Originally released as a motion picture in 1983. Mono, wide screen 1.85:1. Essays by Carrie Rickey, Tim Lucas, and Gary Indiana included in container. Features: two audio commentaries: David Cronenberg and director of photography Mark Irwin, and actors James Woods and Deborah Harry; Camera (2000), a short film starring Videodrome's Les Carlson, written and directed by Cronenberg; Forging the new flesh, a new half-hour documentary featurette by filmmaker Michael Lennick about the creation of Videodrome's video and prosthetic makeup effects; Effects men, a new audio interview with special makeup effects creator Baker and video effects supervisor Lennick; bootleg video: the complete footage of Samurai dreams and seven minutes of transmissions from "Videodrome," presented in their original, unedited form with filmmaker commentary; Fear on film, a 26-minute roundtable discussion from 1982 between filmmakers Cronenberg, John Carpenter, John Landis, and Mick Garris; original theatrical trailers and promotional featurette; stills galleries featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production photos, special effects makeup tests, and publicity photos. James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky.
Summary:
A cable channel programmer stumbles into Videodrome, a project using television to control people.
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