Posted on 06/16/2021 6:50:17 PM PDT by simpson96
Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring violence and torture. The layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he uncovers the signal's source, and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre hallucinations.
Distributed by Universal Pictures, Videodrome was the first film by Cronenberg to gain backing from any major Hollywood studio.
James Woods and Deborah Harry - scene from "Videodrome" (1983)
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What a great little flick.
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“The Brood” by Cronenberg is really something.
Cronenberg had a great run of films.
I remember this one.
He was going through a divorce when he wrote it.
Gee, you can hardly tell ...
Her red dress looks like the film director kept asking for that slit on the side to be sewn higher, as to show more of Debbie’s smooth thighs. “Higher....No, even Higher!”
Finally, the tailor stepped up to Debbie, said “Sorry’bout this, Ms Harry”. He then loudly ripped the side of the dress WAY up, almost to the waist. So, he asks the director,”Happy now?”
“Yes! That’s it!” was the answer.//
Another one is “Mr. Frost” with Jeff Goldblum. How many have seen that one?
Haven’t seen it but that looks like a movie right down my alley. Did meet Debbie Harry at a CES show and she was very nice and chatted a bit while she was on a break from signing giveaway LPs.
Professor Brian O’Blivion would be right at home today.
Yep
James Woods was great in The Onion Field
bkmk
This film was remarkably prescient about how technology was, could and would be used by powerful interests to control us all; and how we allow ourselves to become cyborb sheeps, one with our devices, and ripe for easy control by Big Tech.
Deborah Harry really blossomed into middle-age. Her role as the witch in “Tales From The Dark Side”. I was just awe-struck by her beauty. When she started out, she was sort of a waif, thin (not that it’s BAD) But, then I saw her in that movie, she’d put on a few pounds. The Lord knows that I was smitten with her. There is NOTHING on this planet anywhere near being quite like a beautiful woman.
"...that make the cathode ray tube computer screen resonate."
Regards,
I remember the scene where she burns herself with a cigarette.
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