Videodrome
Videodrome is a 1983 film from Canada and the USA, directed by David Cronenberg, running 89 minutes. reelscum files it under body horror.
- Year
- 1983 · 1980s films
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (13/100)
- Also known as
- Network of Blood · Zonekiller · David Cronenberg's Videodrome
Defined in the glossary: Body horror
Long live the new flesh. Cronenberg's prophecy about media, the body, and a chest that opens.
Cronenberg's hallucinatory masterpiece about a sleazy cable programmer who discovers a broadcast of real torture and murder, and finds the signal rewriting his own body and mind. James Woods grows a vaginal slot in his abdomen that plays cassettes. Reality dissolves. Debbie Harry co-stars.
It is a film about media, desire and the flesh that only gets more prescient, and Rick Baker's effects are extraordinary. Dense, disturbing and decades ahead of itself. The phrase long live the new flesh entered the language.
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