Director
David Cronenberg
Starring
James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits
Certificate
18
Run Time
87 mins
Release Year
1983
Country of Origin
Canada
Language
English
Format
35mm
Director of Photography: Mark Irwin
Editor: Ronald Sanders
Produced by: Claude Héroux
Music: Howard Shore
Screenplay by: David Cronenberg
Production Designer: Carol Spier
Director Bio
David Cronenberg
P&I - Director Bio
David Cronenberg (b. 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and author. He is known for his horror genre. His films have won numerous awards, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Crash (1996).
Videodrome
Part of the Retrospective: The Future Is History Strand
James Woods stars as the television executive for whom fantasy and reality start to merge, as he and his girlfriend, played by Deborah Harry, (of legendary pop group Blondie), are slowly drawn into the nightmarish world of Videodrome, a mysterious illegal broadcast of 'snuff' pornography. Still regarded as one of his finest works, David Cronenberg’s mind-bending sci-fi thriller, featuring unforgettable body horror work by special-effects guru Rick Baker, is as provocative and disturbing today as it was thirty four years ago.
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