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Videodrome

1983

David Cronenberg

James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Jack Creley ...

6.6

14,125

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Horror Lowlife cable TV operator Max Renn discovers a "snuff TV" broadcast called Videodrome. But Videodrome is more than a TV show - it's an experiment that uses regular TV transmissions to permanently alter the viewer's perceptions by giving them brain damage. Max is caught in the middle of the forces that created Videodrome and the forces that want to control it, his body itself turning into the ultimate weapon to fight them.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"Cronenberg remains the single most important director working in horror. You won't forget 'Videodrome' in a hurry (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Though 'Videodrome' finally grows grotesque and a little confused, it begins very well and sustains its cleverness for a long while.	NEU
United Kingdom	The Guardian	"Cronenberg's weirdness is often more eccentric than scary (...) But unlike Joel Schumacher's '8MM', Videodrome brings originality and wit to the subject."	POS
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"Simultaneously stupefying and boring, [it] is too extreme a blunder to survive exposure to a justifiably disillusioned horror-movie public."	NEG
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"No other director integrates the creepy with the cerebral quite like Cronenberg (...) Photography may be death, but 'Videodrome' hasn't aged a bit."	POS

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