10 Mind-Bending Thrillers That Will Melt Your Brain

6. Videodrome

David Cronenberg's explosive thriller revolves around Max Renn (James Woods), a TV executive who is disappointed with the flagging ratings of his network, and after being shown a Malaysian torture porn show called Videodrome, decides to commission similar fare for his own network.

However, Max soon discovers that Videodrome is a political movement of sorts, to allow TV to replace our everyday lives and the way we think. Max then hallucinates his torso resembling a VCR, a side-effect of watching Videodrome being that the viewer receives a brain tumour for their troubles.

Max ends up having a video-tape inserted into his torso which brainwashes him into murdering his TV network colleagues, before being told that the only solution now is to "leave the old flesh" and abandon this world, at which point he sees a video of himself blowing his head off with a gun, and then imitates it, uttering the final phrase, "Long live the new flesh".

Perhaps Cronenbeg's most decisively disturbing and mind-melting work, Videodrome is something else to behold altogether.