Director David Cronenberg’s first serious feature film has James Woods playing Max Renn, a sleazy small time TV channel owner, and Deborah Harry as the SM addicted woman he is attracted to. Renn is constantly looking for questionable content beyond the usual soft-core porn that will take his channel to a new viewership.
He is shown a clip ostensibly coming from Malaysia, and captured by Harlan, the operator of a clandestine satellite dish. The clip is called Videodrome, lacks a narrative and seems to mostly be sadomasochistic pornography. Along the search for this content he encounters Nikki Brand (Deborah Harry) and also Harry O’Blivion (Jack Creley), a man known only through his video statements. Nikki sees the Videodrome clip, goes off to audition for the show, and disappears while Renn tries to track down the makers of Videodrome after learning that they are a dangerous outfit run by Barry Convex (Leslie Carlson) who make “snuff” films.
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