Videodrome [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Universal ; a Filmplan International production ; Pierre David and Victor Solnicki present a David Cronenberg film ; produced by Claude H�eroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg.
Format:
[videorecording (Blu-ray)] /
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm.)
James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, Reiner Schwartz. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983. Special features: two audio commentaries, one with David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin, and one with Deborah Harry and James Woods; a short film, Camera, written and directed by Cronenberg; Forging the new flesh, a documentary featurette by Michael Lennick about the creation of Videodrome's video and makeup effects; Effest men, an audio interview with makeup creator Baker and video effects supervisor Lennick; Bootleg video: the complete footage of Samurai dreams and seven minutes of transmissions from Videodrome in original, unedited form with commentaries; Fear on film, a 26-minute roundtable discussion from 1982 with filmmaker Cronenberg and others; original theatrical trailers and promotional featurette; still galleries featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production photos, special effects makeup tests, and publicity photos.
Summary:
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
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