1 00:00:29,821 --> 00:00:33,825 (Static) 2 00:00:36,495 --> 00:00:39,915 ♪ (Electronic) 3 00:00:42,834 --> 00:00:44,753 (Announcer) Civic TV 4 00:00:44,836 --> 00:00:46,922 the one you take to bed with you. 5 00:00:47,005 --> 00:00:50,801 Max, it's that time again: 6 00:00:50,884 --> 00:00:56,473 time to slowly, painfully ease yourself back into consciousness. 7 00:00:56,557 --> 00:00:58,600 No, I'm not a dream 8 00:00:58,684 --> 00:01:01,061 although I've been told I'm a vision of loveliness. 9 00:01:01,144 --> 00:01:03,105 - (Chuckles) - (Man chuckles) Who told you that? 10 00:01:03,188 --> 00:01:06,942 I'm nothing less than your faithful Girl Friday, Bridey James 11 00:01:07,025 --> 00:01:11,530 here with your wake-up call of today, which is Wednesday the 23rd. 12 00:01:11,613 --> 00:01:13,532 You got that? 13 00:01:13,615 --> 00:01:16,827 Wednesday the 23rd. 14 00:01:17,953 --> 00:01:19,830 And I have a message. 15 00:01:19,913 --> 00:01:22,624 Remember your meeting this morning at 6:30 16 00:01:22,708 --> 00:01:26,003 with Shinji Kuraki of Hiroshima Video. 17 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:27,796 This meeting is to take place 18 00:01:27,879 --> 00:01:32,009 at the Classic Hotel, suite 17. 19 00:01:32,092 --> 00:01:35,262 And needless to say, it's your first of the day. 20 00:01:35,345 --> 00:01:38,140 Don't you know anyone who works 9:00 to 5:00? 21 00:01:39,850 --> 00:01:41,602 Over and out, Commander. 22 00:01:43,395 --> 00:01:46,898 (Announcer) Civic TV, the one you take to bed with you. 23 00:01:47,899 --> 00:01:51,570 (Ticking) 24 00:01:56,074 --> 00:01:58,410 (Tape player clicks) 25 00:01:59,578 --> 00:02:01,997 (Sighs) 26 00:02:11,506 --> 00:02:13,467 (Moans) 27 00:03:05,268 --> 00:03:08,563 - (Man) Cindy, open the door, will ya? - (Woman) Go away. 28 00:03:08,647 --> 00:03:10,565 Come on. You know I love ya. 29 00:03:10,649 --> 00:03:12,901 - Get outta here! - Will you open the door? 30 00:03:12,984 --> 00:03:14,903 For fuck's sake, open the door! 31 00:03:14,986 --> 00:03:19,241 - (Baby crying) - I want you out of this place! 32 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:22,911 For fuck's sake, open the door! 33 00:03:22,994 --> 00:03:25,622 (Arguing) 34 00:03:25,706 --> 00:03:28,208 You just gotta open the fucking door! 35 00:03:28,333 --> 00:03:31,420 Well, I looked over the stills. 36 00:03:31,503 --> 00:03:33,422 I am interested... a little bit. 37 00:03:33,505 --> 00:03:35,465 - How many shows you got? - Thirteen. 38 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:38,760 With a possibility of another six if the sales go well. 39 00:03:38,844 --> 00:03:40,762 - You got cassettes? - Of course. 40 00:03:40,846 --> 00:03:42,597 (Both laughing) 41 00:03:49,813 --> 00:03:52,816 No, hold it. Uh, show me the last one. 42 00:03:52,899 --> 00:03:55,026 - (Speaking Japanese) - Number 13. 43 00:03:55,152 --> 00:03:58,780 But you won't understand anything. Everything is set up in the first two. 44 00:03:58,905 --> 00:04:02,367 My audience ain't gonna see the first two shows. Show me the last one. 45 00:04:03,827 --> 00:04:07,330 ♪ (Japanese) 46 00:05:04,095 --> 00:05:06,515 What do you think? 47 00:05:06,598 --> 00:05:11,019 Can we get away with it? Do we wanna get away with it? 48 00:05:11,102 --> 00:05:13,647 I think Oriental sex is a natural. 