Film: Videodrome

[Petersko]

I had always been aware that there was a movie called Videodrome, but for some reason I never saw it, despite always being on the lookout for quality horror.

Saturday night, with nothing better to do, I came out of my drug retirement in order to try something new to me - 2ci, 20mg.

So while my trip is in full swing, what movie should start?

Videodrome.

The combination of intense filmmaking plus this trippy chemical was quite the experience.

The movie had visuals that, while 20 years old, are stunning. The scene where he hallucinates putting his gun into his chest - and then is unable to locate the gun - was amazing.

Watching the main character hallucinate with his television on MY television was trippy.

I loved this movie. I'm gonna buy it tonight. It's just the kind of weird film that has always appealed to me.

 

[Dr. Funkenstien]

thanks for passing that on. I'm gonna have to check it out now

 

[Tech Kinetics]

This film is nearly impossible to find at video stores these days.
But if you liked this film, you definitely gotta check out Altered States !
I know for sure that will trip you out %)

 

[Belisarius]

Altered States is an underrated sci-fi classic. I've never seen it tripping, but I honestly think it's too linear to be a great movie for that--there are really only three or four major trip sequences in the film.

Nevertheless, highly recommended.

 

[indelibleface]

I just saw this film.

Pretty revolutionary special effects for 1982. James Woods is perfect, absolutely perfect for this role. And, I mean, David Cronenberg is easily one of my favorite directors, and this is definitely one of his best movies. I love how open ended the ending is -- was it all real, or was he merely insane? Who knows? :D

 

[Psychedelic Gleam]

This film is nearly impossible to find at video stores these days.
But if you liked this film, you definitely gotta check out Altered States !
I know for sure that will trip you out %)

Impossible to find at video stores? maybe blockbuster.

Altered States doesn't have shit on this film, a true masterpiece of horror and one of Cronenbergs best films by far.

His directing abilities are absolutely stunning, his world is realistic and yet dreamlike and surreal, a bizarre place to inhabit for sure.

 

[KillaSeason]

This movie is a trip on its own.

 

[RorerQuaalude714]

James Woods undoubtedly makes this film a gem. That and the social commentary. This film quite beautifully depicts a somewhat schizophrenic dialetic of cinema and technology. What I mean is that the film critiques new technologies while simultaneously embracing them through using digital special effects.

 

[alasdairm]

rate this movie

alasdair

 

[ego_loss]

James Woods undoubtedly makes this film a gem. That and the social commentary. This film quite beautifully depicts a somewhat schizophrenic dialetic of cinema and technology. What I mean is that the film critiques new technologies while simultaneously embracing them through using digital special effects.

I wouldn't say the movie "embraced" digital effects. Besides, a great deal of the effects in the movie were not digital at all, but done with real make-up, props and other traditional methods.

It's important, especially in the case of Cronenberg, not to get the message and the medium confused. Just because a character in a movie is anti-television, it doesn't mean the movie its' self carries the same message... even in a dialectic sense. If anything, I would say its more ironic.

 

[PureLife]

Whats it about?

 

[ego_loss]

^^
television

 

[singularity]

Cronenberg definately had some sort of peak with this film. It hits all the right notes and like Nightmare on Elm Street, you can never really tell when he's hallucinating and it keeps you off balance.

Like The Fly might have been better because there was this human component to it so there was more at stake emotionally with Seth but I think this is the best he has done in terms of covering all the Cronenbergian themes in one complete film.

 

[justsomeguy]

i just caught it randomly on free OnDemand. had never heard of it but glad i watched it.