1 00:00:55,974 --> 00:00:57,892 Civic TV... 2 00:00:57,976 --> 00:01:00,061 the one you take to bed with you. 3 00:01:00,145 --> 00:01:03,940 Max, it's that time again: 4 00:01:04,023 --> 00:01:09,612 time to slowly, painfully ease yourself back into consciousness. 5 00:01:09,696 --> 00:01:11,740 No, I'm not a dream... 6 00:01:11,823 --> 00:01:14,200 although I've been told I'm a vision of loveliness. 7 00:01:14,284 --> 00:01:16,244 Who told you that? 8 00:01:16,327 --> 00:01:20,081 I'm nothing less than your faithful Girl Friday, Bridey James... 9 00:01:20,165 --> 00:01:24,669 here with your wake-up call of today, which is Wednesday the 23rd. 10 00:01:24,753 --> 00:01:26,671 You got that? 11 00:01:26,755 --> 00:01:29,966 Wednesday the 23rd. 12 00:01:31,092 --> 00:01:32,969 And I have a message. 13 00:01:33,052 --> 00:01:35,764 Remember your meeting this morning at 6:30... 14 00:01:35,847 --> 00:01:39,142 with Shinji Kuraki of Hiroshima Video. 15 00:01:39,225 --> 00:01:40,935 This meeting is to take place... 16 00:01:41,019 --> 00:01:45,148 at the Classic Hotel, suite 17. 17 00:01:45,231 --> 00:01:48,401 And needless to say, it's your first of the day. 18 00:01:48,485 --> 00:01:51,279 Don't you know anyone who works 9:00 to 5:00? 19 00:01:52,989 --> 00:01:54,741 Over and out, Commander. 20 00:01:56,534 --> 00:02:00,038 Civic TV, the one you take to bed with you. 21 00:03:18,449 --> 00:03:21,703 - Cindy, open the door, will ya? - Go away. 22 00:03:21,786 --> 00:03:23,705 Come on. You know I love ya. 23 00:03:23,788 --> 00:03:26,040 - Get outta here! - Will you open the door? 24 00:03:26,124 --> 00:03:28,042 For fuck's sake, open the door! 25 00:03:28,126 --> 00:03:32,380 I want you out of this place! 26 00:03:32,463 --> 00:03:36,050 For fuck's sake, open the door! 27 00:03:38,845 --> 00:03:41,389 You just gotta open the fucking door! 28 00:03:41,472 --> 00:03:44,559 Well, I looked over the stills. 29 00:03:44,642 --> 00:03:46,561 I am interested a little bit. 30 00:03:46,644 --> 00:03:48,605 - How many shows you got? - Thirteen. 31 00:03:48,688 --> 00:03:51,900 With a possibility of another six if the sales go well. 32 00:03:51,983 --> 00:03:53,902 - You got cassettes? - Of course. 33 00:04:02,952 --> 00:04:05,955 No, hold it. Uh, show me the last one. 34 00:04:06,039 --> 00:04:08,249 Number 13. 35 00:04:08,333 --> 00:04:11,961 But you won't understand anything. Everything is set up in the first two. 36 00:04:12,045 --> 00:04:15,590 My audience ain't gonna see the first two shows. Show me the last one. 37 00:05:17,235 --> 00:05:19,654 What do you think? 38 00:05:19,737 --> 00:05:24,158 Can we get away with it? Do we wanna get away with it? 39 00:05:24,242 --> 00:05:26,786 I think Oriental sex is a natural. 40 00:05:26,869 --> 00:05:29,872 I think it'll get us an audience we've never had before. 41 00:05:30,999 --> 00:05:34,043 I don't like it. It's not tacky enough. 42 00:05:34,127 --> 00:05:37,380 - Not tacky enough for what? - Tacky enough to turn me on. 43 00:05:38,381 --> 00:05:40,299 Too much class. Bad for sex. 44 00:05:41,551 --> 00:05:43,678 Maybe. 45 00:05:43,761 --> 00:05:46,347 I don't know. 46 00:05:46,431 --> 00:05:48,349 It's soft. 47 00:05:48,433 --> 00:05:50,685 Something too... 48 00:05:50,768 --> 00:05:52,895 soft about it. 49 00:05:54,897 --> 00:05:58,651 I'm lookin' for something that'll break through, you know? Something... 50 00:05:58,735 --> 00:06:01,070 tough. 51 00:06:47,867 --> 00:06:50,411 Hey, Harlan, uh — Huh? 52 00:06:50,495 --> 00:06:53,206 Oh. Okay. 53 00:06:53,289 --> 00:06:55,416 Here we go. 54 00:06:57,502 --> 00:07:00,588 Now, it'll come through on that. 55 00:07:00,671 --> 00:07:05,134 Now, we only got about 53 seconds, so keep your eyes open. 56 00:07:05,218 --> 00:07:10,139 They've got an unscrambler scrambler, if you know what I mean. 57 00:07:10,223 --> 00:07:12,058 It sensed that we were unscrambling... 58 00:07:12,141 --> 00:07:16,270 and, uh, automatically changed its code on us. 59 00:07:16,354 --> 00:07:18,272 What satellite is it coming from? 60 00:07:18,356 --> 00:07:20,274 - Snooker, I think. - Country of origin? 61 00:07:20,358 --> 00:07:22,276 Uh, let me see. Uh — 62 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,947 Assuming 53 seconds represents the period of delay... 63 00:07:26,030 --> 00:07:28,783 I'd say somewhere, uh... 64 00:07:28,866 --> 00:07:30,910 in Malaysia? 65 00:07:31,994 --> 00:07:35,456 Okay, here we go. 66 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:37,500 This is it. 67 00:07:51,347 --> 00:07:54,934 What is that wall behind her? What is that, clay? 68 00:07:55,017 --> 00:07:57,520 Yeah. Wet clay. 69 00:07:57,603 --> 00:07:59,564 I think it's electrified. 70 00:08:24,589 --> 00:08:26,632 That's it? 71 00:08:26,716 --> 00:08:29,010 That's it. 72 00:08:29,093 --> 00:08:32,388 Grotesque, as promised. 73 00:08:32,471 --> 00:08:34,849 Okay. Can you hang a search on it next time it — 74 00:08:34,932 --> 00:08:37,185 Already workin' on it. 75 00:08:37,268 --> 00:08:40,688 I was pretty insulted when it just shrugged us off in less than a minute. 76 00:08:40,771 --> 00:08:44,108 Well, patrón, interested? 77 00:08:45,443 --> 00:08:48,779 Yeah. Harlan, can you do something about these labels? 78 00:08:48,863 --> 00:08:53,826 I mean, uh, this is supposed to be a clandestine operation, you know? 79 00:08:53,910 --> 00:08:55,870 Sí, patrón. 80 00:09:05,254 --> 00:09:07,632 You always find yourself getting nervous... 81 00:09:07,715 --> 00:09:10,384 even if you've been doing it all your life, don't you think? 82 00:09:10,468 --> 00:09:12,386 Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. 83 00:09:12,470 --> 00:09:15,806 - Course, that's part of the excitement of it. - Mm-hmm. 84 00:09:18,142 --> 00:09:20,144 Want a smoke? 85 00:09:22,146 --> 00:09:23,814 No, thanks. 86 00:09:27,526 --> 00:09:30,863 - Max, just relax. - Okay. 87 00:09:30,947 --> 00:09:35,243 And now here it is: The Rena King Show. 88 00:09:35,326 --> 00:09:37,286 And this afternoon, Rena's guests are Max Renn... 89 00:09:37,370 --> 00:09:42,041 controversial president of Channel 83, radio personality Nicki Brand... 90 00:09:42,124 --> 00:09:44,669 and media prophet Professor Brian O'Blivion. 91 00:09:44,752 --> 00:09:47,129 Take it away, Rena. 92 00:09:47,213 --> 00:09:49,507 Max Renn... 93 00:09:49,590 --> 00:09:51,759 your television station offers its viewers... 94 00:09:51,842 --> 00:09:54,053 everything from soft-core pornography... 95 00:09:54,136 --> 00:09:56,138 to hard-core violence. 96 00:09:56,222 --> 00:09:59,267 - Why? - Well, it's a matter of economics, Rena. 97 00:09:59,350 --> 00:10:01,269 We're, uh, small. 98 00:10:01,352 --> 00:10:05,189 In order to survive, we have to give people something they can't get anywhere else... 99 00:10:05,273 --> 00:10:07,441 and, uh — and we do that. 100 00:10:08,442 --> 00:10:10,611 But don't you feel such shows contribute... 101 00:10:10,695 --> 00:10:14,448 to a social climate of violence and sexual malaise? 102 00:10:14,532 --> 00:10:17,451 - And do you care? - Certainly, I care. 103 00:10:17,535 --> 00:10:20,746 I care enough, in fact, to give my viewers a — 104 00:10:20,830 --> 00:10:24,375 a harmless outlet for their fantasies and their frustrations. 105 00:10:24,458 --> 00:10:28,296 As far as I'm concerned, that's a socially positive act. 106 00:10:28,379 --> 00:10:32,133 What about it, Nicki? Is it socially positive? 107 00:10:32,216 --> 00:10:34,719 Well, I think we live in overstimulated times. 108 00:10:34,802 --> 00:10:36,762 We crave stimulation for its own sake. 109 00:10:36,846 --> 00:10:39,140 We gorge ourselves on it. 110 00:10:39,223 --> 00:10:43,853 We always want more, whether it's tactile, emotional or sexual... 