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[[File:147136_3.jpg|frame|Television can change your mind... Videodrome will change your body!]]
A [[David Cronenberg]] film - that alone should say a lot. A surreal movie, one of the poster children for [[Body Horror]]. Like all of Cronenberg's movies, it has a strong intellectual undercurrent. The film deals with Marshall McLuhan's philosophies and examines the relationship between television and its audience. Cronenberg was greatly influenced by McLuhan's theories.▼
▲{{quote| ''"Death to Videodrome! Long live the New Flesh!"''}}
More specifically, the film follows the CEO of a small
▲A [[David Cronenberg]] film. A surreal movie, one of the poster children for [[Body Horror]]. Like all of Cronenberg's movies, it has a strong intellectual undercurrent. The film deals with Marshall McLuhan's philosophies and examines the relationship between television and its audience. Cronenberg was greatly influenced by McLuhan's theories.
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▲More specifically, the film follows the CEO of a small cable station who stumble upon a broadcast signal that is broadcasting extremely violent and horrific things. He investigates. As you might expect from Cronenberg, [[It Got Worse|things get worse]]...
* [[Affectionate Parody]] / [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
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** CIVIC-TV 83 is a parody of CITY-TV 79, which was a [[Struggling Broadcaster|struggling UHF independent]] in its early days and occupied the worst spot on the dial (UHF 80-83 were never used by any North American originating station and were never assigned in Canada). CITY-TV only survived by being in the largest market (Toronto) transmitting from the highest possible location (the CN Tower).
** CRAM (AM radio station) is likely also a parody of one of the Toronto locals.
▲* [[Affectionate Parody]] / [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] - Brian O'Blivion is a parody of Marshall McLuhan, whose ideas are the central theme of the movie. He only exists in video tapes, parodying McLuhan's famous proclamation: "I refuse to appear on television, except on television."
* [[Body Horror]]
* [[Brown Note]]
* [[Deconstructor Fleet]]
* [[Double Entendre]]
▲* [[Deconstructor Fleet]] - For late '70s exploitation movies. Oddly enough, it is now [[Weird Al Effect|much better known]] than films like ''Mondo Cane'' or the first ''Faces Of Death''.
* [[Exploitation Film]]
* [[Fantastic Aesop]]
* [[Gorn]]
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]]
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[Moral Guardians]]
* [[New Media Are Evil]]
* [[Non-Actor Vehicle]]
* [[Organic Technology]]
* [[Punny Name]]
* [[Science Is Bad]] / [[New Media Are Evil]]
* [[Shout-Out]]
** Also, a shout-out to the early CITY-TV 79 as a struggling independent which was once notorious for broadcasting fairly explicit content after [[watershed]].
* [[Show Within a Show]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Spiritual Sequel]]
* [[Struggling Broadcaster]]: Many of the early big-city UHF independents were this. With only three main commercial terrestrial networks at the time, there typically wasn't enough viable content for every station in the largest markets. This left the weakest stations cash-poor and content-starved. The further up the dial, the worse things got as a high-UHF channel invariably had more limited coverage despite massive increases in power. Ultimately, there were only a half-dozen North American stations to ever originate content on UHF 70-83; these channels were removed to make way for analogue cellular mobile telephones in the early 1980s.
* [[Snuff Film]]
* [[Surreal Horror]]
* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]
* [[The Television Talks Back]]: Nicki disappears when going to check out Videodrome, then appears to Max in his TV, and asks for a kiss. He does...and then things start to get really bizarre. Brian O'Blivion also starts to directly converse with Max in this way later on.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]/[[Unreliable
* [[Vagina Dentata]]
▲* [[Vagina Dentata]] - Just about the only trope played straight. Except that it's on a man. In his abdomen.
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