Videodrome 1983

Critics score:
78 / 100

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: Though Videodrome finally grows grotesque and a little confused, it begins very well and sustains its cleverness for a long while. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Chris Peachment, Time Out: 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. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: 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. Read more

Gary Arnold, Washington Post: Simultaneously stupefying and boring, Videodrome is too extreme a blunder to survive exposure to a justifiably disillusioned horror-movie public. Read more