Videodrome stars James Woods as Max Renn, the head of Channel 83 in Toronto which is a small station wanting to hit it big and the program calling itself Videodrome may prove the key to the success of his Station.
Videodrome is simply terrific, director David Cronenberg finds a very nice balance between his horror effects which gruesome but also very effective and it combines with a beautiful commentary on what is basically Video Violence.
For you see, the early 1980s was very much the Video Boom and with that came a lot of violent Video tapes and Videodrome very much comments on this with the points it makes in the movie about how it will affect your mind in a certain way and that having these Video tapes in your hand was somehow going to corrupt your mind in bad ways and that was certainly the case in regards to violent Videos in the 80s and for me, it was not hard to think of that whilst watching this film.
The film also has some great performances most notably Woods who absolutely holds your attention throughout as he goes through the changes he does throughout the film and Deborah Harry is also effective in her role as well albeit not as prominent as Woods is.
What else can I say but Long Live the New Flesh and this is a terrific film, 4 out of 5.
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