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Videodrome
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1925
- IMDb #1965
- Rotten Tomatoes #1479
- Metacritic #2256
- Letterboxd #882
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1781
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1656
- Metacritic Audience #1561
- Criticker #552
- Douban #1275
- Kinopoisk #2702
- AlloCiné #2092
- Trakt #2382
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 83.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The president of a small television station, specializing in adult entertainment, stumbles upon a signal broadcasting extreme acts of torture. Obsessed with finding its source, he discovers the broadcast is more than just a show; it induces hallucinations and a psychological transformation. He is drawn into a sinister conspiracy where the boundaries between reality, television, and his own body begin to horrifically break down.
Details
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Writer
- David Cronenberg
- Studio
- Filmplan International
- Released
- 4 February 1983
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English, Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $2.1M
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Cast
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Awards
3 wins & 7 nominations total
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