49 00:05:13,730 --> 00:05:16,733 I think it'll get us an audience we've never had before. 50 00:05:17,859 --> 00:05:20,904 I don't like it. It's not tacky enough. 51 00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:24,241 - Not tacky enough for what? - Tacky enough to turn me on. 52 00:05:25,242 --> 00:05:27,077 Too much class. Bad for sex. 53 00:05:28,411 --> 00:05:30,539 Maybe. 54 00:05:30,622 --> 00:05:33,208 I don't know. (Exhales) 55 00:05:33,291 --> 00:05:35,210 It's soft. 56 00:05:35,293 --> 00:05:37,546 Something too 57 00:05:37,629 --> 00:05:39,756 soft about it. 58 00:05:41,758 --> 00:05:45,512 I'm lookin' for something that'll break through, you know? Something 59 00:05:45,595 --> 00:05:47,848 tough. 60 00:05:57,107 --> 00:06:01,987 (Motor) 61 00:06:34,728 --> 00:06:37,272 Hey, Harlan, uh... Huh? 62 00:06:37,355 --> 00:06:39,983 Oh. Okay. 63 00:06:40,108 --> 00:06:42,277 Here we go. 64 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,279 (Clicking) 65 00:06:44,362 --> 00:06:47,449 Now, it'll come through on that. 66 00:06:47,532 --> 00:06:51,953 Now, we only got about 53 seconds, So keep your eyes open. 67 00:06:52,078 --> 00:06:57,000 They've got an unscrambler scrambler, if you know what I mean. 68 00:06:57,083 --> 00:06:58,835 It sensed that we were unscrambling 69 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,131 and, uh, automatically changed its code on us. 70 00:07:03,214 --> 00:07:05,133 What satellite is it coming from? 71 00:07:05,216 --> 00:07:07,093 - Snooker, I think. - Country of origin? 72 00:07:07,218 --> 00:07:09,054 Uh, let me see. Uh... 73 00:07:09,179 --> 00:07:12,724 Assuming 53 seconds represents the period of delay... 74 00:07:12,849 --> 00:07:15,644 I'd say somewhere, uh... 75 00:07:15,727 --> 00:07:17,771 in Malaysia? 76 00:07:18,855 --> 00:07:22,275 - (Hums) - Okay, here we go. 77 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,361 This is it. 78 00:07:25,779 --> 00:07:28,573 (Woman moaning) 79 00:07:32,619 --> 00:07:35,872 (Moaning continues) 80 00:07:38,166 --> 00:07:41,795 What is that wall behind her? What is that, clay? 81 00:07:41,878 --> 00:07:44,339 - Yeah. Wet clay. - (Sobbing, moaning) 82 00:07:44,464 --> 00:07:46,341 I think it's electrified. 83 00:07:48,009 --> 00:07:51,888 - (Moaning continues) - (Static crackling) 84 00:07:52,013 --> 00:07:54,516 (Woman screams) 85 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:02,232 (Moaning continues) 86 00:08:05,026 --> 00:08:08,571 (Loud static) 87 00:08:11,449 --> 00:08:13,410 - (Tape ejects) - That's it? 88 00:08:13,535 --> 00:08:15,870 That's it. 89 00:08:15,954 --> 00:08:19,207 - (Sighs) - Grotesque, as promised. 90 00:08:19,332 --> 00:08:21,668 Okay. Can you hang a search on it next time it... 91 00:08:21,793 --> 00:08:24,045 Already workin' on it. 92 00:08:24,129 --> 00:08:27,465 I was pretty insulted when it just shrugged us off in less than a minute. 93 00:08:27,590 --> 00:08:30,885 Well, patron, interested? 94 00:08:32,303 --> 00:08:35,640 Yeah. Hey Harlan, can you do something about these labels? 95 00:08:35,724 --> 00:08:40,687 I mean, uh, this is supposed to be a clandestine operation, know what I mean? 96 00:08:40,770 --> 00:08:42,731 Si, patron. 97 00:08:52,073 --> 00:08:54,492 You always find yourself getting nervous 98 00:08:54,576 --> 00:08:57,245 even if you've been doing it all your life, don't you think? 