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Podcast: Slashers
Episode: Videodrome (1983)
Description: How do we alienate our dwindling audience? Review a cult classic that makes everyone super uncomfortable and is never searched by more than 100 people a day on Google.Â
Kicking off March Madness, a month full of movies where people devolve into psychosis, we review Videodrome: the 1983 flop by David Cronenberg (The Fly, Dead Ringers, Scanners).Â
The film stars James Woods (Vampires, Hercules, The Virgin Suicides) as Max, a desensitized head of a TV channel, desperately seeking the next big sensation. He stumbles onto what he thinks is a pirated signal from Malaysia, where someone is be...