111 00:10:43,936 --> 00:10:45,438 and I think that's bad. 112 00:10:45,521 --> 00:10:48,482 Then why did you wear that dress? 113 00:10:48,566 --> 00:10:52,153 - Sorry? - That dress. 114 00:10:52,236 --> 00:10:56,449 It's very stimulating, and — and it's red. 115 00:10:57,950 --> 00:11:00,661 You know what Freud would have said about that dress. 116 00:11:00,745 --> 00:11:03,873 And he would've been right. I admit it. 117 00:11:03,956 --> 00:11:06,834 I live in a highly excited state of overstimulation. 118 00:11:08,336 --> 00:11:10,838 Listen, I'd really like to take you out to dinner tonight. 119 00:11:11,839 --> 00:11:14,342 - Professor O'Blivion. - What do you think? 120 00:11:14,425 --> 00:11:17,678 Do you think erotic TV shows and violent TV shows... 121 00:11:17,762 --> 00:11:20,056 lead to desensitization... 122 00:11:20,139 --> 00:11:22,058 to dehumanization? 123 00:11:24,143 --> 00:11:29,190 The television screen has become the retina of the mind's eye. 124 00:11:29,273 --> 00:11:32,026 Yes. 125 00:11:32,109 --> 00:11:35,112 That's why I refuse to appear on television... 126 00:11:35,196 --> 00:11:37,615 except on television. 127 00:11:37,698 --> 00:11:40,368 Of course, O'Blivion is not the name I was born with. 128 00:11:40,451 --> 00:11:42,995 That's my television name. 129 00:11:43,079 --> 00:11:46,540 Soon all of us will have special names... 130 00:11:46,624 --> 00:11:51,045 names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate. 131 00:11:51,128 --> 00:11:53,756 - Yes. - Yes, I am. Very interested. 132 00:11:53,839 --> 00:11:58,052 Nicki, is Max Renn a menace to society? 133 00:11:58,135 --> 00:12:00,554 I'm not sure. 134 00:12:00,638 --> 00:12:03,265 He's certainly a menace to me. 135 00:12:08,729 --> 00:12:11,023 When does the plot, uh, start to unravel here? 136 00:12:11,107 --> 00:12:14,110 I mean, who is this black guy? Is he a political prisoner? 137 00:12:15,486 --> 00:12:17,571 There's no plot. 138 00:12:17,655 --> 00:12:20,074 It just goes on like that for an hour. 139 00:12:20,157 --> 00:12:23,202 - Goes on like what? - Like that. 140 00:12:23,285 --> 00:12:26,539 Torture, murder... 141 00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:29,458 mutilation. 142 00:12:29,542 --> 00:12:32,711 - We never leave that room? - Nope. 143 00:12:32,795 --> 00:12:35,256 - It's a real sicko. - Brilliant. 144 00:12:35,339 --> 00:12:37,259 - For perverts only. - It's absolutely brilliant. 145 00:12:37,341 --> 00:12:40,261 I mean, look, there's almost no production costs. 146 00:12:40,344 --> 00:12:43,264 You can't take your eyes off it. It's incredibly realistic. 147 00:12:43,347 --> 00:12:45,266 Where do they get actors who can do this? 148 00:12:45,349 --> 00:12:47,476 - Oh, help me. I think he wants it. - Come on. 149 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:50,271 It's worth checking out. 150 00:12:50,354 --> 00:12:52,606 Did you have any trouble locking onto it this time? 151 00:12:52,690 --> 00:12:56,193 Not after I realized the Malaysia delay was a plant. 152 00:12:57,236 --> 00:13:01,323 - It's not coming from Malaysia? - You can't fool the Prince of Pirates for long. 153 00:13:01,407 --> 00:13:04,702 Har — Harlan, where is it coming from? 154 00:13:05,911 --> 00:13:09,415 Pittsburgh. That's in the U.S.A. 155 00:13:10,458 --> 00:13:12,376 Pittsburgh? 156 00:13:13,419 --> 00:13:16,297 Pittsburgh. 157 00:13:16,380 --> 00:13:19,133 Get professional help. 158 00:13:19,216 --> 00:13:21,802 But it's not me. It's my sister. 159 00:13:21,886 --> 00:13:25,055 It's not your sister. It's you, lover. 160 00:13:25,139 --> 00:13:29,059 Can't you tell? Isn't that why you called me? 161 00:13:29,143 --> 00:13:32,188 You want help. You need help. 162 00:13:32,271 --> 00:13:36,484 You're going insane. I can hear you disintegrating while you talk to me. 163 00:13:38,402 --> 00:13:42,323 I've got your number, haven't I? 164 00:13:42,406 --> 00:13:45,117 I hate my sister. 165 00:13:47,161 --> 00:13:50,414 I don't want to. It's ripping me up inside. 166 00:13:50,498 --> 00:13:54,210 But I do. I do. 167 00:13:54,293 --> 00:13:56,378 Will you call our Distress Center? 168 00:13:56,462 --> 00:14:00,132 Will you call the CRAM Distress Center? 169 00:14:00,216 --> 00:14:02,510 They'll tell you where to get help, lover. 170 00:14:02,593 --> 00:14:05,513 And you need it. You need it now. 171 00:14:05,596 --> 00:14:08,390 I will. I will. Oh, thank you, Nicki. 172 00:14:11,602 --> 00:14:13,521 We'll return to Nicki Brand... 173 00:14:13,604 --> 00:14:16,524 and the Emotional Rescue show in just a moment. 174 00:14:16,607 --> 00:14:20,694 This is CRAM in Toronto, and we've got the weather for you. 175 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,908 - Got any porno? - You serious? 176 00:14:25,991 --> 00:14:28,619 Yeah. Gets me in the mood. 177 00:14:32,665 --> 00:14:34,708 What's this? "Videodrome." 178 00:14:34,792 --> 00:14:37,002 Torture, murder. 179 00:14:37,086 --> 00:14:39,004 Sounds great. 180 00:14:39,088 --> 00:14:41,465 Ain't exactly sex. 181 00:14:42,508 --> 00:14:44,301 Says who? 182 00:14:56,188 --> 00:14:59,108 - God, I can't believe it. - I'll turn it off. 183 00:14:59,191 --> 00:15:02,069 No, no, no. It's okay. I can take it. 184 00:15:06,115 --> 00:15:08,409 Can you get it any clearer? 185 00:15:08,492 --> 00:15:11,245 It's a pirate tape. They scramble it. 186 00:15:11,328 --> 00:15:14,373 I like it. 187 00:15:14,456 --> 00:15:18,002 - Yeah? - Yeah, it turns me on. 188 00:15:20,337 --> 00:15:23,299 Take out your Swiss Army knife and cut me here... 189 00:15:23,382 --> 00:15:25,301 just — just a little. 190 00:15:25,384 --> 00:15:27,720 Looks like somebody's beat me to it. 191 00:15:34,685 --> 00:15:37,354 I wonder how you get to be a contestant on this show. 192 00:15:38,355 --> 00:15:42,192 I don't know. Nobody ever seems to come back next week. 193 00:15:42,276 --> 00:15:44,695 What did you say happened to your shoulder? 194 00:15:45,696 --> 00:15:48,699 A friend. I think he'd like Videodrome. 195 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,454 - You let somebody cut you? - Uh-huh. 196 00:15:53,537 --> 00:15:56,790 What do you think? 197 00:15:57,875 --> 00:16:00,461 Well, I-I don't know. 198 00:16:00,544 --> 00:16:03,714 You wanna try a few things? 199 00:16:39,958 --> 00:16:41,919 Oh. 200 00:16:47,257 --> 00:16:49,301 Oh. 201 00:19:07,397 --> 00:19:11,151 Max, thank God. Masha Borowczyk has been in your office for an hour. 202 00:19:11,235 --> 00:19:13,153 - Masha. - What were you doing last night? 203 00:19:13,237 --> 00:19:15,715 - Didn't you get my message? - I don't think I'm ready for this. 204 00:19:15,739 --> 00:19:19,493 - Coffee. Cigarette. Office. Masha. Go. - All right. Masha. 205 00:19:19,576 --> 00:19:22,830 She's hot to trot. 206 00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:26,834 I call it... 207 00:19:26,917 --> 00:19:29,586 Apollo and Dionysus. 208 00:19:33,757 --> 00:19:36,009 Masha, does it ever get good? 209 00:19:36,093 --> 00:19:39,012 It's all good. 210 00:19:39,096 --> 00:19:41,473 Darling... 211 00:19:41,557 --> 00:19:44,852 I am looking for something a lot more... 212 00:19:44,935 --> 00:19:47,145 contemporary. 213 00:19:47,229 --> 00:19:51,400 I want something that's gonna show people what's really goin' on under the sheets. 214 00:19:51,483 --> 00:19:54,695 This stuff is too — It's too naïve. 215 00:19:54,778 --> 00:19:56,905 It's too sweet, like you, darling. 216 00:20:03,912 --> 00:20:07,374 Well, it's your market. 217 00:20:10,377 --> 00:20:12,838 Do you know a show called Videodrome? 