The boundary-pushing auteur asks how far is too far in a smart and slimy film about sadomasochism and the potential dangers of technology
James Woods and Debbie Harry in Videodrome.Last modified on Sat 4 Feb 2023 07.28 GMTarly on in David Cronenberg’s masterpiece Videodrome, TV station programmer Max Renn brings radio host Nicki Brand back to his bachelor pad for the seduction that’s been coming since they exchanged some heated words about the decline of western culture on a roundtable talkshow.
Cronenberg’s nightmare was never that we’d be poisoned by filth, but that perversion itself could be perverted. Every freakazoid with a passion for splatter pictures and stag films knows they’re not real, their artifice key to their charm. The trouble starts when shadowy forces chip away at our precious human ability to tell the difference.
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