Videodrome

David Cronenberg's fascinating rumination on humanity, technology, entertainment and sex. James Woods, in one of the best performances of his career, stars as Max Renn, an ambitious cable television programmer who, looking for something new and sensational for his cable station, stumbles across a show called Videodrome which seems to depict the actual torture and murder of a different victim every night. Fascinated and excited by the programme, Renn tries to find out where the show originates, and becomes deeply embroiled in a bizarre, intriguing, and sometimes incomprehensible fusion of television, politics, and mind-control.