218 00:20:12,921 --> 00:20:15,716 - Video-what? - D-R-O-M-E. 219 00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:18,886 Videodrome, like video circus, video arena. 220 00:20:18,969 --> 00:20:21,680 - You know it? - No. 221 00:20:21,763 --> 00:20:23,682 It's just torture and murder. 222 00:20:23,765 --> 00:20:27,603 No plot, no characters. Very, very realistic. 223 00:20:27,686 --> 00:20:30,606 I think it's what's next. 224 00:20:30,689 --> 00:20:32,608 Then God help us. 225 00:20:32,691 --> 00:20:35,903 Better on TV than on the street. 226 00:20:39,072 --> 00:20:41,074 Arnold on line three. 227 00:20:41,158 --> 00:20:43,452 You interested in, uh, tracking it down for me? 228 00:20:43,535 --> 00:20:45,579 I'll see that you get the agent's commission. 229 00:20:45,662 --> 00:20:49,207 I'm interested. Let me try. 230 00:20:51,168 --> 00:20:53,587 Max... 231 00:20:53,670 --> 00:20:55,756 did you ever think... 232 00:20:55,839 --> 00:20:57,925 of producing your own show? 233 00:20:58,008 --> 00:21:00,052 Right here? 234 00:21:01,261 --> 00:21:03,263 I could be your agent... 235 00:21:03,347 --> 00:21:05,265 worldwide. 236 00:21:05,349 --> 00:21:08,810 I could sell subterranean for you everywhere. 237 00:21:08,894 --> 00:21:12,147 - No, I don't have the temperament. - But if you did... 238 00:21:13,649 --> 00:21:16,151 what kind of show would you do? 239 00:21:16,234 --> 00:21:19,988 I mean, for the subterranean market. 240 00:21:20,072 --> 00:21:23,992 Would you do... Videodrome? 241 00:21:25,327 --> 00:21:27,287 Max. 242 00:21:27,371 --> 00:21:31,500 - Mm-hmm. - I'm goin' away tomorrow for two weeks... 243 00:21:31,583 --> 00:21:33,710 on assignment. 244 00:21:34,711 --> 00:21:37,339 Guess where? 245 00:21:37,422 --> 00:21:39,633 L.A. 246 00:21:39,716 --> 00:21:43,011 - Pittsburgh. - Fabulous. 247 00:21:43,095 --> 00:21:47,265 Don't stay in the sun too long. I hear it's bad for the skin. 248 00:21:47,349 --> 00:21:50,352 Oh, come on. Isn't that where they make Videodrome? 249 00:21:50,435 --> 00:21:52,980 Yeah. Why? 250 00:21:54,398 --> 00:21:56,566 I'm gonna audition. 251 00:21:58,151 --> 00:22:00,112 I was made for that show. 252 00:22:00,195 --> 00:22:03,115 Nobody on earth was made for that show. 253 00:22:05,283 --> 00:22:08,078 Hey. Listen to me. 254 00:22:11,081 --> 00:22:12,749 - Listen to me. - What? 255 00:22:12,833 --> 00:22:14,501 I want you to stay away from it. 256 00:22:14,584 --> 00:22:17,212 Those mondo weirdo video guys, they've got unsavory connections. 257 00:22:17,295 --> 00:22:20,424 They play rough, rougher than even Nicki Brand wants to play. 258 00:22:20,507 --> 00:22:22,551 Do you understand me? 259 00:22:22,634 --> 00:22:24,594 Sounds like a challenge. 260 00:22:33,979 --> 00:22:35,647 Got a cigarette? 261 00:22:38,233 --> 00:22:39,901 It's not a challenge. 262 00:22:40,902 --> 00:22:44,531 I swear. You know, in Brazil, Central America, those kinds of places... 263 00:22:44,614 --> 00:22:49,077 making underground video is considered a subversive act. 264 00:22:49,161 --> 00:22:52,706 They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh, who knows? 265 00:23:02,132 --> 00:23:04,217 Max. 266 00:23:12,642 --> 00:23:15,228 Nicki, don't! 267 00:23:30,077 --> 00:23:31,995 Nicki, don't. 268 00:23:37,084 --> 00:23:39,252 Don't. 269 00:24:32,639 --> 00:24:37,602 - Do you have a hangover? - No. Stayed up late watching TV. 270 00:24:38,770 --> 00:24:41,648 Did you get in touch with our friends in Pittsburgh? 271 00:24:41,731 --> 00:24:45,152 In a way. At a distance. 272 00:24:45,235 --> 00:24:47,195 - Subterranean grapevine. - And? 273 00:24:48,822 --> 00:24:50,949 Max... 274 00:24:51,032 --> 00:24:54,494 Videodrome is something for you to leave alone. 275 00:24:54,578 --> 00:24:58,707 It is definitely not for public consumption. 276 00:24:58,790 --> 00:25:03,170 Channel 83 is a little small to be considered public. 277 00:25:03,253 --> 00:25:05,505 It is still too public. 278 00:25:05,589 --> 00:25:08,466 - Do you understand me? - No. What's the punch line? 279 00:25:09,467 --> 00:25:12,345 I think it's dangerous, Max, Videodrome. 280 00:25:12,429 --> 00:25:15,599 - Why? It's Mafia? They do business. - No, no. 281 00:25:15,682 --> 00:25:19,561 It's more, um — How can I say? 282 00:25:19,644 --> 00:25:21,605 More political than that. 283 00:25:22,898 --> 00:25:26,860 - Come on, Masha. What are we talkin' about? - Videodrome. 284 00:25:26,943 --> 00:25:29,446 What you see on that show... 285 00:25:29,529 --> 00:25:31,281 it's for real. 286 00:25:31,364 --> 00:25:35,869 It's not acting. It's snuff TV. 287 00:25:35,952 --> 00:25:37,579 I don't believe it. 288 00:25:40,457 --> 00:25:44,085 So don't believe. 289 00:25:44,169 --> 00:25:45,879 Why do it for real? 290 00:25:45,962 --> 00:25:49,174 It's easier and safer to fake it. 291 00:25:49,257 --> 00:25:51,718 Because it has something... 292 00:25:51,801 --> 00:25:54,221 that you don't have, Max. 293 00:25:54,304 --> 00:25:56,056 It has a philosophy... 294 00:25:56,139 --> 00:26:00,477 - and that is what makes it dangerous. - Whose philosophy? 295 00:26:02,604 --> 00:26:05,232 There must be a name. 296 00:26:05,315 --> 00:26:09,027 Give me a name I can talk to. Masha, Masha, you know me. 297 00:26:09,110 --> 00:26:11,613 I stay away from the scary stuff. 298 00:26:15,659 --> 00:26:17,661 Max... 299 00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:21,248 you are going to have to be nice to me for this. 300 00:26:21,331 --> 00:26:25,460 We can take a shower together, anytime you say. 301 00:26:28,338 --> 00:26:32,759 I'm sure you would be very beautiful... 302 00:26:32,842 --> 00:26:37,138 but, uh, you're a little older than I prefer. 303 00:26:38,139 --> 00:26:40,267 Thank you... 304 00:26:40,350 --> 00:26:43,019 so much. 305 00:26:49,025 --> 00:26:50,944 Sell me a name... 306 00:26:51,027 --> 00:26:53,488 and I'll make Apollo and Dionysus part of the package. 307 00:26:56,408 --> 00:26:58,785 That hurts me, Max. 308 00:26:58,868 --> 00:27:01,329 Hey, the world's a shithole, ain't it? 309 00:27:04,541 --> 00:27:06,334 Yes, Max. 310 00:27:06,418 --> 00:27:08,378 It is. 311 00:27:13,925 --> 00:27:16,469 Brian O'Blivion. 312 00:27:16,553 --> 00:27:19,014 That is the only name I have to give. 313 00:27:19,097 --> 00:27:23,101 Professor Brian O'Blivion. 314 00:27:28,106 --> 00:27:30,066 Wait, where you goin'? Come back here. 315 00:27:30,150 --> 00:27:32,569 Hey. Hey, buddy. Got a fag? 316 00:27:32,652 --> 00:27:35,572 - Are they goin' in now? - Got a cigarette? 317 00:27:39,743 --> 00:27:42,704 - Gotta have a smoke and a cup of coffee. - Wait a minute. 318 00:27:42,787 --> 00:27:46,082 They don't serve coffee there. They just serve piss water. 319 00:27:46,166 --> 00:27:51,671 I don't need to put up with this shit. I'm a young woman. 320 00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:56,468 Take a good look at me. I'm a good-lookin' woman. I got nice tits. 321 00:27:56,551 --> 00:27:58,470 Let's go. 322 00:28:04,517 --> 00:28:07,437 Hello. Move along. 323 00:28:14,110 --> 00:28:16,529 Move out of my way! 324 00:28:16,613 --> 00:28:19,532 Hello. Straight down the hallway. 325 00:28:22,911 --> 00:28:25,830 Keep on. Straight down the hallway. 326 00:28:25,914 --> 00:28:28,833 Keep going, keep going. 327 00:28:30,460 --> 00:28:33,088 Come on. Step along. 328 00:29:13,545 --> 00:29:15,463 - Bianca O'Blivion? - Yes. 329 00:29:15,547 --> 00:29:18,758 I'm Max Renn. I, uh — I run Civic TV. 330 00:29:18,842 --> 00:29:22,637 I did a panel show with Prof. O'Blivion. The Rena King Show. 331 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,640 Oh, yes. You said some very superficial things. 332 00:29:25,723 --> 00:29:28,101 Violence, sex, imagination, catharsis. 