99 00:08:57,328 --> 00:08:59,247 (Woman) Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. 100 00:08:59,330 --> 00:09:02,667 - Course, that's part of the excitement of it. - Mm-hmm. 101 00:09:05,003 --> 00:09:07,005 Want a smoke? 102 00:09:09,007 --> 00:09:10,592 No, thanks. 103 00:09:14,387 --> 00:09:17,640 - Max, just relax. - Okay. 104 00:09:17,766 --> 00:09:22,020 (Announcer) And now, here itis... The Rena King Show. 105 00:09:22,145 --> 00:09:24,147 And this afternoon, Rena's guests are Max Renn 106 00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:28,818 controversial president of Channel 83, radio personality Nicki Brand 107 00:09:28,943 --> 00:09:31,529 and media prophet Professor Brian O'Blivion. 108 00:09:31,613 --> 00:09:33,990 Take it away, Rena. 109 00:09:34,074 --> 00:09:36,367 - (Max exhales) - Max Renn 110 00:09:36,451 --> 00:09:38,620 your television station offers its viewers 111 00:09:38,703 --> 00:09:40,914 everything from soft-core pornography 112 00:09:40,997 --> 00:09:44,000 to hard-core violence. Why? 113 00:09:44,334 --> 00:09:46,127 Well, it's a matter of economics, Rena. 114 00:09:46,211 --> 00:09:48,129 We're, uh, small. 115 00:09:48,213 --> 00:09:52,050 In order to survive, we have to give people something they can't get anywhere else 116 00:09:52,133 --> 00:09:54,219 and, uh... and we do that. 117 00:09:55,303 --> 00:09:57,472 But don't you feel such shows contribute 118 00:09:57,555 --> 00:10:01,309 to a social climate of violence and sexual malaise? 119 00:10:01,392 --> 00:10:04,312 - And do you care? - Certainly, I care. (Chuckles) 120 00:10:04,395 --> 00:10:07,607 I care enough, in fact, to give my viewers a 121 00:10:07,690 --> 00:10:11,236 a harmless outlet for their fantasies and their frustrations. 122 00:10:11,319 --> 00:10:15,115 As far as I'm concerned, that's a socially positive act. 123 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,910 What about it, Nicki? Is it socially positive? 124 00:10:19,035 --> 00:10:21,579 Well, I think we live in overstimulated times. 125 00:10:21,663 --> 00:10:23,540 We crave stimulation for its own sake. 126 00:10:23,665 --> 00:10:26,000 We gorge ourselves on it. 127 00:10:26,084 --> 00:10:30,672 We always want more, whether it's tactile, emotional or sexual 128 00:10:30,797 --> 00:10:32,215 and I think that's bad. 129 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:35,301 Then why did you wear that dress? 130 00:10:35,426 --> 00:10:38,930 - Sorry? - That dress. 131 00:10:39,055 --> 00:10:43,226 (Chuckles) It's very stimulating... and it's red. 132 00:10:44,811 --> 00:10:47,438 You know what Freud would have said about that dress. 133 00:10:47,564 --> 00:10:50,692 And he would've been right. I admit it. 134 00:10:50,817 --> 00:10:53,611 I live in a highly excited state of overstimulation. 135 00:10:55,196 --> 00:10:57,615 Listen, I'd really like to take you out to dinner tonight. 136 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:01,202 - Professor O'Blivion. - (Max) What do you think? 137 00:11:01,286 --> 00:11:04,539 Do you think erotic TV shows and violent TV shows 138 00:11:04,622 --> 00:11:06,916 lead to desensitisation 139 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,918 to dehumanisation? 