Long live the new flesh! 

Max Renn (James Woods) is a network executive who discovers a pirate broadcast of erotic torture called Videodrome that might be a real as it looks. On a talk show discussing the prevalence of graphic sex and violence on television, he meets sensual radio host Nicki Brand (Deborah Harry) who inspires sadomasochistic relations between them, and Max is suddenly entangled in a media cold war for the fate of humanity. 

Cronenberg’s 1983 film is one of his kinkiest, fetishizing analog video to truly spectacular effect. Video technology becomes glistening flesh with bulging veins, and Max grows a new vulva-like opening on his stomach, probes it with a gun, and uses it to ingest throbbing video cassettes. The film also has subtle shades of queerness as multiple men ask Max to “open up to me.”