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VIDEODROME
 4K REMASTER 

DIRECTOR: David Cronenberg​

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STARRING: James Woods, Sonja Smits. Deborah Harry. Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson, Jack Creley & Lynne Gorman.

Join us for VHS Fest, a special three night film festival celebrating films that represent the classic era of VHS video.  Each night you can take a stroll through our life size VHS rental store, indulge in some retro gaming, and then enjoy a cult classic film from the era on the big screen. Tickets for individual nights are available as well as a discounted festival ticket for all three nights.

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Body horror maestro David Cronenberg, the visionary behind The Fly, Crash, Scanners and A History of Violence, delivers another iconic and idiosyncratic masterpiece of fleshy fear with Videodrome,  a nightmarish exploration of the VHS age that feels even more disturbingly relevant in the era of smartphones.

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A film about society’s addiction to screens, Videodrome’s parallels with 2026 are impossible to ignore. When Toronto television programmer Max Renn (James Woods), on the hunt for fresh material for his sleazy cable station, stumbles across an underground broadcast filled with gratuitous torture and punishment, he thinks he may have found his next big hit. But as he tracks down the show’s producers, Max finds himself drawn into a hallucinatory world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochism and bodily transformations, where the boundaries between reality and hallucination begin to dissolve.

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Starring James Woods (Once Upon a Time in America, Casino) and Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry, Videodrome remains one of the most stylish and prescient films of the 1980s. Featuring astonishing practical make-up effects from Academy Award-winning legend Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London), squalid atmospherics, and a razor-sharp vision of how screens can transcend mere entertainment to reshape reality and warp the minds of their viewers, this is essential viewing in all its darkly thrilling, premonitory Cronenbergian glory.