Videodrome (1983)
I just recently watched David Cronenberg's film " Videodrome " again, and found that it still really holds up, and actually is a really fantastic film. I've been a Cronenber g fan for sometime. His films such as " The Brood ", " Rabid ", and " Scanners " are very horrific in a cerebral sort of way. I've always said that Cronenberg was the thinking man's horror director. The topics in his films were delicate subjects taken to extremes, and that's why I think h is films are so visceral. Even today the films he's made in the past still send a chill down my spine. Cronenberg knows how to get under our skin, and sometimes literally that happens in his films. But back to Videodrome , which was released in 1983. For me I was in my early years of college, and Cronenberg had a deep influence into what I wanted to do, and that was filmmaking . In 1981 when Cronenberg released his film " Scanners " I read an article in...