Not one that gives you hallucinations or where the violence is real, but just featuring torture and murder, with no story? I wasn't around in 1983 so I don't know. If there ever was, boy, would that be depraved.
sharewho knows? back then, satellite dishes were used more because cable wasn't laid out everywhere yet. I recall shows like Al Goldstein's Midnight Blue was broadcast via satellite, and that was all weird humor, porn clips, S&M and other random adult imagery. maybe some random pirate broadcasts were picked up that way?
shareThe Jerry Springer Show, while it didn't contain actual murder or torture, did run on the same concept of r/l humiliation and trainwreck drama as entertaining spectacle. Even if some of the people involved may have been scripted actors.
You are a lunatic, Sir, and you're going to end up on the Russian front. I have a car waiting.
Surprised this hasn't been mentioned but VideoDrome is based on Mondo Video which were short films of people doing really *beep* up things, wierd stunts, fetish's ect that came from Japan.
They're hard to find unless the particular edition was deemed rated R instead of X. Also it was controversial because some of the stunts were so real.
Holy shít o.O
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Not my cup of tea at all!
What kind of stupid comparison with Videodrome is that? Videodrome is a smart, satiric and creepy movie. A Serbian Film has a similiar theme, and in addition, it's also mildly funny, beautifully shot and horrifying! But Guinea Pig? Why compare two movies that actually wants to tell interesting stories to a movie that's just pure torture porn?! That's weird.
shareWhat kind of stupid comparison with Videodrome is that? Videodrome is a smart, satiric and creepy movie. A Serbian Film has a similiar theme, and in addition, it's also mildly funny, beautifully shot and horrifying! But Guinea Pig? Why compare two movies that actually wants to tell interesting stories to a movie that's just pure torture porn?! That's weird.
Was there ever a show like Videodrome?
Not one that gives you hallucinations or where the violence is real, but just featuring torture and murder, with no story? I wasn't around in 1983 so I don't know. If there ever was, boy, would that be depraved.
When E! showed the OJ trial, host Kathleen Sullivan used to emit signals that caused violent hallucinations amongst people born between the months of March and June. They were Videodrome's first victims.
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Videodrome was already in existence in 1983. It is stronger in 2016.
Look at your news shows, look at your reality TV shows, and other "entertainment" including video games. These are specifically made to re-frame cultural events and spin it to the advantage of the elites. They can change past history just as they can craft history today.
When you can watch people being beheaded by ISIS or other terrorist attacks in real time on your regular news sites or on Youtube. THAT, my friend, is VIDEODROME.
And it is psychologically changing us through fear and anxiety so that makes us more receptive to the message as Marshall McLuhan states.
It has a philosophy. And that is what makes it dangerous.
It really does work on just about anybody. Anybody who watches it, Max. But why would anybody watch it? Why would anybody watch a scum show like Videodrome?
I heard Russians are making a show in Siberia which is similar to The Hunger Games, and involves rape and murder. It's called Game2 Winter. Don't know if it will actually go on air, but I'm just telling you what I read recently.
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