10 Body Horror Movies That Broke All The Rules
5. Videodrome
Three years before he wowed everyone with The Fly, David Cronenberg delivered a body horror film which, if not the genre's best, is most probably its weirdest.
Videodrome follows Max Renn (James Woods), the president of a small TV station who discovers the titular broadcast signal displaying a continuous feed of violence and torture, which ultimately causes viewers to witness increasingly disturbing hallucinations.
In Max's case, these visions generally involve his own mutilation, such as developing a large slit on his stomach within which a Betamax tape can be inserted, while one of his hands turns into a "flesh gun."
That's not to ignore perhaps the most grotesque moment in the entire movie, when Max murders Videodrome's producer Barry Convex (Leslie Carlson) and tumours horrifically burst from his body, ripping him to pieces.
For a genre that is envelope-pushing in even its mildest forms, this was something else.