Things That Came: It Might Be Science, But It Sure Ain't Fiction

'Videodrome' and 'They Live,' then and now

"...his explosively popular previous film, Scanners, but in 1983, Videodrome entered a box-office season crowded with The Big Chill,..."

July 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Surrogates

Bruce Willis is a cop in a future society where human beings live in isolation and interact through robots.

"...ridiculous and badly conceived flip side to David Cronenberg's Videodrome; it's a wonder the few actual "human" characters we..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Signal

The Signal is an audacious horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy.

"...extremes not explored since David Cronenberg's seminal, frighteningly prescient Videodrome in 1983. (It also bears a striking resemblance in..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Arrebato

Addicted to filmmaking in this newly restored Spanish horror

"...in transgression. Yet Arrebato presages Cronenberg's grand media horror, Videodrome, by three years, and begins with what has become..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

VHYes

Bizarro tribute to camcorder culture is silly and profound

"...show bit that mirrors the sequence in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome in which Deborah Harry, James Woods, and “Brian O’Blivion”..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

eXistenZ

An elaborate cat-and-mouse game between human reality and game reality from David Cronenberg.

"...logic and detail, eXistenZ is Cronenberg's first film since Videodrome (1983) that is wholly his invention and not an..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Infinity Pool

Body doubles take on a new, sick meaning in this next gen Cronenberg horror

"...the son of David Cronenberg (Crimes of the Future, Videodrome), whose own career of unforgettable body-horror imagery must be..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

King Car

Dystopian Brazilian sci-fi flick is Herbie meets Marx

"...by any number of cinematic touchstones (Christine, Logan’s Run, Videodrome, Back to the Future, etc.), can be utterly charming..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sound of Violence

Murderous melodies never hit the right note

"...of technology as seen in something like David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. While it aims for the sickening insights of Japanese..."

May 28, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Possessor Uncut

Identity melts in this psychotropic assassination brainblender

"...early-to-mid-career work in such genre-bending classics as Dead Ringers, Videodrome, and the The Fly with the trippy technophobics of..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Porno

Horror-sex-comedy never quite (ahem) rises to the occassion

"...Break, Graham Skipper's shameless love letter to David Cronenberg's Videodrome - but that has so much more heart, and..."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Antibirth

A party girl discovers she's pregnant

"...been penned by body horror master David Cronenberg circa Videodrome and then psychedelically art directed by the gang behind..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sex Addiction and the City

Steve McQueen on Shame's New York state of mind

"...– Deborah Harry as Nicki Brand, Videodrome, 1983..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Funny Games U.S.

Michael Haneke comes to the U.S. to remake his tortuous German film about psychological terrorism with Naomi Watts and Tim Roth.

"...to what Canadian filmmaker/provocateur David Cronenberg predicted with 1983's Videodrome (not to mention 1999's eXistenZ) and which Haneke echoed,..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

One Missed Call

This American horror remake of Takashi Miike's eponymous Japanese original is a dud.

"...lifelong mission to be the directorial equivalent of the Videodrome signal. Anyone who has ever (intentionally or otherwise) subjected..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A History of Violence

Cronenberg's new horror film implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what do we acquire from our environment?

"...lives in films such as Rabid, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, The Dead Zone, Dead Ringers, and many..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gozu

Watching the latest from the insanely prolific Takashi Miike is akin to having some very bad acid slipped in your drink.

"...the audience – had somehow stumbled into David Cronenberg’s Videodrome world, where the normal rules of physicality do not..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In My Skin

Disturbing French drama about a woman who cuts her own skin as a prelude to gnawing on her flesh.

"...tread similarly bloody board before, in films such as Videodrome and Shivers, and the latter’s rally cry – "Long..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Demonlover

French mind-warper has a puzzle-box narrative and a soundtrack by Sonic Youth.

"...another thing to savor about Assayas’ film.) Like Cronenberg’s Videodrome, a film that in hindsight appears to be an..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary

Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin films the Royal Winnepeg Ballet’s rendition of the Dracula story.

"...cyberpunks (and previous to that, splatterpunks) – films like Videodrome, Crash, and Naked Lunch were gooey, wet depictions of..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spider

"...and James Woods as the hallucinatory Max Renn (in Videodrome) is probably the only director brave or creative enough..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanners

Wanna see someone's head blow up and eyes pop out? Be certain of your answer before casting your gaze on Scanners, an early beaut from Toronto's king of visceral horror.

"...Toronto's king of the visceral horror tale, David Cronenberg (Videodrome, The Fly, Naked Lunch) tells another of his mind-tripping..."

Dec. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Yards

"...cut his teeth scoring for David Cronenberg's gelatinous thrillers Videodrome and The Fly, and although The Yards is about..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

8 MM

"...truthfully it looks like an edit-reel from David Cronenberg's Videodrome). Saddling himself with streetwise porn-store clerk Max (Phoenix) as..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked Lunch

Leave it to Cronenberg to tackle William S. Burroughs' notorious – and notoriously "unfilmable" – novel. Then add in a score by Ornette Coleman.

"...to be hatched. Enter Cronenberg, director of The Brood, Videodrome, The Fly, and Dead Ringers, a filmmaker whose fascination..."

Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Saw the TV Glow Is a Haunting Ode to Self-Actualization

Jane Schoenbrun probes the reflective nature of media

"...are also plenty of nods to genre standouts, including Videodrome and Twin Peaks. Mostly though, it’s a powerful depiction..."

Jan. 28, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Fantastic Fest Review: Kim’s Video

Fascinating story of the NYC movie mecca gets lost in other films

"...understandable to a point, by the time a misused Videodrome reference comes around, it feels like this stylistic choice..."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

SXSW Film Review: Sound of Violence

Music-driven thriller doesn’t quite hit all the right notes

"...of technology as seen in something like David Cronenberg’s Videodrome...."

March 22, 2021 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

AFF Review: The Blue Orchid

Danish fever dream mixes Cronenberg and Carruth

"...writer. His mid-period films like Crash and eXistenZ, even Videodrome and The Fly, are ultimately less about the loss..."

Oct. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Leigh Whannell Gets an Upgrade

Insidious creator gets techno, and talks the Blumhouse model

"...messy way. He's always done that so wonderfully, from Videodrome to eXistenz...."

May 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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