Rating of
3.5/4
Long live the new flesh!
poonhokong - wrote on 04/04/11
Videodrome is one of my favourite movie of all time, and the best ever from David Cronenberg, among other classics such as The Fly (1986), Scanners (1981) and The Brood (1979). It is a multi-layered movie that can be enjoyed on your preference.
The president of Channel 83, Max Renn, had captured pirate signal of a underground show called Videodrome, which contains nothing but people getting tortured and murdered. Amused by the show and seeing the business opportunity to broadcast it, he tried to track the programme down, and gradually came to realize that the show creates a brain trumour to the viewers and made to lost in what is reality and hallucinations.
On the outfront it is a mid-night thriller, the one that would be shown as late night programme on TV, when the kids were sound asleep. It had it all: sex, violence, 80's special effects to gross you out, you name it. And it is on repeated viewing did I know it is so fast paced that once you predict how the plot goes, it already was happening. It satisfy anyone who like 80's horror movies.
Not to get it too long, see more in my blog!
