Videodrome
David Cronenberg’s film Videodrome is considered his most important work. In an age that television has reverted to pornography to stimulate a desensitize audience, Max Renn, president of CIVIC-TV, comes across a snuff film. Staged or real, he has no idea, but he wants it. On his eternal quest to find the next big seller, Max finds himself lost on a beautifully surreal journey that mixes hallucination and cognitive action, reality and fantasy. Videodrome addresses the notion that technology has altered our perception of fantasy and reality. Cronenberg breaths life into everything, it is the living, breathing, threatening quality of technology in this film that makes it an excellent horror.
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