140 00:11:09,002 --> 00:11:10,920 (Max, Nicki murmuring) 141 00:11:11,004 --> 00:11:16,050 The television screen has become the retina of the mind's eye. 142 00:11:16,134 --> 00:11:18,845 - (Murmuring continues) - Yes. 143 00:11:18,970 --> 00:11:21,973 That's why I refuse to appear on television 144 00:11:22,056 --> 00:11:24,475 except on television. 145 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,145 Of course, O'Blivion is not the name I was born with. 146 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:29,856 That's my television name. 147 00:11:29,939 --> 00:11:33,401 Soon all of us will have special names 148 00:11:33,484 --> 00:11:37,906 names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate. 149 00:11:37,989 --> 00:11:40,617 - Yes. - (Max) Yes, I am. Very interested. 150 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:44,871 Nicki, is Max Renn a menace to society? 151 00:11:44,996 --> 00:11:47,332 I'm not sure. 152 00:11:47,457 --> 00:11:50,043 He's certainly a menace to me. 153 00:11:51,794 --> 00:11:55,506 - (Screaming) - (Static) 154 00:11:55,632 --> 00:11:57,675 (Max) When does the plot, uh, start to unravel here? 155 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,970 I mean, who is this black guy? Is he a political prisoner? 156 00:12:02,347 --> 00:12:04,432 - There's no plot. - (Man moaning) 157 00:12:04,515 --> 00:12:06,935 It just goes on like that for an hour. 158 00:12:07,018 --> 00:12:10,063 - Goes on like what? - Like that. 159 00:12:10,146 --> 00:12:13,399 - Torture, murder - (Air hisses) 160 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,319 mutilation. 161 00:12:16,402 --> 00:12:19,572 - We never leave that room? - Nope. 162 00:12:19,656 --> 00:12:22,116 - It's a real sicko. - Brilliant. 163 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,118 - For perverts only. - It's absolutely brilliant. 164 00:12:24,202 --> 00:12:27,121 I mean, look, there's almost no production costs. 165 00:12:27,205 --> 00:12:30,083 You can't take your eyes off it. It's incredibly realistic. 166 00:12:30,208 --> 00:12:32,126 Where do they get actors who can do this? 167 00:12:32,210 --> 00:12:34,295 - Oh, help me. I think he wants it. - Come on. 168 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:37,131 It's worth checking out. 169 00:12:37,215 --> 00:12:39,467 Did you have any trouble locking onto it this time? 170 00:12:39,550 --> 00:12:43,054 Not after I realised the Malaysia delay was a plant. 171 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:48,184 - It's not coming from Malaysia? - You can't fool the Prince of Pirates for long. 172 00:12:48,268 --> 00:12:51,479 Har... Harlan, where is it coming from? 173 00:12:52,772 --> 00:12:56,276 Pittsburgh. That's in the USA. 174 00:12:57,318 --> 00:12:59,237 Pittsburgh? 175 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,074 - (Screaming continues) - Pittsburgh. 176 00:13:03,199 --> 00:13:05,994 (Nicki) Get professional help. 177 00:13:06,077 --> 00:13:08,663 (Female caller) But it's not me. It's my sister. 178 00:13:08,746 --> 00:13:11,916 It's not your sister. It's you, lover. 179 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,920 Can't you tell? Isn't that why you called me? 180 00:13:16,004 --> 00:13:19,007 You want help. You need help. 181 00:13:19,132 --> 00:13:23,261 You're going insane. I can hear you disintegrating while you talk to me. 182 00:13:25,263 --> 00:13:29,100 - I've got your number, haven't 1? - (Woman sobbing) 183 00:13:29,225 --> 00:13:31,894 I hate my sister. (Sobbing) 184 00:13:34,022 --> 00:13:37,275 I don't want to. It's ripping me up inside. 