Videodrome

David Cronenberg\'s body-horror masterpiece anticipated the merger of media and physiology — VHS, video-on-demand, brain-rewiring social media — through the metaphor of a TV signal that grows into your body. Forty years later it still feels like a forecast.

• Cronenberg started writing it as a Marshall McLuhan reaction.
• James Woods learned that the gun-belly scene used a real working prosthetic.
• Featured technology two decades ahead of its actual availability.
• Andy Warhol called it the "Clockwork Orange of the 1980s".
• Originally rated X before re-edited for R release.

• "Long live the new flesh."
• "Television is reality, and reality is less than television."
• "The Videodrome will make you a new man."
• "Death to Videodrome."
• "You have to learn to live in the new flesh."