Videodrome is the Weirdest and Most Disturbing Body Horror Masterpiece
Have you ever wanted to watch forbidden footage that caught your curiosity? Did you instantly regret watching the footage once you did? Did you feel uncomfortable, wondering what the hell just happened?
That is the premise to Videodrome.
The film was directed by the iconic David Cronenberg, and he once again tackles the brutal concept of body horror.
The story follows a man named Max Renn who works in the movie industry. He appears to be very selective of which projects to take on, until he comes across mysterious footage known as Videodrome.
He becomes intrigued, and decides to watch the tape for himself.
Max falls into an endless nightmare of body horror, that leads to the biggest question if everything he is experiencing is even real!
And the body horror…it’s something else.
It’s so messed up…and I still don’t how to feel about what I just watched.
Every scene of body horror sequences feels so uncomfortable to watch.
Every single body horror moment is so disturbing. I don’t want to go into explicit detail, but let’s just say that this film takes the body horror a step too far. I never thought in a million years I would get scared of a television screen.
Yes, there is a scene where the TV comes to life in Max’s apartment, showing the lips of his girlfriend.
What does he do?
He…uh…I’m not sure how to describe it here.
I got so creeped out, and I wasn’t sure how to react.
It didn’t help that the VHS he puts in the TV literally starts to breathe.
I’m not exaggerating. This actually happened, and I jumped. The last time I got jump scared was when I was watching The Thing scene with the iconic stomach opening up and biting off the dude’s arms.
That’s another great film with excellent body horror.
The body horror in this film uses Max’s body as a killing machine.
I think this is the first time where a person’s body is used as an actual weapon in a body horror film. Like wow, Max is so freaking useful. His abilities are endless, because his body is now like an actual TV set.
After coming to the conclusion that his girlfriend was most likely killed by these people who are after Max, he is then given a horrible outcome. He becomes a sort of test subject for Videodrome, his body being subjected to extreme body horror. It's like his stomach becomes a VHS insert for a television, and an actual VHS gets inserted into his body by these people.
He becomes an assassin for them, being ordered to murder anyone who was associated with sex and violence, under the influence of Videodrome. He is stopped by a woman named Bianca, who convinces him to go after the people who killed his girlfriend instead.
One of the coolest and uh…disturbing scenes that really bothered me was when Max goes after a guy named Harlan who was one of the people who betrayed him by showing him the tape to Videodrome to use Max as a test subject.
Max lets Harlan insert a fleshy looking VHS tape into his stomach where the opening of a VHS is waiting (how do you describe something so bizarre?) and he latches onto Harlan’s hand.
When Harlan eventually gets his flesh free, instead of his own hand, it’s a bomb. Harlan freaks out from the pain, and then blows up. Max leaves the crime scene in a calm manner, walking away like a total badass.
Despite scaring the crap out of a lot of people, but yeah, this part was cool.
Then one of the craziest scenes was when he goes after the main villain behind the creation of Videodrome.
He kills the guy by shooting him with flesh bullets…and the bullets turns into actual flesh inside of the dude, splitting his body up, as he is still alive.
This part was great too, but damn…that is torturous. The guy did have it coming though.
Max is now on the run, and he hides out in an abandoned area with a television set. His girlfriend appears on the screen, and she explains to him what he must do. The screen shows Max pointing the fleshy gun at his head, ending his own life. The screen suddenly explodes, mimicking a gunshot going off.
Max falls to his knees, points the fleshy gun at his head, and says:
"Long live the new flesh."
He ends his life offscreen, and the film ends.
That is one of the best endings to a body horror film...and damn, I still question what the hell I just watched.
I just really wanted to describe the body horror in this film, because David Cronenberg gave us another masterpiece that none of us will never forget.
To be honest, I don’t think I could ever forget the body horror in this film even if I wanted to. I’m sort of traumatized but I was impressed at the same time if that makes any sense!
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