カナダのトロントにある地方TV局の社長が、奇妙なビデオテープを発見した。暴力と官能に溢れた映像に、彼とその恋人は次第に虜となっていく。やがてテープに秘められた恐るべき陥穽が明らかになる……。
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製作費: $5,952,000 (9億円)
興行収入: $2,120,439 (3億円)
推定収支: $-3,831,561 (-6億円)
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監督: デヴィッド・クローネンバーグ
脚本: デヴィッド・クローネンバーグ
音楽: Howard Shore
制作: Pierre David / Victor Solnicki / Claude Héroux
撮影監督: Mark Irwin
制作会社: Filmplan International
"Max" (James Woods) runs a television channel that specialises in adult content. Always on the look out for new and more innovative and shocking content, he stumbles upon a brief series of satellite images that tantalise him. It's on a television talk show that he meets "Nicki" (Debbie Harry) who has a penchant for sex with a twist - and that not only turns them both on, but furthers his desire to obtain his newly found (and pretty violent) content for his Channel 83 output. The other guest on that show is the renowned "Prof. Oblivion" (Jack Creley) who prognosticates that one day the reality of television and video will replace the "real" reality. These threads slowly all tie together when "Nicki" decides that she is going to star in this new "Videodrome" enterprise and "Renn" must now reconcile his concern for her safety with his mounting need to acquire the show. This film is surreal and bizarre and yet it's still quite effective at illustrating the most visceral aspects of human nature - sex, venality, lust - even pain; and the visual effects (particularly towards the last fifteen minutes) must have been particularly effective. It's a bit on the sordid side - not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but at times the seaminess of it all is distracting from the more interesting and provocative aspects of the narrative. Time hasn't been very kind to it either, the effects have lost much of their potency now and the acting is mediocre at best. It is well worth a watch, but I'm not sure that will be the case for very much longer.