333 00:29:28,184 --> 00:29:30,228 - My exact words. - What do you want? 334 00:29:30,311 --> 00:29:32,605 I wanna talk with your father... 335 00:29:32,689 --> 00:29:35,984 about a new twist in video that he may not be aware of. 336 00:29:57,589 --> 00:30:00,091 I love the view. 337 00:30:00,175 --> 00:30:04,012 You look like them, like one of Father's derelicts. 338 00:30:04,095 --> 00:30:06,806 Think it's a style that's coming back. 339 00:30:06,890 --> 00:30:10,351 In their case, Mr. Renn, it's not a style. 340 00:30:10,435 --> 00:30:14,689 It's a disease forced on them by their lack of access to the cathode ray tube. 341 00:30:14,772 --> 00:30:17,108 You think a few doses of TV are gonna help them? 342 00:30:17,192 --> 00:30:22,030 Watching TV will help patch them back into the world's mixing board. 343 00:30:22,113 --> 00:30:24,157 Absolutely. 344 00:30:26,075 --> 00:30:30,205 And I guess you encourage Father's derelicts to make home movies? 345 00:30:30,288 --> 00:30:32,290 The world's mixing board? 346 00:30:32,373 --> 00:30:35,668 Professor O'Blivion sends video letters all over the world. 347 00:30:35,752 --> 00:30:39,506 - Is the Professor here? - I am my father's screen. 348 00:30:47,597 --> 00:30:52,352 Once you've told me what this visit is all about, he may choose to send you a cassette. 349 00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:54,687 If he does, which format would you like? 350 00:30:54,771 --> 00:30:57,440 If he does, it's gonna make conversation a little difficult. 351 00:30:58,441 --> 00:31:02,237 My father has not engaged in conversation for at least 20 years. 352 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,782 The monologue is his preferred mode of discourse. 353 00:31:06,991 --> 00:31:08,952 Format. 354 00:31:10,578 --> 00:31:12,705 Videodrome. 355 00:31:12,789 --> 00:31:15,333 Is that a Japanese configuration? 356 00:31:17,669 --> 00:31:19,837 - You've never heard of it? - No. 357 00:31:19,921 --> 00:31:23,216 Then there have been serious gaps in your education. 358 00:31:23,299 --> 00:31:25,718 Videodrome. 359 00:31:25,802 --> 00:31:29,889 Mention it to your father. He may want to have a conversation. 360 00:31:29,973 --> 00:31:33,893 I love the view. 361 00:31:48,783 --> 00:31:52,579 Torture, murder, mutilation. 362 00:31:52,662 --> 00:31:54,831 Videodrome. 363 00:31:54,914 --> 00:31:57,584 What you see on that show... 364 00:31:57,667 --> 00:31:59,711 it's for real. 365 00:31:59,794 --> 00:32:01,921 I'm gonna audition. 366 00:32:02,005 --> 00:32:04,090 I was made for that show. 367 00:32:04,173 --> 00:32:09,512 It has something that you don't have, Max. 368 00:32:09,596 --> 00:32:14,225 It has a philosophy, and that is what makes it dangerous. 369 00:32:57,352 --> 00:33:00,855 Hi. This is your wake-up cassette... 370 00:33:00,938 --> 00:33:03,483 and this came to the office for you by courier. 371 00:33:03,566 --> 00:33:06,319 - What did they say at CRAM? - They said that Nicki Brand... 372 00:33:06,402 --> 00:33:08,696 is definitely not on assignment for them. 373 00:33:08,780 --> 00:33:11,157 She had a month off coming. She decided to take it now... 374 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,242 Don't touch that! 375 00:33:19,624 --> 00:33:22,126 Jesus, Max, you scared me. 376 00:33:25,672 --> 00:33:28,007 What the hell's wrong with you? 377 00:33:28,091 --> 00:33:31,344 I don't know, man. I think I'm gettin', like, a rash or somethin'. 378 00:33:31,427 --> 00:33:34,681 - Uh — - What? 379 00:33:34,764 --> 00:33:38,059 Are you all right? Bridey, I didn't mean to hit you. 380 00:33:38,142 --> 00:33:40,103 Hit me? 381 00:33:41,104 --> 00:33:42,980 You didn't hit me. 382 00:33:43,064 --> 00:33:47,318 No? No. No, I know I didn't hit you. I meant — 383 00:33:48,945 --> 00:33:51,864 Do you want me to stay here? 384 00:33:52,949 --> 00:33:55,868 - Uh — - You look awful. 385 00:33:55,952 --> 00:33:58,371 - Can I get you something? - Uh, no, uh — 386 00:33:58,454 --> 00:34:00,873 No, I'm just, uh — 387 00:34:00,957 --> 00:34:03,501 Uh, I'm — 388 00:34:03,584 --> 00:34:07,630 I'm exhausted. I was in a deep sleep when you knocked... 389 00:34:07,714 --> 00:34:10,049 and I guess I'm still not out of it. 390 00:34:10,133 --> 00:34:12,051 I'll remember to set the timer. Don't worry. 391 00:34:12,135 --> 00:34:14,053 - You're sure? Are you sure? - I'm sure. Yeah. 392 00:34:14,137 --> 00:34:16,055 Thanks, Bridey. Tomorrow. 393 00:34:16,139 --> 00:34:18,641 Max, that other cassette is from the office of Brian O'Blivion. 394 00:34:18,725 --> 00:34:22,395 I promised I'd hand-deliver it directly to you. 395 00:34:22,478 --> 00:34:25,064 Will you call me if you need me? 396 00:35:23,623 --> 00:35:26,292 The battle for the mind of North America... 397 00:35:26,375 --> 00:35:29,170 will be fought in the video arena: 398 00:35:29,253 --> 00:35:31,172 the Videodrome. 399 00:35:31,255 --> 00:35:36,302 The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. 400 00:35:36,385 --> 00:35:40,932 Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. 401 00:35:41,015 --> 00:35:45,937 Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen... 402 00:35:46,020 --> 00:35:50,608 emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. 403 00:35:50,691 --> 00:35:54,445 Therefore, television is reality... 404 00:35:54,529 --> 00:35:57,824 and reality is less than television. 405 00:35:57,907 --> 00:36:00,618 Max. 406 00:36:00,701 --> 00:36:04,956 I'm so glad you came to me. 407 00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:07,750 I've been through it all myself, you see. 408 00:36:09,168 --> 00:36:14,173 Your reality is already half video hallucination. 409 00:36:14,257 --> 00:36:18,845 If you're not careful, it will become total hallucination. 410 00:36:18,928 --> 00:36:24,100 You'll have to learn to live in a very strange new world. 411 00:36:24,183 --> 00:36:26,185 I had a brain tumor... 412 00:36:26,269 --> 00:36:28,271 and I had visions. 413 00:36:29,730 --> 00:36:33,025 I believed the visions caused the tumor... 414 00:36:33,109 --> 00:36:35,528 and not the reverse. 415 00:36:35,611 --> 00:36:41,409 I could feel the visions coalesce and become flesh. 416 00:36:41,492 --> 00:36:44,662 Uncontrollable flesh. 417 00:36:45,955 --> 00:36:48,124 But when they removed the tumor... 418 00:36:49,125 --> 00:36:51,752 it was called Videodrome. 419 00:36:53,462 --> 00:36:55,381 I was the — 420 00:36:55,464 --> 00:36:57,884 I — I... 421 00:36:57,967 --> 00:37:00,928 was Videodrome's... 422 00:37:01,012 --> 00:37:03,890 first victim. 423 00:37:04,891 --> 00:37:07,018 But who's behind it? What do they want? 424 00:37:08,978 --> 00:37:11,105 I want you, Max. 425 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,859 You. 426 00:37:17,653 --> 00:37:19,614 Come to me. 427 00:37:21,157 --> 00:37:23,326 Come to Nicki. 428 00:37:24,702 --> 00:37:26,621 Come on. 429 00:37:26,704 --> 00:37:29,582 Don't make me wait. 430 00:37:33,544 --> 00:37:35,755 Please. 431 00:38:05,576 --> 00:38:09,705 I want you, Max. 432 00:38:09,789 --> 00:38:11,707 You. 433 00:38:13,918 --> 00:38:15,962 Come on. 434 00:38:17,213 --> 00:38:20,257 Come on. 435 00:38:25,096 --> 00:38:27,431 Come to me now. 436 00:38:28,557 --> 00:38:30,851 Come to Nicki. 437 00:38:30,935 --> 00:38:34,689 Don't keep me waiting. 438 00:38:34,772 --> 00:38:36,774 Please. 439 00:38:40,736 --> 00:38:42,738 Please. 440 00:39:00,756 --> 00:39:04,719 Today Lady Luck may smile on these four players... 441 00:39:04,802 --> 00:39:07,221 and start them on the road to $12,000 — 442 00:39:07,304 --> 00:39:09,544 We have a new group of people coming in this afternoon... 443 00:39:09,598 --> 00:39:12,685 - so tell the staff about that. - All right. Good. 444 00:39:24,321 --> 00:39:27,491 Exciting. Very lively. 