Simultaneously stupefying and boring, Videodrome is too extreme a blunder to survive exposure to a justifiably disillusioned horror-movie public.

| Aug 4, 2015

Film is dotted with video jargon and ideology which proves more fascinating than distancing. And Cronenberg amplifies the freaky situation with a series of stunning visual effects.

| Jun 6, 2007

Never coherent and frequently pretentious, the film remains an audacious attempt to place obsessive personal images before a popular audience -- a kind of Kenneth Anger version of Star Wars.

| Jun 6, 2007

There are distinct signs of strain in the plot convolutions, not least in the spectator's loss of faith over indiscriminate and cheating use of hallucination; what certainly survives is Cronenberg's wholesale disgust with the world in general.

| Jan 26, 2006

Though Videodrome finally grows grotesque and a little confused, it begins very well and sustains its cleverness for a long while.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2004

On a line starting with quality and ending with incompetence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001