fright night
Videodrome 4K + Intro from Emily Booth
Max Renn seeks edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station and finds a hyper-violent torture show of mysterious origin. Videodrome is Cronenberg at his original and provocative best.
Director: David cronenberg
Cast includes: james woods, deborah harry, sonja smits
INTROduction from emily booth
87 mins / 1983 / canada / english
Fright Night hosts Emily Booth (ex-Horror Channel) and Kim Taylor-Foster present Videodrome, with introduction from Emily Booth.
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyper-violent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry in one of her first film roles, Videodrome is one of writer/director David Cronenberg's most original and provocative works. With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award®-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and mind-bending science fiction films of the 1980s, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence.
About your Fright Night host, Kim Taylor-Foster
Kim Taylor-Foster is a film and TV critic, journalist, broadcaster, and author. Her books include 'Why We Love The Matrix' and 'Why We Love Die Hard'.
Introduction by Emily Booth
Emily Booth is “one of the iconic women of horror”- an actress, presenter and all-round cult-movie buff who has presented shows on Channel 4, Channel 5, Bravo, and Dave, including her own cult film show Shock Movie Massacre.
Emily was the face and voice of the Horror Channel for 15 years, and has presented at many horror festivals. She has also interviewed Dario Argento, Tinto Brass and Lloyd Kauffman as part of her presenting roles.
As an actress Emily has starred in several horror films including Cradle of Fear (2001), Evil Aliens (2005), Doghouse (2009 with Danny Dyer and Stephen Graham), Shed of The Dead (2019) and They’re Outside (2020). She also wrote, produced and starred in her own short film SELKIE which premiered at Frightfest in 2014.
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