445 00:39:27,575 --> 00:39:29,994 Careful. It bites. 446 00:39:35,958 --> 00:39:38,127 - You watched the cassette? - Yeah. 447 00:39:38,210 --> 00:39:39,837 - And? - It changed my life. 448 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,298 I'm not surprised. It's dangerous, you know. 449 00:39:42,381 --> 00:39:45,801 Because your father admits he's somehow involved with Videodrome? 450 00:39:45,885 --> 00:39:50,347 More than that. It bites. Isn't that what you said? 451 00:39:50,431 --> 00:39:52,349 What kind of teeth do you think it has? 452 00:39:52,433 --> 00:39:56,312 It triggered off a series of hallucinations. I woke up with a headache. 453 00:39:56,395 --> 00:39:59,899 - First time ever? - No, I-I've been hallucinating for a while... 454 00:39:59,982 --> 00:40:01,942 - ever since — - What? 455 00:40:04,779 --> 00:40:07,615 Since I first saw Videodrome. 456 00:40:09,492 --> 00:40:11,494 How did you come to be exposed to it? 457 00:40:11,577 --> 00:40:14,622 Pirate satellite dish. 458 00:40:14,705 --> 00:40:17,958 A-An accident. 459 00:40:18,042 --> 00:40:20,044 I made some tapes. 460 00:40:20,127 --> 00:40:22,046 This is part of my own Videodrome collection. 461 00:40:22,129 --> 00:40:24,882 But that tape is just your father sitting at his desk. 462 00:40:24,965 --> 00:40:30,805 The tone of the hallucinations is determined by the tone of the tape's imagery. 463 00:40:30,888 --> 00:40:34,183 But the Videodrome signal, the one that does the damage... 464 00:40:34,266 --> 00:40:38,062 it can be delivered under a test pattern, anything. 465 00:40:38,145 --> 00:40:40,064 Mmm. 466 00:40:42,525 --> 00:40:44,443 Damage? 467 00:40:44,527 --> 00:40:47,780 The signal induces a brain tumor in the viewer. 468 00:40:48,781 --> 00:40:51,283 It's the tumor that creates the hallucinations. 469 00:40:51,367 --> 00:40:53,702 You let me watch it? 470 00:40:53,786 --> 00:40:57,915 I expect them to come to me eventually to hurt me. I thought it might be you. 471 00:40:59,208 --> 00:41:01,794 Now I realize you're just another victim... 472 00:41:01,877 --> 00:41:03,879 like Father was. 473 00:41:03,963 --> 00:41:08,259 Where is your father? I think I'd better talk to him. 474 00:41:08,342 --> 00:41:10,845 He's in there. 475 00:41:14,598 --> 00:41:17,184 I'm afraid he'll disappoint you. 476 00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:25,109 This is him. 477 00:41:25,192 --> 00:41:28,404 - This is all that's left. - What are you talking about? 478 00:41:28,487 --> 00:41:33,450 Brian O'Blivion died quietly on an operating table 11 months ago. 479 00:41:33,534 --> 00:41:37,830 - The brain problem? - The Videodrome problem. 480 00:41:37,913 --> 00:41:42,084 - You have it too. - But he was on that panel show with me. 481 00:41:42,168 --> 00:41:44,837 On tape. He made thousands of them. 482 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,631 Sometimes three or four a day. 483 00:41:47,715 --> 00:41:50,009 I keep him alive as best I can. 484 00:41:50,092 --> 00:41:52,136 He had so much to offer. 485 00:41:52,219 --> 00:41:55,264 My father helped to create Videodrome. 486 00:41:55,347 --> 00:42:00,144 He saw it as the next phase in the evolution of man as a technological animal. 487 00:42:00,227 --> 00:42:03,355 When he realized what his partners were going to use it for... 488 00:42:03,439 --> 00:42:05,399 he tried to take it away from them. 489 00:42:05,482 --> 00:42:09,445 And they killed him. Quietly. 490 00:42:09,528 --> 00:42:12,740 At the end, he was convinced that public life on television... 491 00:42:12,823 --> 00:42:16,493 was more real than private life in the flesh. 492 00:42:16,577 --> 00:42:19,371 He wasn't afraid to let his body die. 493 00:42:24,919 --> 00:42:27,254 Tell me about my Videodrome problem. 494 00:42:28,255 --> 00:42:31,133 My father knows much more about it than I do. 495 00:42:31,217 --> 00:42:33,135 Listen to him. 496 00:42:39,725 --> 00:42:42,019 Where's Harlan? He's not in the lab. 497 00:42:42,102 --> 00:42:45,731 - I think he's up in V.T.R. Max — - Not now. 498 00:42:48,609 --> 00:42:50,861 - Harlan. - Sí, patrón. 499 00:42:50,945 --> 00:42:53,781 Have you been hallucinating lately? 500 00:42:53,864 --> 00:42:56,033 No. 501 00:42:56,116 --> 00:42:58,994 - Should I be? - Yes. 502 00:42:59,078 --> 00:43:00,996 You should be. 503 00:43:04,416 --> 00:43:06,377 I believe... 504 00:43:06,460 --> 00:43:09,463 that the growth in my head — 505 00:43:09,546 --> 00:43:13,509 this head, this one right here — 506 00:43:13,592 --> 00:43:17,346 I think that it is not really a tumor... 507 00:43:17,429 --> 00:43:21,850 not an uncontrolled, undirected little bubbling pot of flesh... 508 00:43:21,934 --> 00:43:24,895 but that it is in fact... 509 00:43:24,979 --> 00:43:27,439 a new organ... 510 00:43:27,523 --> 00:43:30,109 a new part of the brain. 511 00:43:30,192 --> 00:43:34,530 I think that massive doses of Videodrome signal... 512 00:43:34,613 --> 00:43:38,575 will ultimately create a new outgrowth... 513 00:43:38,659 --> 00:43:41,245 of the human brain... 514 00:43:41,328 --> 00:43:45,124 which will produce and control hallucination... 515 00:43:45,207 --> 00:43:49,169 to the point that it will change human reality. 516 00:43:49,253 --> 00:43:52,131 After all, there is nothing real... 517 00:43:52,214 --> 00:43:55,592 outside our perception of reality... 518 00:43:55,676 --> 00:43:57,594 is there? 519 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,558 You can see that, can't you? 520 00:45:46,995 --> 00:45:49,164 - Max Renn? - Yes. 521 00:45:49,248 --> 00:45:50,874 Who is this? 522 00:45:50,958 --> 00:45:54,378 Barry Convex would like to talk to you about Videodrome. 523 00:45:54,461 --> 00:45:57,131 I've got a car waiting downstairs for you, sir. 524 00:46:35,878 --> 00:46:40,090 Please direct your attention to the television set in front of you, Mr. Renn. 525 00:46:40,174 --> 00:46:44,136 Mr. Convex has recorded a little introduction for you. 526 00:46:55,481 --> 00:46:59,735 Hi, I'm Barry Convex, Chief of Special Programs... 527 00:46:59,818 --> 00:47:03,739 and I'd like to invite you into the world of Spectacular Optical... 528 00:47:03,822 --> 00:47:07,117 an enthusiastic global corporate citizen. 529 00:47:08,118 --> 00:47:10,162 We make inexpensive glasses for the Third World... 530 00:47:10,245 --> 00:47:12,581 and missile guidance systems for NATO. 531 00:47:14,208 --> 00:47:16,126 We also make Videodrome, Max... 532 00:47:16,210 --> 00:47:18,253 and as I'm sure you know... 533 00:47:18,337 --> 00:47:22,424 when it's ready for the marketplace, things will never be quite the same again. 534 00:47:23,425 --> 00:47:27,721 It can be a giant hallucination machine and much, much more. 535 00:47:27,804 --> 00:47:32,976 But it's not ready. Those were test transmissions you picked up. 536 00:47:33,060 --> 00:47:35,103 We thought nobody could tap into them. 537 00:47:35,187 --> 00:47:39,483 He's good, that Harlan. Good pirate. 538 00:47:40,526 --> 00:47:42,778 Well, now that you have... 539 00:47:42,861 --> 00:47:45,822 I think we oughta have a little talk, don't you? 540 00:47:45,906 --> 00:47:48,909 I thought maybe... my place? 541 00:49:00,564 --> 00:49:03,191 I hope you realize you're playing with dynamite. 542 00:49:04,318 --> 00:49:07,738 That's our spring line. Top secret stuff. 543 00:49:07,821 --> 00:49:12,409 I brought it with me for a trade show here in town later this week. 544 00:49:12,492 --> 00:49:15,704 Max Renn, I'm Barry Convex. 545 00:49:18,790 --> 00:49:20,709 I — 546 00:49:20,792 --> 00:49:22,753 I think that machinery you're wearing is... 547 00:49:22,836 --> 00:49:24,921 too much for the shape of your face. 548 00:49:25,005 --> 00:49:26,923 Overwhelms you. 549 00:49:27,007 --> 00:49:30,469 Try something more, uh, spidery... 