Videodrome
1983
***½
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Jack Creley, Les Carlson, Lynne Gorman
Max Renn, the president of a trashy TV station, becomes obsessed with Videodrome, a mysterious broadcast which appears to depict real-life torture and murder. David Cronenberg's cult body horror film is often uncomfortable viewing, but there is no denying that it deals with a topic which seems even more topical now 40 years later, namely how moving images can influence us or make us question our reality. Max's journey down a disturbingly hallucinatory path is wonderfully visualised with Rick Baker's special effects.
