Videodrome1983
“First it controls your mind. Then it destroys your body.”
Directed by David Cronenberg
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🏆 3 wins & 7 nominations total
The premise
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.
Horror Vault's take
A sleazy cable TV exec stumbles onto an illegal broadcast of extreme violence that seems too real to be fiction — and the deeper he digs, the harder it becomes to separate his own reality from what he sees on screen. Director David Cronenberg weaponizes the nascent home-video era to craft a hallucinatory nightmare about the human body's disturbing relationship with media. Flesh and machine begin to blur in ways that are as intellectually provocative as they are grotesque. Videodrome remains one of the most daring and unsettling science-fiction horror films ever committed to celluloid.
Content: Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Sexual Violence, Sadomasochistic Content, Suicide, Disturbing Hallucination Sequences
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