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Videodrome (1983)
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Love it or loathe it, David Cronenberg's 1983 horror film Videodrome is a movie to be reckoned with. Inviting extremes of response from disdain (critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the least entertaining films ever made") to academic euphoria, it's the kind of film that is simultaneously sickening and seemingly devoid of humanity, but also blessed with provocative ideas and a compelling subtext of social commentary. Giving yet another powerful and disturbing performance, James Woods stars as the operator of a low-budget cable-TV station who accidentally intercepts a mysterious cable transmission that features the apparent torture and...
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Here's an excerpt from THE LORD-OF-PAIN'S PRAYER - And deliver us 'to' evil. For their pain is Our Kingdom, Our Power, Our Glory. Forever. And ever. Until they're dead. Amen.
Did you actually know that your TV-Set is, literally, controlling you?? It is! Yeah. It's probably running your life for you, right now, and you...
(complete Videodrome review by OOGA BOOGA)
Videodrome Movie Review by Jarrod  (6/28/2007) |
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Is Videodrome a typical or atypical Cronenberg film? I am not sure. I tend to like most of the eccentric director's work, but I did not particularly care for this. James Woods plays the manager of a small TV station that offers pornographic and violent material to its viewers, and he gets to see pirated footage of a new...
(complete Videodrome review by Jarrod)
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