Videodrome

Videodrome (1983) is David Cronenberg's cult body horror you can watch online on iFILM. James Woods plays a TV man whose hunt for edgier programming starts rotting his own flesh and mind.

Max Renn runs a sleazy cable channel and is always chasing something that will shock his viewers. By accident he picks up a pirate broadcast called Videodrome, where the torture and killing look terrifyingly real. Max sets out to trace the signal. The deeper he digs, the more the line between hallucination and waking life dissolves — tapes start reshaping his body, and the television set begins to breathe.

Debbie Harry of Blondie plays a radio host pulled into the nightmare. Rick Baker designed the effects, and images like the pulsing cassette and the slit in Max's stomach became genre landmarks. Cronenberg made a prophecy about the power of the screen long before the internet existed. Stream Videodrome (1983) online on iFILM.