185 00:13:37,358 --> 00:13:41,070 (Sniffs) But I do. I do. 186 00:13:41,154 --> 00:13:43,239 - (Sniffles) - Will you call our distress centre? 187 00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:46,993 Will you call the CRAM Distress Centre? 188 00:13:47,076 --> 00:13:49,370 They'll tell you where to get help, lover. 189 00:13:49,454 --> 00:13:52,290 And you need it. You need it now. 190 00:13:52,415 --> 00:13:55,168 (Sobbing) I will. I will. Oh, thank you, Nicki. 191 00:13:56,461 --> 00:13:58,379 (Hangs up) 192 00:13:58,463 --> 00:14:00,381 (Announcer) We'll return to Nicki Brand 193 00:14:00,465 --> 00:14:03,384 and the Emotional Rescue show in just a moment. 194 00:14:03,468 --> 00:14:07,472 This is CRAM in Toronto, and we've got the weather for you. 195 00:14:10,141 --> 00:14:12,769 - Got any porno? - You serious? 196 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:15,396 Yeah. Gets me in the mood. 197 00:14:19,525 --> 00:14:21,569 What's this? "Videodrome". 198 00:14:21,652 --> 00:14:23,863 - Torture, murder. - (Chuckles) 199 00:14:23,946 --> 00:14:25,782 Sounds great. 200 00:14:25,907 --> 00:14:28,242 Ain't exactly sex. 201 00:14:29,369 --> 00:14:31,079 Says who? 202 00:14:35,416 --> 00:14:38,795 (Splashing) 203 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,924 (Screaming) 204 00:14:43,049 --> 00:14:45,968 - God, I can't believe it. - I'll turn it off. 205 00:14:46,052 --> 00:14:48,846 No, no, no. It's okay. I can take it. 206 00:14:48,971 --> 00:14:51,432 - (Flogging continues) - (Woman sobbing) 207 00:14:52,975 --> 00:14:55,228 Can you get it any clearer? 208 00:14:55,353 --> 00:14:58,022 It's a pirate tape. They scramble it. 209 00:14:58,147 --> 00:15:01,234 - (Moaning continues) - I like it. 210 00:15:01,317 --> 00:15:04,779 - Yeah? - Yeah, it turns me on. 211 00:15:07,156 --> 00:15:10,159 Take out your Swiss Army knife and cut me here 212 00:15:10,243 --> 00:15:12,161 just a little. 213 00:15:12,245 --> 00:15:14,497 Looks like somebody's beat me to it. 214 00:15:16,374 --> 00:15:18,960 (Screaming) 215 00:15:21,546 --> 00:15:24,132 I wonder how you get to be a contestant on this show. 216 00:15:25,216 --> 00:15:29,053 I don't know. Nobody ever seems to come back next week. 217 00:15:29,137 --> 00:15:31,556 What did you say happened to your shoulder? 218 00:15:32,557 --> 00:15:35,560 A friend. I think he'd like Videodrome. 219 00:15:37,061 --> 00:15:40,314 - You let somebody cut you? - Uh-huh. 220 00:15:40,398 --> 00:15:43,568 - (Screaming continues) - What do you think? 221 00:15:44,735 --> 00:15:47,280 Well, I-I don't know. 222 00:15:47,405 --> 00:15:50,491 You wanna try a few things? 223 00:16:02,753 --> 00:16:04,839 (Nicki exhales) 224 00:16:06,549 --> 00:16:08,551 (Sighing) 225 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:28,779 Oh. 226 00:16:34,118 --> 00:16:36,162 Oh. 227 00:17:05,149 --> 00:17:07,318 (Moaning) 228 00:17:34,011 --> 00:17:36,180 (Sighs) 229 00:17:38,516 --> 00:17:40,685 (Chuckles) 230 00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:57,910 (Nicki moaning) 231 00:17:59,704 --> 00:18:02,415 (Max moaning) 232 00:18:43,289 --> 00:18:48,252 (Chattering on TVs) 233 00:18:54,258 --> 00:18:58,012 Max, thank God. Masha Borowczyk has been in your office for an hour. 234 00:18:58,095 --> 00:19:00,014 - Masha. - What were you doing last night? 235 00:19:00,097 --> 00:19:02,516 - Didn't you get my message? - I don't think I'm ready for this. 236 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,354 - Coffee. Cigarette. Office. Masha. Go. - All right. Masha. 237 00:19:06,437 --> 00:19:09,690 - She's hot to trot. - (Chattering on TVs continues) 238 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,694 (Masha) I call it 239 00:19:13,778 --> 00:19:16,447 Apollo and Dionysus. 240 00:19:20,618 --> 00:19:22,828 (Max) Masha, does it ever get good? 241 00:19:22,953 --> 00:19:25,831 It's all good. 242 00:19:25,956 --> 00:19:28,334 - (Laughing) - Darling 243 00:19:28,417 --> 00:19:31,712 I am looking for something a lot more 244 00:19:31,796 --> 00:19:34,006 contemporary. 245 00:19:34,090 --> 00:19:38,260 I want something that's gonna show people what's really goin' on under the sheets. 246 00:19:38,344 --> 00:19:41,555 This stuff is too... it's too naive. 247 00:19:41,639 --> 00:19:43,683 It's too sweet, like you, darling. 248 00:19:50,773 --> 00:19:54,151 Well, it's your market. 249 00:19:57,238 --> 00:19:59,699 Do you know a show called Videodrome? 250 00:19:59,782 --> 00:20:02,493 - Video-what? - D-R-O-M-E. 251 00:20:02,618 --> 00:20:05,746 Videodrome, like video circus, video arena. 252 00:20:05,830 --> 00:20:08,541 - You know it? - No. 253 00:20:08,624 --> 00:20:10,543 It's just torture and murder. 254 00:20:10,626 --> 00:20:14,463 No plot, no characters. Very, very realistic. 255 00:20:14,547 --> 00:20:17,466 I think it's what's next. 256 00:20:17,550 --> 00:20:19,427 Then God help us. 257 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:22,680 - (Knocking) - Better on TV than on the street. 258 00:20:25,933 --> 00:20:27,935 Arnold on line three. 259 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:30,312 You interested in, uh, tracking it down for me? 260 00:20:30,396 --> 00:20:32,356 I'll see that you get the agent's commission. 261 00:20:32,481 --> 00:20:36,068 I'm interested. Let me try. 262 00:20:38,028 --> 00:20:40,448 Max, 263 00:20:40,531 --> 00:20:42,616 did you ever think 264 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:44,702 of producing your own show? 265 00:20:44,827 --> 00:20:46,829 Right here? 266 00:20:48,122 --> 00:20:50,124 I could be your agent 267 00:20:50,207 --> 00:20:52,126 worldwide. 268 00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:55,671 I could sell subterranean for you everywhere. 269 00:20:55,755 --> 00:20:58,924 - No, I don't have the temperament. - But if you did 270 00:21:00,468 --> 00:21:03,012 what kind of show would you do? 271 00:21:03,095 --> 00:21:06,849 I mean, for the subterranean market. 272 00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:10,770 Would you do... Videodrome? 273 00:21:12,188 --> 00:21:14,148 (Nicki) Max. 274 00:21:14,231 --> 00:21:18,360 - Mm-hmm. - I'm goin' away tomorrow for two weeks 275 00:21:18,444 --> 00:21:20,571 on assignment. 276 00:21:21,572 --> 00:21:24,158 Guess where? 277 00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:26,410 L.A. 278 00:21:26,535 --> 00:21:29,830 - Pittsburgh. - (Chuckles) Fabulous. 