Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780783228457
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783228457
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD20387D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 08, 1998
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: February 04, 1983

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The manager of a toronto cable-tv station tracks an unlisted torture/death show. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/12/2005 Starring: James Woods Jack Creley Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R Director: David Cronenberg

Amazon.com essential video:
Love it or loathe it, David Cronenberg's 1983 horror film Videodrome is a movie to be reckoned with. Inviting extremes of response from disdain (critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the least entertaining films ever made") to academic euphoria, it's the kind of film that is simultaneously sickening and seemingly devoid of humanity, but also blessed with provocative ideas and a compelling subtext of social commentary. Giving yet another powerful and disturbing performance, James Woods stars as the operator of a low-budget cable-TV station who accidentally intercepts a mysterious cable transmission that features the apparent torture and death of women in its programming. He traces the show to its source and discovers a mysterious plot to broadcast a subliminally influential signal into the homes of millions, masterminded by a quasi-religious character named Brian O'Blivion and his overly reverent daughter. Meanwhile Woods is falling under the spell, becoming a victim of video, and losing his grip--both physically and psychologically--on the distinction between reality and television. A potent treatise on the effects of total immersion into our mass-media culture, Videodrome is also (to the delight of Cronenberg's loyal fans) a showcase for obsessions manifested in the tangible world of the flesh. It's a hallucinogenic world in which a television set seems to breathe with a life of its own, and where the body itself can become a VCR repository for disturbing imagery. Featuring bizarre makeup effects by Rick Baker and a daring performance by Deborah Harry (of Blondie fame) as Wood's sadomasochistic girlfriend, Videodrome is pure Cronenberg--unsettling, intelligent, and decidedly not for every taste. --Jeff Shannon




Rating: - "Long live the new flesh!"
Videodrome was a fantastic film by Cronenberg, I remember watching this film for the very first time just a few years ago and I was really impressed by this. I just thought that the film was more relevant and contemporary nowadays then it was back then. This innovative mix of science fiction, sex, violence, surrealism and horror has lost none of its touch over the years. I have enjoyed most of Cronenberg's movies and think he is one of the most underrated directors out there, this film definitely ... Read More

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Rating: - Bad.
Probably the worst Cronenberg film I've seen, and I am a fan. An incoherent, pretentious mess. Sorry I wasted my time.

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Rating: - Cult
I was disapointed when i watched this movie. Nice cover and booklet, but that's all.

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Rating: - Snuff, Hallucinations, & Mutations, Oh my!!!!
Rick Baker,
James Woods,
Stomach cavity caches,
Bubbling videotapes,
Bubbling, bullet-rittled bodies,
a uniquely erotic sex-scene,
man morphing with his gun,
assassintion plans,
and a guy who exists entirley on videotapes.
Bizarre doesn't begin to descibe this cinematic anomaly.
There is only one word to descirbe madness such as this.....
....Cronenberg.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Kill your television!!!!

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Rating: - humorless, yawn.
I really wanted to like Videodrome - I'm a Canadian myself and his later work is compelling. I found Videodrome boring, too self-serious, and some of the plot points inconsistent. I can't go into a lot of detail without spoiling some of it, but it involves explaining away one character as a recording when previously in the film, that character was obviously interacting in the real world.

It seems like Videodrome tries hard to make some philosophical point that doesn't really come through ... Read More

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