550 00:49:30,552 --> 00:49:32,554 more delicate. 551 00:49:35,849 --> 00:49:39,102 Here she is. This is our prototype. 552 00:49:39,186 --> 00:49:43,106 This is the little number that started it all. 553 00:49:44,483 --> 00:49:46,526 Max... 554 00:49:46,610 --> 00:49:50,447 I would like you to try this on for size. 555 00:49:50,530 --> 00:49:55,786 I would like to use this machine to record one of your hallucinations now. 556 00:49:55,869 --> 00:49:59,956 Then I would like to take that tape back with me to home base for analysis. 557 00:50:01,333 --> 00:50:03,251 Do I get to keep the copyright? 558 00:50:03,335 --> 00:50:07,464 I mean, I'd hate to see it show up as a Movie of the Week and not get paid for it. 559 00:50:07,547 --> 00:50:09,466 Max, I'm trying to help you. 560 00:50:09,549 --> 00:50:11,802 What makes you think I need help, Barry? 561 00:50:11,885 --> 00:50:17,391 None of our test subjects has returned to... normality. 562 00:50:17,474 --> 00:50:20,185 They're all in need of intensive psychiatric care. 563 00:50:21,687 --> 00:50:24,564 Now, you seem to be functioning reasonably well... 564 00:50:24,648 --> 00:50:26,566 so far. 565 00:50:26,650 --> 00:50:29,277 I'd like to find out why... 566 00:50:29,361 --> 00:50:31,738 and I think an analysis of one of your hallucinations... 567 00:50:31,822 --> 00:50:34,658 would be the right place to start. 568 00:50:37,994 --> 00:50:39,913 Will it hurt? 569 00:50:39,996 --> 00:50:42,124 It won't hurt you. 570 00:50:42,207 --> 00:50:44,292 You might catch yourself sliding in and out... 571 00:50:44,376 --> 00:50:46,503 of a hallucinatory state after this is all over. 572 00:50:46,586 --> 00:50:50,507 If you do, just relax and enjoy it. It'll soon go away. 573 00:50:50,590 --> 00:50:54,177 But for now, I think that you'll find a little S-and-M... 574 00:50:54,261 --> 00:50:58,807 will be necessary to trigger off a good, healthy series of hallucinations. 575 00:50:58,890 --> 00:51:02,561 That's why our Videodrome show is so strange. 576 00:51:02,644 --> 00:51:06,732 Something to do with the effects of exposure to violence on the nervous system. 577 00:51:06,815 --> 00:51:09,317 It opens up receptors in the brain and the spine... 578 00:51:09,401 --> 00:51:12,028 and that allows the Videodrome signal to sink in. 579 00:51:12,112 --> 00:51:14,364 You mean I'm gonna have to hurt you, Barry? 580 00:51:14,448 --> 00:51:17,659 'Fraid not. You don't have to actually hurt anybody. 581 00:51:17,743 --> 00:51:19,953 You just have to think about it. 582 00:51:28,670 --> 00:51:30,714 Wha-a-a — That's too bright! I can't take it! 583 00:51:30,797 --> 00:51:33,258 - Yes! I forgot! Sorry! How's that? - Shit. 584 00:51:33,341 --> 00:51:36,595 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. 585 00:51:42,559 --> 00:51:45,270 Okay, we're rolling. 586 00:51:45,353 --> 00:51:47,647 The taping mechanism is all self-contained. 587 00:51:47,731 --> 00:51:50,984 You don't have to do anything now but hallucinate. 588 00:51:51,067 --> 00:51:52,986 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 589 00:51:57,491 --> 00:51:59,451 I'll come back for you later. 590 00:52:01,912 --> 00:52:06,041 You'll forgive me if I don't stay around to watch. 591 00:52:06,124 --> 00:52:09,044 I just can't cope with the freaky stuff. 592 00:52:57,717 --> 00:52:59,719 Nicki? 593 00:53:01,555 --> 00:53:07,143 - Nicki. - Well, here we are at last... 594 00:53:07,227 --> 00:53:10,272 right where we oughta be: 595 00:53:10,355 --> 00:53:12,524 on Videodrome. 596 00:53:25,954 --> 00:53:28,874 What are you waiting for, lover? 597 00:53:28,957 --> 00:53:31,001 Let's perform. 598 00:53:31,084 --> 00:53:33,795 Let's open those neural floodgates. 599 00:53:59,112 --> 00:54:01,072 Aah! 600 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,119 Aah! 601 00:54:19,925 --> 00:54:22,260 Aah! 602 00:54:25,180 --> 00:54:27,557 Aah! 603 00:54:32,979 --> 00:54:35,565 Aah! 604 00:54:47,827 --> 00:54:50,956 What's going on, Professor O'Blivion? 605 00:54:51,039 --> 00:54:53,083 I mean, really. 606 00:54:53,166 --> 00:54:55,460 Oh. 607 00:55:24,823 --> 00:55:27,033 Oh, Masha. 608 00:56:00,900 --> 00:56:02,819 Harlan... 609 00:56:02,902 --> 00:56:04,821 it's Max. 610 00:56:04,904 --> 00:56:07,991 Can you come over to my apartment? Right away. 611 00:56:08,074 --> 00:56:09,993 Yeah, I'm serious. 612 00:56:11,369 --> 00:56:14,330 - Come on in. - Well, here I am, patrón. 613 00:56:14,414 --> 00:56:17,876 Camera. Flashgun. What's up? You wanna be a centerfold? 614 00:56:17,959 --> 00:56:19,878 I want you to go into my bedroom... 615 00:56:19,961 --> 00:56:22,172 and I want you to take a look at what's in my bed. 616 00:56:22,255 --> 00:56:24,758 Uncover it. Don't be shy. I want pictures. 617 00:56:27,802 --> 00:56:30,805 - Pictures of what's in your bed? - Yeah. Do it. 618 00:56:32,599 --> 00:56:34,934 Sure. Okay. 619 00:56:37,604 --> 00:56:39,564 Oh, God. 620 00:56:56,081 --> 00:56:57,749 Well? 621 00:57:01,336 --> 00:57:03,296 Max. 622 00:57:06,716 --> 00:57:08,635 I don't see anything. 623 00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:13,056 You didn't just want me to shoot your bed, pillows, sheets... 624 00:57:13,139 --> 00:57:15,642 did you? 625 00:57:24,984 --> 00:57:28,446 - It's disa — - Max, are you in some kind of drug warp? 626 00:57:29,447 --> 00:57:33,243 I've got friends who can help. Bridey said she came by a couple of days ago. You were — 627 00:57:33,326 --> 00:57:35,537 Did you tape Videodrome last night? 628 00:57:35,620 --> 00:57:37,598 If it was transmitted, the machine would've caught it. 629 00:57:37,622 --> 00:57:39,683 I'll meet you in the lab in one hour. I wanna see it. 630 00:57:39,707 --> 00:57:43,753 - Jeez, it's not even 7:00 a.m. - I'm not fucking around! Do you understand? 631 00:57:43,837 --> 00:57:47,423 Well, fuck you. I'm not some fucking servomechanism you can switch on. 632 00:57:47,507 --> 00:57:51,386 You want me to run around like an asshole, tell me what I'm doing it for. 633 00:57:51,469 --> 00:57:53,447 Otherwise, I'll see you during office hours, patrón. 634 00:57:53,471 --> 00:57:56,432 Harlan... you're right. 635 00:57:56,516 --> 00:58:00,270 It's momentum. I'm runnin' like an express train here. I don't know how to stop. 636 00:58:00,353 --> 00:58:02,814 Look, I'll meet you in the lab in one hour. 637 00:58:02,897 --> 00:58:06,401 Okay? And then we'll see if we pulled in any Videodrome last night... 638 00:58:06,484 --> 00:58:08,403 and I'll tell you what's going on. 639 00:58:08,486 --> 00:58:11,239 Everything. I promise. Okay? 640 00:58:11,322 --> 00:58:14,951 Okay. I'm sorry if I freaked out on you. 641 00:58:15,034 --> 00:58:18,413 - I don't work with you for the money. - I know that. 642 00:58:18,496 --> 00:58:20,957 With pirates, it's never just for the money, is it? 643 00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:25,461 You want a cup of cof — No, look. I'll meet you in the lab in an hour. 644 00:59:06,502 --> 00:59:08,421 Come on in. 645 00:59:09,589 --> 00:59:13,343 Did you look at the tape? 646 00:59:13,426 --> 00:59:17,805 - Did you see me on Videodrome? - There was no tape. 647 00:59:17,889 --> 00:59:20,558 There was no Videodrome transmission last night? 648 00:59:20,642 --> 00:59:22,560 Not last night. 649 00:59:22,644 --> 00:59:25,146 - Aw, fuck! - Not ever. 650 00:59:27,607 --> 00:59:29,567 What — What are you talking about? 651 00:59:34,030 --> 00:59:36,532 I'm out of my depth now, patrón. 652 00:59:36,616 --> 00:59:39,244 I had to bring in the reinforcements. 