Videodrome (1983)
The film explores many of director David Cronenberg's career themes and obsessions such as technology fusing (is that the right word?) with the human body and the links between sex and violence. It features one of James Woods most unscrupulous performances - he's a cable channel programmer who gets drawn in completely over his head to a dark S&M channel called Videodrome - and, who along with the equally depraved Deborah Harry and some risque imagery make Videodrome an unsettling viewing experience.
Even though Videodrome probably has logic gaps throughout it's still a deeply complex, disturbing and intense watch all these years later. Oh and Rick Baker's make up FX are still awesome.
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