Part of Science on Screen®

Cable TV programmer Max Renn (James Woods) has found the next thing in edgy television. It’s Videodrome — raw, sleazy sensation picked up via satellite from where life is cheap. It’s Videodrome — a new means of controlling and culling the populace. It’s Videodrome — and once you’ve seen it, the next step in human evolution has already started…inside you. Long live the new flesh!

“Of course, it is no coincidence that VIDEODROME now appears scarily prophetic in the way it depicts the intersection of sex, violence, media and technology. Cronenberg is a master at intuitively tapping into our collective subconscious. He knows how people are wired, so even though VIDEODROME operates on the level of its central character’s deranged dream logic, the director is able to reflect our innate fears and desires back at us with sobering clarity and precision.” —Adam Woodward, Little White Lies

“Its dense mysteries remain more tantalizing than distancing: No other director integrates the creepy with the cerebral quite like Cronenberg.” —Scott Tobias, A.V. Club