653 00:59:48,294 --> 00:59:50,088 Max. 654 00:59:51,798 --> 00:59:55,426 An intriguing combination. Very interesting. 655 00:59:56,427 --> 00:59:59,347 - Don't let me interrupt. - I think I was saying something like... 656 00:59:59,430 --> 01:00:02,183 "What are you talking about?" 657 01:00:02,267 --> 01:00:04,185 I was playing you tapes, Max. 658 01:00:05,228 --> 01:00:06,896 Prerecorded cassettes. 659 01:00:08,648 --> 01:00:12,402 Videodrome has never been transmitted on an open broadcast circuit. 660 01:00:12,485 --> 01:00:14,404 Not yet. 661 01:00:14,487 --> 01:00:17,073 I guess Barry sent you here, what, two years ago? 662 01:00:17,156 --> 01:00:21,744 It has been... two years, hasn't it, Harlan? 663 01:00:21,828 --> 01:00:25,581 Two. Two wonderful years. 664 01:00:25,665 --> 01:00:27,875 Why? 665 01:00:32,839 --> 01:00:35,174 To get you involved. 666 01:00:36,759 --> 01:00:39,095 To expose you to the Videodrome signal. 667 01:00:40,763 --> 01:00:43,266 It didn't affect you because you never watched it! 668 01:00:45,351 --> 01:00:47,937 You knew what was there. You didn't have to see it. 669 01:00:48,021 --> 01:00:52,775 It really does work on just about anybody. 670 01:00:52,859 --> 01:00:55,069 Anybody who watches it, Max. 671 01:00:56,070 --> 01:00:58,031 But why would anybody watch it? 672 01:00:59,574 --> 01:01:03,536 Why would anybody watch a scum show like Videodrome? 673 01:01:04,746 --> 01:01:06,956 Why did you watch it, Max? 674 01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:11,711 - Business reasons. - Sure. Sure. 675 01:01:13,129 --> 01:01:15,298 What about the other reasons? 676 01:01:15,381 --> 01:01:19,302 Why deny you get your kicks out of watching torture and murder? 677 01:01:19,385 --> 01:01:22,138 You murdered Brian O'Blivion, didn't you, you freak? 678 01:01:22,221 --> 01:01:24,599 Did you enjoy that? 679 01:01:32,648 --> 01:01:35,151 North America's getting soft, patrón. 680 01:01:35,234 --> 01:01:38,613 And the rest of the world is getting tough. 681 01:01:38,696 --> 01:01:40,615 Very, very tough. 682 01:01:41,783 --> 01:01:44,494 We're entering savage new times... 683 01:01:44,577 --> 01:01:47,747 and we're going to have to be pure... 684 01:01:47,830 --> 01:01:49,874 and direct... 685 01:01:49,957 --> 01:01:52,460 and strong... 686 01:01:52,543 --> 01:01:54,462 if we're gonna survive them. 687 01:01:54,545 --> 01:01:57,173 Now, you and this, uh... 688 01:01:59,425 --> 01:02:03,179 cesspool you call a television station... 689 01:02:03,262 --> 01:02:06,015 and, uh, your people who wallow around in it... 690 01:02:06,099 --> 01:02:08,935 and, uh, your viewers... 691 01:02:09,018 --> 01:02:11,020 who watch you do it — 692 01:02:12,355 --> 01:02:15,358 you're rotting us away from the inside. 693 01:02:17,151 --> 01:02:19,404 We intend to stop that rot. 694 01:02:19,487 --> 01:02:22,615 We're gonna start with Channel 83, Max. 695 01:02:22,698 --> 01:02:26,869 We're gonna use it for our first authentic transmissions of Videodrome. 696 01:02:26,953 --> 01:02:30,998 I have a hunch it's gonna be very popular... for a while. 697 01:02:31,082 --> 01:02:33,501 I've gotta be hallucinating now, right? 698 01:02:33,584 --> 01:02:36,087 I mean... 699 01:02:36,170 --> 01:02:38,297 you two can't possibly be for real. 700 01:02:39,966 --> 01:02:42,718 Ah, we did record your hallucinations, Max... 701 01:02:42,802 --> 01:02:44,804 as I said we would. 702 01:02:46,431 --> 01:02:48,433 And we did analyze them. 703 01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:52,728 You're ready for something new. 704 01:02:52,812 --> 01:02:54,647 That's terrific. 705 01:03:02,071 --> 01:03:05,450 What do you, uh — What do you want from me? 706 01:03:05,533 --> 01:03:07,743 I want you to open up, Max. 707 01:03:07,827 --> 01:03:09,829 Open up to me. 708 01:03:24,218 --> 01:03:26,137 I've got something I want to play for you. 709 01:03:30,391 --> 01:03:32,393 Oh, my God! 710 01:03:59,670 --> 01:04:02,465 We want Channel 83, Max. 711 01:04:02,548 --> 01:04:05,134 Give it to us. 712 01:04:05,218 --> 01:04:09,305 Give us Channel 83. 713 01:04:09,388 --> 01:04:11,849 Kill your partners. 714 01:04:11,933 --> 01:04:13,976 Kill them. 715 01:04:14,060 --> 01:04:18,064 Kill your partners and give us Channel 83. 716 01:04:37,041 --> 01:04:38,834 Aah. 717 01:05:57,496 --> 01:06:00,249 Give us Channel 83. 718 01:06:00,333 --> 01:06:02,585 Kill your partners. 719 01:06:02,668 --> 01:06:04,587 Kill them. 720 01:06:04,670 --> 01:06:09,300 Kill your partners and give us Channel 83. 721 01:06:11,510 --> 01:06:13,471 Hello, Max. 722 01:06:24,023 --> 01:06:25,983 How ya doin', Max? 723 01:06:34,950 --> 01:06:36,869 Where's Moses? 724 01:06:37,870 --> 01:06:41,749 He's in a meeting with Rafe. I'll tell him you want him. 725 01:06:42,833 --> 01:06:44,752 Don't. 726 01:06:54,553 --> 01:06:57,765 We dub in a funny track. Gentle comedy. 727 01:06:57,848 --> 01:07:01,602 Mm-hmm. And you'd be the one to write it? 728 01:07:01,686 --> 01:07:05,856 Yeah. Yeah, I would. I used to write in high school, then I lost it. 729 01:07:05,940 --> 01:07:08,150 Hi, Max. 730 01:07:08,234 --> 01:07:11,445 You're just in time to throw some light on an interesting problem. 731 01:07:15,074 --> 01:07:16,867 Don't. 732 01:07:25,918 --> 01:07:28,003 Max. 733 01:07:28,087 --> 01:07:31,048 What the fuck? 734 01:07:33,926 --> 01:07:36,971 Jesus! 735 01:07:37,054 --> 01:07:38,973 It was from the boardroom! 736 01:07:39,056 --> 01:07:40,975 Max, what happened? Are you hurt? 737 01:07:41,058 --> 01:07:43,018 - They killed — They — - What happened? 738 01:07:43,102 --> 01:07:46,522 - They killed us! - What happened? 739 01:07:46,605 --> 01:07:49,316 Jesus! Look out! 740 01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:52,194 Help! 741 01:07:52,278 --> 01:07:54,697 In here! In here! 742 01:07:54,780 --> 01:07:56,907 Get out! Just clear outta here! 743 01:07:56,991 --> 01:07:59,618 Come — Get out! 744 01:07:59,702 --> 01:08:01,871 Let me see. 745 01:08:04,790 --> 01:08:06,876 Max! 746 01:08:06,959 --> 01:08:08,919 Max. 747 01:08:51,504 --> 01:08:54,256 Kill Bianca O'Blivion. 748 01:08:54,340 --> 01:08:57,009 She knows too much. 749 01:08:57,092 --> 01:08:59,678 She can hurt us. 750 01:08:59,762 --> 01:09:01,806 Don't let her hurt us, Max. 751 01:09:02,807 --> 01:09:06,811 Kill her. Kill Bianca O'Blivion. 752 01:10:12,626 --> 01:10:14,920 Bianca O'Blivion. 753 01:10:15,921 --> 01:10:18,924 I run Civic TV. 754 01:10:19,008 --> 01:10:21,176 I was on a talk show with your father. 755 01:10:22,177 --> 01:10:25,097 So it was to be you after all. 756 01:10:25,180 --> 01:10:27,099 You've come to kill me. 757 01:10:27,182 --> 01:10:31,645 No. No, I'm Max Renn. I run Civic TV. I don't — 758 01:10:36,275 --> 01:10:39,695 - I don't kill people. - Oh, but you do. 759 01:10:39,778 --> 01:10:42,781 You're an assassin now for Videodrome. 760 01:10:44,158 --> 01:10:46,368 They can program you. 761 01:10:46,452 --> 01:10:49,371 They can play you like a videotape recorder. 762 01:10:49,455 --> 01:10:52,499 They can make you do what they want... 763 01:10:52,583 --> 01:10:56,211 and they want you to destroy whatever is left of Brian O'Blivion. 764 01:10:57,212 --> 01:10:59,214 They want you to destroy me. 765 01:10:59,298 --> 01:11:01,759 Destroy you? 766 01:11:30,329 --> 01:11:34,667 They killed her, Max. They killed Nicki Brand. 767 01:11:37,628 --> 01:11:40,381 She died on Videodrome. 768 01:11:40,464 --> 01:11:44,218 They used her image to seduce you, but she was already dead. 769 01:11:45,594 --> 01:11:47,721 Don't back away. 770 01:11:47,805 --> 01:11:50,975 I stole it from them just for you to see. 771 01:11:55,688 --> 01:11:58,816 Videodrome is death. 