This movie sure was prescient..

This prescient effort forecasts a time when it takes nothing short of a snuff film to get people's attention. Lest it seem too heady with all this social commentary, this is absolutely Cronenberg in peak gross-out form, complete with a yonic slit that appears upon Woods's midsection allowing him to handily store things like videotapes and guns inside his torso. It's a film where "cerebral" applies equally to the themes and the fact that brains are going to get graphically spilled at some point.

If you've ever wanted to see James Woods spoon a member of Blondie naked and pierce their ears, look no further.

18 Kasim 07 & saat 16:36 - dvd.

Although the plot is pretty disjointed, the themes still come across clearly. It's amazing how accurate this movie turned out to be, when you consider the massive success of "torture" movies like Saw and Hostel. "It's just torture and murder. No plot, no characters. Very, very realistic. I think it's what's next."

Ugly and twisted, but it was a good conversation regardless.

Good special effects, poignant for its time.

Sexy, scary, thoughtful. There is a jagged poetry at work, because the visuals and the subject matter will put you into convulsions or make you doubt your sanity.

The film that introduced me to David Cronenburg, and started my life obsession with these body-horror type films.

The best of the early Cronenberg, already realizing the power of media and the creepy shit that can be involved in producing/consuming it.

Experimental horror latched with a unparalleled script and add the visceral feeling to that and you have Videodrome. Rare cinematic experience. Cronenberg, why did I take time to see you.

Messed up beyond belief,A great film.

Stark-raving mad, but all the better for it. And then it just...ends, without really confronting any issue that it brings up.

Interesting investigation of the insidiousness of the televisual, with memorable sequences and a good performance by the lead. Perhaps another viewing would lead to a higher score.

Probably the single most disappointing movie I've ever seen. OH NO JAMES WOODS PULLED A BLOODY COCK GUN OUT OF HIS NEW STOMACH VAGINA, SO SHOCKING!! Some great characters ruined by a stock sci fi plot and Cronenberg's amateurish Troma-inspired-but-not-as-artful sexual gore.

the true William Burroughs adaptation - very similar to his ideas for mental disorder through drug's fault. Just change heroin with TV and you have the right picture.

The plot of this film isn’t actually that great. What I liked about it were the messages of condemnation of television. It was treated both as some god-like idol and a malevolent drug. It also seems to be quite prophetic, considering today’s entertainment. The other highlight was the great practical effects. So much more real and visceral than the CGI that permeates movies these days. I didn’t love it, but it has enough going for it to keep me interested throughout.

Cronenberg is the master of taking the two things everyone loves watching -- sex and violence -- and combining them in such a way that is utterly repulsive. He plays them off each other in nearly all of his films, but this is like his Masters Thesis. The film is a mindfuck like none other, but its nonsense packs purpose and a scornful (but curious) message about the heart of television and media. Iconic imagery. That many of its cynical prophecies have come true only makes it more timeless.

Up from 80. Man I love Cronenberg.

If you look past all the weirdness and mindfuckery it seems like Cronenberg is simply saying "TV is bad for you!" As far as I can tell that's basically how it is, and it's a bit of a letdown. Still, I quite like the film. I particularly liked how the guy put the gun in the videogina player, bringing together the phallic symbology, the technology as violence metaphor and the cyborgification theme, all at once. The mind boggles at the metaphorical potential.

It feels a bit dated, but after the 30-40 minute mark, it doesn't even matter because it turns into something disturbingly surreal thanks to the top-notch special effects (for its time). It's also surprisingly prophetic in regards to what audiences crave today in TV, movies, and the internet.