Videodrome

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  • Friday, Jul 11

  • Saturday, Jul 12

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Videodrome

Sci-fi and horror filmmaker David Cronenberg’s Videodrome is about the sinister Videodrome: a mysterious television show that seduces and controls its viewers into doing unspeakable things.

Featuring rock star Debbie Harry (in her first major film) as a kinky radio hostess, James Woods as a cable programmer looking for the ultimate in viewing thrills, and special make-up effects by Oscar winner Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London, Star Wars). Videodrome is a pulsating science fiction nightmare about a world where video can control and alter human life.

Unrated 4K restoration of the director’s cut.

"Its dense mysteries remain more tantalizing than distancing: No other director integrates the creepy with the cerebral quite like Cronenberg."
Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
"Videodrome has lost none of its power to disturb, none of its potency as a catalyst for meaningful introspection. It is more an indictment of our predictability, our inability to escape our innate inherited behaviors, than an act of real fortune telling, but that does nothing to diminish the extent to which the picture is shockingly evergreen. It remains the rare breed of sociological provocation that might change minds. It’s a looking glass. It’s a masterpiece."
Walter Chaw, RogerEbert.com

This film is part of the After Hours series.



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