772 01:12:20,713 --> 01:12:23,424 That's better. 773 01:12:23,507 --> 01:12:26,593 So much better. 774 01:12:29,596 --> 01:12:33,017 It's always painful to remove the cassette... 775 01:12:34,018 --> 01:12:35,936 to change the program. 776 01:12:38,063 --> 01:12:40,441 But now that we have... 777 01:12:40,524 --> 01:12:44,111 you'll see that you've become something quite different from what you were. 778 01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:48,532 You've become the video word made flesh. 779 01:12:49,950 --> 01:12:52,870 I am the video word made flesh. 780 01:12:53,912 --> 01:12:57,499 And now that you are the video word made flesh... 781 01:12:58,625 --> 01:13:00,586 you know what you have to do. 782 01:13:02,755 --> 01:13:05,674 You turn against Videodrome. 783 01:13:05,758 --> 01:13:08,761 You use the weapons they've given you to destroy them. 784 01:13:10,763 --> 01:13:13,015 Death to Videodrome. 785 01:13:14,099 --> 01:13:16,643 Long live the new flesh. 786 01:13:17,770 --> 01:13:19,772 Death to Videodrome. 787 01:13:24,109 --> 01:13:26,278 Long live the new flesh. 788 01:13:38,791 --> 01:13:42,127 It was only 26 hours ago in the building you see behind me... 789 01:13:42,211 --> 01:13:44,797 that a bizarre, apparently motiveless shooting occurred... 790 01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:48,175 which has triggered off an intensive manhunt by Metro Police. 791 01:13:48,258 --> 01:13:50,945 Thirty-four-year-old Max Renn, president of the Civic TV Corporation... 792 01:13:50,969 --> 01:13:53,209 is being sought in connection with the shooting deaths... 793 01:13:53,263 --> 01:13:55,182 of two executives at Channel 83 — 794 01:13:55,265 --> 01:13:58,018 You wanna see the monkey dance, you pay the piper. 795 01:13:58,102 --> 01:14:01,522 See what I'm sayin', Teddy? You know how much my monkey's batteries cost? 796 01:14:01,605 --> 01:14:04,525 They don't last in the cold. The cold knocks 'em right out. 797 01:14:04,608 --> 01:14:07,111 I can't dance. I would if I could. 798 01:14:07,194 --> 01:14:08,987 But, uh, I can't, so — 799 01:14:09,071 --> 01:14:13,242 You got some change, Teddy? You got somethin'. Half a buck. Teddy, yeah. 800 01:14:13,325 --> 01:14:17,371 A quarter. You got somethin', Teddy. 801 01:14:17,454 --> 01:14:19,790 Can't ya put somethin' in, Teddy? 802 01:15:04,334 --> 01:15:06,253 Well, hello, sport. 803 01:15:06,336 --> 01:15:09,381 They call me Brolley. How can I help you, sir? 804 01:15:09,464 --> 01:15:12,009 - Just looking. - Yeah, man. 805 01:15:12,092 --> 01:15:14,052 Well, that's a good one. 806 01:15:14,136 --> 01:15:17,431 There ain't much to see here, but take your time and have a good look anyway. 807 01:15:17,514 --> 01:15:19,474 Ah, what this? 808 01:15:19,558 --> 01:15:23,770 Yeah, this is one hell of a scrip you got here. 809 01:15:23,854 --> 01:15:25,939 Very tricky grind. 810 01:15:26,023 --> 01:15:29,484 Can't imagine you'd see things too clear without them, you know. 811 01:15:29,568 --> 01:15:33,614 Well, don't worry at all. I'm gonna get you fixed up in no time flat. 812 01:15:47,002 --> 01:15:49,504 Where's Convex? 813 01:15:49,588 --> 01:15:51,840 Oh, setting up his trade show. 814 01:15:51,924 --> 01:15:54,676 - Oh. - Gotta introduce the spring line. 815 01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,512 - What's in the box? - Your head. 816 01:15:59,932 --> 01:16:02,851 Got your head in this box. 817 01:16:02,935 --> 01:16:04,853 Ah. 818 01:16:04,937 --> 01:16:07,356 You've been busy, Max. 819 01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:09,441 Been readin' about you in the papers. 820 01:16:11,068 --> 01:16:12,986 Have you been to see Bianca O'Blivion? 821 01:16:13,070 --> 01:16:15,530 - I saw her. - And she give you any trouble? 822 01:16:15,614 --> 01:16:17,532 No. 823 01:16:17,616 --> 01:16:19,993 Well, that's good. 824 01:16:22,246 --> 01:16:24,831 Maybe you'd like to visit somebody else now. 825 01:16:24,915 --> 01:16:27,751 - Is that why you're here? - Maybe. 826 01:16:30,462 --> 01:16:32,464 You've been very useful to us, Max. 827 01:16:32,547 --> 01:16:35,050 We'd like to keep using you until you're all gone. 828 01:16:38,887 --> 01:16:40,806 Open up to me. 829 01:16:51,024 --> 01:16:53,360 Got something I wanna play for you. 830 01:17:37,696 --> 01:17:40,115 See ya in Pittsburgh. 831 01:17:50,125 --> 01:17:54,046 Mommy, look at the big ka-boom! 832 01:17:54,129 --> 01:17:56,048 Tracey, come back here! 833 01:17:56,131 --> 01:17:58,467 - Stay with Mommy. - I want — I wanna see it. 834 01:17:58,550 --> 01:18:00,469 You come with me. 835 01:18:00,552 --> 01:18:02,679 Come on. We're going home now. 836 01:19:32,811 --> 01:19:35,480 Well, you know me. 837 01:19:35,564 --> 01:19:38,525 - Yeah, we know you. - And I sure know you. 838 01:19:38,608 --> 01:19:41,820 Every one of you! 839 01:19:45,490 --> 01:19:49,703 We're here to celebrate the arrival of our spring collection... 840 01:19:49,786 --> 01:19:51,705 the Medici line... 841 01:19:51,788 --> 01:19:56,251 and our theme for this year is based on two quotes... 842 01:19:56,334 --> 01:20:00,172 from the famous Renaissance statesman and patron of the arts... 843 01:20:00,255 --> 01:20:02,632 Lorenzo de Medici. 844 01:20:02,716 --> 01:20:04,718 "Love comes in at the eye," 845 01:20:04,801 --> 01:20:07,137 and "The eye is the window of the soul." 846 01:20:07,220 --> 01:20:10,765 Now, I think that even Pete... 847 01:20:10,849 --> 01:20:16,396 oughta be able to sell the hell out of a classy campaign like that. 848 01:20:25,530 --> 01:20:28,783 Oh, God! 849 01:20:28,867 --> 01:20:32,120 No! 850 01:20:43,006 --> 01:20:45,967 Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh! 851 01:23:47,941 --> 01:23:50,110 I was hoping you'd be back. 852 01:23:50,193 --> 01:23:52,987 I'm here to guide you, Max. 853 01:23:53,071 --> 01:23:55,990 I've learned a lot since I last saw you. 854 01:23:56,074 --> 01:23:58,952 I've learned that death is not the end. 855 01:23:59,035 --> 01:24:00,954 I can help you. 856 01:24:02,247 --> 01:24:04,499 I don't know where I am now. 857 01:24:04,582 --> 01:24:07,335 I'm having trouble... 858 01:24:07,419 --> 01:24:09,337 finding my way around. 859 01:24:09,421 --> 01:24:14,509 That's because you've gone just about as far as you can with the way things are. 860 01:24:14,592 --> 01:24:19,597 Videodrome still exists. It's very big, very complex. 861 01:24:19,681 --> 01:24:23,101 You've hurt them, but you haven't destroyed them. 862 01:24:23,184 --> 01:24:25,937 To do that, you have to go on to the next phase. 863 01:24:27,188 --> 01:24:28,690 What phase is that? 864 01:24:28,773 --> 01:24:32,068 Your body has already done a lot of changing... 865 01:24:32,152 --> 01:24:34,070 but that's only the beginning — 866 01:24:34,154 --> 01:24:38,199 the beginning of the new flesh. 867 01:24:38,283 --> 01:24:40,660 You have to go all the way now — 868 01:24:40,744 --> 01:24:43,580 a total transformation. 869 01:24:43,663 --> 01:24:45,623 Do you think you're ready? 870 01:24:47,959 --> 01:24:50,754 I guess I am. 871 01:24:50,837 --> 01:24:52,797 How do we do it? 872 01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:57,635 To become the new flesh, you first have to kill the old flesh. 873 01:24:58,678 --> 01:25:01,055 But don't be afraid. 874 01:25:01,139 --> 01:25:04,392 Don't be afraid to let your body die. 875 01:25:05,393 --> 01:25:07,353 Just come to me, Max. 876 01:25:07,437 --> 01:25:09,439 Come to Nicki. 877 01:25:10,440 --> 01:25:13,526 Watch. I'll show you how. 878 01:25:13,610 --> 01:25:15,528 It's easy. 879 01:25:43,681 --> 01:25:45,642 Long live the new flesh. 880 01:26:35,733 --> 01:26:38,111 Long live the new flesh.