Anyone at all? Please?
I saw it years and years ago -- early 80s. Mostly because Debbie Harry was in it.
I may have to get the dvd.
Yes. I used to have a VHS copy of the unrated version. Actually, I might still have it in a box somewhere.
Here are some scenes not included in any released version. Personally, I don't know how this guy found 'em-maybe from a workprint?
http://www.blue-bottle.co.uk/unseen.htm
I vaguely remember this film. Wasn't it some kind of borderline porno graphic Horror/Sci-Fi film? I just remember some woman in a red dress trying to seduce the main character through a T.V. screen. I think there was also a scene where the Television morphs a gun and shoots someone? Let me know whether or not this was the film. Now I'm curious...
you're kidding right? i can't even count the amount of times i've seen Videodrome.
I have never seen it but I do know of it.
Isn't it directed by Cronenberg and stars James Woods?
"Isn't it directed by Cronenberg and stars James Woods?"
Yes, i've seen the rated version but never saw the unrated verion :(
Such a wierd movie, kinda like watching a car wreck - you can't take your eyes away! Main things I remember were the tape being inserted into the stomach, and the burning of the breast with the cigarette.
Long live the new flesh!
*BANG*
I've seen it. I'm a huge Cronenberg fan. It seems now that what Cronenberg was talking about then can be applied to the current internet culture. Although, I do think that the underground element of society will always be there. Just back then it was pirate television.
Remember the bit where the television guru guy proclaims that in the future everyone will have new names for their television personas. Anybody else here not post under their real name?
If you like this I highly recommend checking out some other Cronenberg. I would say that he is underappreciated, but really, it's not very many people who would be attracted actually watching a Cronenberg movie. Guy's got a creepy mind.
Also, he was in THE STUPIDS.
Mofo Rising wrote:
> Remember the bit where the television guru guy proclaims that
> in the future everyone will have new names for their television
> personas. Anybody else here not post under their real name?
There's a creepy thought.
Mofo Rising wrote:
> If you like this I highly recommend checking out some other
> Cronenberg. I would say that he is underappreciated, but
> really, it's not very many people who would be attracted
> actually watching a Cronenberg movie. Guy's got a creepy mind.
Thanks, with a recommendation like that I'll have to check him out. Nothing wrong with a creepy mind.
No, sorry... I wish I were. I remember it showing on Cinimax alot as a kid but I always fell asleep. : (
Ohhhh yeah... some of my favs have creepy minds. Stephen King, John Carpenter, Savini, Romero.. to name a few.
>I vaguely remember this film. Wasn't it some kind of borderline porno graphic
It wasn't borderline porno, although the story was about a guy who dealt with porn.
>Horror/Sci-Fi film? I just remember some woman in a red dress trying to seduce
>the main character through a T.V. screen. I think there was also a scene where
>the Television morphs a gun and shoots someone? Let me know whether or not
>this was the film. Now I'm curious...
You've got the right film, but some of the details are wrong. The woman on the TV was in there, but it was James Woods's hand that morphed into a gun. He did stick his head in the TV though.
>Remember the bit where the television guru guy proclaims that in the future
>everyone will have new names for their television personas. Anybody else here
>not post under their real name?
Here's something else to think about; Remember when the guy asks Woods what kind of a person would watch a show like Videodrome? There are now web sites which put on live S&M shows for their paying members, that make the scenes in the film look tame. Of course nobody is kidnapped and forced to participate in them, but the end result is pretty much the same.
"it's not very many people who would be attracted actually watching a Cronenberg movie. Guy's got a creepy mind."
very true. i doubt he got laid in in his early twenties, but do any smart people do?
had to study videodrome and the fly for my cinema studies subject this semester. both are fantastic, sometimes gruesome films, as per usual with cronenberg. definitely reccomended. i so need to see crash, it sounds very disturbing [right up my alley] and anything about a woman who grows a penis on her arm and infects them is got to be funny [rabid?]
i've also got videodrome on dvd, but it's really dissapointing because i wanted special features and my copy only has the trailer. still, a good buy.
Have you seen Shivers or the Brood yet?
I thought CRASH was a crashing bore...heh heh.
Love THE BROOD, but haven't seen SHIVERS in years. I haven't seen M. BUTTERFLY or the new one. EXISTENZ seemed more like a remake of VIDEODROME.
I haven't kept up with Cronenberg in recent years. I like his earlier stuff like SHIVERS, THE BROOD and RABID. THE FLY was good, but a bit too "Hollywoodized." VIDEODROME has its good and bad points, as does SCANNERS. I haven't seen any of his newer films. Has anyone seen THE SPIDER? I almost bought it the other day.
i haven't seen brood or shiver but have heard alot about both. the brood sounds especially interesting. existenz does seem very similar to videodrome, but is still a fairly different film. it was ok, but not fantastic. i really like the 'eating the special' scene though. very disgusting.
i thought you HAD to see VIDEODROME in order to visit this website???
>> thought you HAD to see VIDEODROME in order to visit this website???
<<
Wouldn't make sense considering neither andrew nor a visitor has even reviewed it. :)
Susan wrote:
> >> thought you HAD to see VIDEODROME in order to visit this
> website???
> <<
>
> Wouldn't make sense considering neither andrew nor a visitor
> has even reviewed it. :)
>
yeah yeah, but its CRONENBERG, not really obscure by any means.