Review – Videodrome

This film treads the fine lines between kinky sex and abusive violence, reality and television, entertainment and annoyance. The premise – a sinister conspiracy has developed a permutation of the television signal that causes hallucinations, brain tumors and other undesirable effects – is sort of intriguing. And the effects, though very latex-intensive, are worthy of director David Cronenberg’s sense of the perverse. But somehow the various elements just never quite seem to come together (though not for want of trying; I’ve seen at least two different versions of this movie, and they’re both about equally nonsensical, though in different ways). Mildly amusing