Videodrome (1983) Poster

(1983)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman moans as she enjoyed being pleasured by being whipped by a man, but whips a TV with the woman on the screen.
  • An abstract theme of this film is sexual torture.
  • A brief scene from a fake pornographic film is seen.
  • A man and a woman have sex. We see the man thrusting in the distance along. He pierces her ear while doing this.
  • A naked woman is beaten on a television, which we see briefly.
  • One of the characters takes a cigarette and puts it out on her breast.

Violence & Gore

  • A man slaps a woman, but realises he hallucinated.
  • A man holds a fleshy video cassette and puts it in Max's belly. He pulls out of his hand and is shown that the flesh has been removed from the arm, and later explodes into pieces. No gore.
  • A woman asks a man to whip her. He accepts. He whips a TV with the screen showing the woman being pleasured by the whipping.
  • A man has a slit in his abdominal region in which items are hidden and removed.
  • Two men are shot with lots of blood shown
  • A man has his hand "eaten" (very bloody).
  • Women are bound, beaten, and killed (though not very bloody).
  • A man is shot multiple times, then tumors form where the gunshot wounds are and they proceed to erupt out of his body (EXTREMELY bloody and graphic).
  • On a TV, a man's chest is shot and drips a lot of blood.
  • A woman is slapped two times but she doesn't seem hurt.

Profanity

  • About 6 or 7 uses of "fuck."
  • Occasional profanity including uses of "fuck" and "shit."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Several characters drink and smoke cigarettes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some scenes show a girl being tortured on video.
  • The themes of the film are horrific.
  • A man slaps a woman, but hallucinates, and didn't actually do it.
  • A man holds a video cassette and sees the bottom part moving and gasping.
  • Intense synthetic music occurs throughout.
  • The film centres on video cassettes with disturbing content.
  • A man watches a video of a professor getting strangled to death by a woman he knows.
  • A man sees his TV set move with breathing sounds. A man is seduced by a woman with a close-up shot of her lips. He gets sucked into the TV.
  • A man sees a hole in his torso. He puts his hand with a gun inside it, and sees a fleshy look of the gun merged with the hand.
  • An arm pops out of the TV covered in stretchy skin. It shoots Max.
  • An arm pops out of the TV covered in stretchy skin. It shoots Max, but remains alive as the bullet wounds quickly disappear.
  • All of the violent sequences are very bloody and sometimes gory.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A minor character is coerced by Max to give him the inside scoop on Videodrome. Max first tries to bribe her by stating, "we can take a shower together,", but after he realizes she's into the much younger male waiter working nearby, he implies he can get her a room with a male prostitute.

Violence & Gore

  • The protagonist shoots a man in a business room at close range, shooting him in the arm and chest while blood is shown spraying from both wounds; he then shoots him one final time off-screen. He walks up to a man and shoots him twice off-screen but blood is shown spraying from his chin and head, this is very realistic.
  • A woman is strangled to death with a whip, this is pretty disturbing to watch.
  • A man's hand is badly mangled and blood is shown pooling around his stump; he then explodes and is killed but no blood is seen.
  • A man is shot repeatedly in the stomach and then in the head, mild blood is shown. However, his body begins to contort and mutate as several fleshy objects emerge from the inside, crushing his skull, face, and torso inwards from the inside.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man puts a video cassette inside of Max's belly. After crawling around, he stuffs his hand inside his belly, and takes out a gun. The gun merges with his hand as wires plug into his skin. It is later seen in full form.
  • This movie centers around a cable mogul, who gets a "snuff" movie channel for his station. and it seems that the station seems to come to life and forces the man to go mentally insane....he imagines all sorts of things, with very graphic results. he ends up shooting himself at the end of the movie, which is onscreen

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