When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

General Note:

Originally produced as a Canadian/United States motion picture in 1982.

Contents:

Disc 1. Film : Wake-up call -- Max Renn -- Something tough -- The Rena King Show -- Transmissions from Pittsburgh -- "Got any porno?" -- Subterranean connections -- "It has a philosophy" -- Cathode Ray MIssion -- Hallucinations begin -- Brian O'Blivion -- "Careful. It bites." -- Perceptions of reality -- Barry Convex -- Rude awakening -- "Savage new times" -- Handgun -- Assassin -- Reprogrammed -- "See you in Pittsburgh" -- Death to Videodrome -- "Long live the new flesh" -- Extras : Audio commentaries : David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin; James Woods and Deborah Harry -- Camera, a short film written and directed by Cronenberg, starring Les Carlson (2000) (7 min.).

Disc 2. Supplements : Forging the new flesh / Michael Lennick [Documentary on video and prosthetic makeup effects] (28 min.) -- Effects men [Audio interview with Rick Baker, creator of special makeup effects and Lennick] (min.) -- Bootleg video [Three short films seen on television in the film, including Samurai dreams] (17 min.) -- Fear on film [Roundtable discussion from 1982 with directors Cronenberg, John Landis, and John Carpenter] (26 min.) -- Marketing [trailers, making of documentary, stills galleries] (12 min.) -- Stills galleries [special effects, cast & crew].

Booklet : Make mine Cronenberg / Carrie Ricks -- Medium cruel: reflections on Videodrome / Tim Lucas -- That slithery sense of unreality / Gary Indiana.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).

Genre:

Feature films.

Science fiction films.

Horror films.

Subject Term:

Reality television programs -- Drama.

Cable television -- Drama.

Author(s):

David, Pierre, 1944-

Solnicki, Victor,