The Movie: James Woods stars as Max Renn, an unscrupulous TV producer desperate for some new material for his sensationalist channel who comes across what appears to be snuff movies of people being tortured and murdered. David Cronenberg, the master (some might say originator) of the body horror genre, pulls no punches, and before long Videodrome dives headlong into a surreal world in which Renn experiences graphic and unsettling hallucinations. The Gory Death: If you thought the exploding head in Cronenberg's film Scanners was pretty gruesome, the death of criminal mastermind Barry Convex takes things a few steps further. After Max Renn shoots him with what can only be described as a very unusual gun, he collapses to the ground and proceeds to turn inside out, a screaming, writhing mess of blood, guts and brains. Nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdOnUtHamko
