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In David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, amoral TV station president Max Renn, on a constant quest to find boundary-pushing new content, is exposed to hyper-violent imagery via an illicit broadcast channel. Instantly enamored, he becomes obsessed with finding its source. As he watches more and delves deeper into the underground world that controls the footage, his sense of reality begins to warp and disturbing hallucinations manifest in the flesh. Is Renn losing his mind or experiencing the next step in human and technological coevolution? Cronenberg’s graphic body-horror is on full display as he explores the melding of technology and human biology.

Special thanks to Telefilm Canada for program support.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 

1983 | 89 min | USA | Color | English | Not rated | 4K DCP

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: David Cronenberg

WITH: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky