- ocm56430152
- Credits
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- James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, Reiner Schwartz
- Director of photography, Mark Irwin ; art director, Carol Spier ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore ; costume designer, Delphine White
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.
- Special features include audio commentaries; a short film, Camera, written and directed by Cronenberg; a documentary featurette; seven minutes of transmissions from Videodrome in original, unedited form with commentaries; Fear on film, a 26-minute roundtable discussion from 1982 with filmmaker Cronenberg and others; original theatrical trailers and promotional featurette; and still galleries featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production photos, special effects makeup tests, and publicity photos.
- DVD.
- In English with optional subtitles in English.
- Disc 1. Film : Wake-up call -- Max Renn -- Something tough -- The Rena King Show -- Transmissions from Pittsburgh -- "Got any porno?" -- Subterranean connections -- "It has a philosophy" -- Cathode Ray MIssion -- Hallucinations begin -- Brian O'Blivion -- "Careful. It bites." -- Perceptions of reality -- Barry Convex -- Rude awakening -- "Savage new times" -- Handgun -- Assassin -- Reprogrammed -- "See you in Pittsburgh" -- Death to Videodrome -- "Long live the new flesh" -- Extras : Audio commentaries : David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin; James Woods and Deborah Harry -- Camera, a short film written and directed by Cronenberg, starring Les Carlson (2000) (7 min.)
- Disc 2. Supplements : Forging the new flesh / Michael Lennick [Documentary on video and prosthetic makeup effects] (28 min.) -- Effects men [Audio interview with Rick Baker, creator of special makeup effects and Lennick] (min.) -- Bootleg video [Three short films seen on television in the film, including Samurai dreams] (17 min.) -- Fear on film [Roundtable discussion from 1982 with directors Cronenberg, John Landis, and John Carpenter] (26 min.) -- Marketing [trailers, making of documentary, stills galleries] (12 min.) -- Stills galleries [special effects, cast & crew]
- Booklet : Make mine Cronenberg / Carrie Ricks -- Medium cruel: reflections on Videodrome / Tim Lucas -- That slithery sense of unreality / Gary Indiana