I can’t believe I never saw this one before. I thought I had until talking with a friend
and it became clear I was thinking of Cronenberg’s film Scanners. I’ve been missing out. This is a marvelous demented film that’s
packed of ideas and surreal images. It’s
frightening as well as thought provoking.
James Woods plays Max Renn, a shock jock looking for pirated material to
broadcast on his minor cable channel.
He finds a broadcast called Videodrome that shows torture and rape. After watching it though he starts to have
hallucinations and that’s when he falls into a trap that he must desperately
try to break away from or be a puppet to an underground organization. The Criterion version has a great behind the
scene documentary about the make-up effects from Rick Baker. If you haven’t seen this one, do. It’s eerily prophetic. Grade: A
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