279 00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:34,043 Don't stay in the sun too long. I hear it's bad for the skin. 280 00:21:34,168 --> 00:21:37,171 Oh, come on. Isn't that where they make Videodrome? 281 00:21:37,296 --> 00:21:39,840 Yeah. Why? 282 00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:43,427 I'm gonna audition. 283 00:21:45,012 --> 00:21:46,972 I was made for that show. 284 00:21:47,056 --> 00:21:49,975 Nobody on earth was made for that show. 285 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:54,939 Hey. Listen to me. 286 00:21:57,942 --> 00:21:59,610 - Listen to me. - What? 287 00:21:59,693 --> 00:22:01,362 I want you to stay away from it. 288 00:22:01,445 --> 00:22:04,073 Those mondo weirdo video guys, they've got unsavoury connections. 289 00:22:04,156 --> 00:22:07,284 They play rough, rougher than even Nicki Brand wants to play. 290 00:22:07,368 --> 00:22:09,411 Do you understand me? 291 00:22:09,495 --> 00:22:11,455 Sounds like a challenge. 292 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,424 Got a cigarette? 293 00:22:25,094 --> 00:22:26,679 It's not a challenge. 294 00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:31,350 I swear. You know, in Brazil, Central America, those kinds of places 295 00:22:31,475 --> 00:22:35,938 making underground video is considered a subversive act. 296 00:22:36,021 --> 00:22:39,483 They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh, who knows? 297 00:22:45,072 --> 00:22:46,991 (Pouring) 298 00:22:48,993 --> 00:22:50,995 Max. 299 00:22:59,503 --> 00:23:02,006 Nicki, don't! 300 00:23:16,937 --> 00:23:18,856 Nicki, don't. 301 00:23:23,944 --> 00:23:26,113 Don't. 302 00:23:37,041 --> 00:23:40,753 ♪ (Percussion) 303 00:23:40,836 --> 00:23:43,797 ♪ (Middle Eastern) 304 00:24:08,739 --> 00:24:11,784 ♪ (Continues) 305 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:24,380 - Do you have a hangover? - No. Stayed up late watching TV. 306 00:24:25,631 --> 00:24:28,509 Did you get in touch with our friends in Pittsburgh? 307 00:24:28,592 --> 00:24:32,012 In a way. At a distance. 308 00:24:32,096 --> 00:24:33,973 - Subterranean grapevine. - And? 309 00:24:35,683 --> 00:24:37,810 Max, 310 00:24:37,893 --> 00:24:41,271 Videodrome is something for you to leave alone. 311 00:24:41,397 --> 00:24:45,567 It is definitely not for public consumption. 312 00:24:45,651 --> 00:24:50,030 (Chuckles) Channel 83 is a little small to be considered public. 313 00:24:50,114 --> 00:24:52,366 It is still too public. 314 00:24:52,449 --> 00:24:55,244 - Do you understand me? - No. What's the punch line? 315 00:24:56,328 --> 00:24:59,206 I think it's dangerous, Max, Videodrome. 316 00:24:59,289 --> 00:25:02,459 - Why? It's Mafia? They do business. - No, no. 317 00:25:02,543 --> 00:25:06,422 It's more, um - How can I say? 318 00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:08,382 More political than that. 319 00:25:09,758 --> 00:25:13,721 - Come on, Masha. What are we talkin' about? - Videodrome. 320 00:25:13,804 --> 00:25:16,306 What you see on that show 321 00:25:16,390 --> 00:25:18,142 it's for real. 322 00:25:18,225 --> 00:25:22,730 It's not acting. It's snuff TV. 323 00:25:22,813 --> 00:25:24,398 I don't believe it. 324 00:25:24,523 --> 00:25:27,151 - ♪ (Stops) - (Whistling) 325 00:25:27,276 --> 00:25:30,904 So don't believe. 326 00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:32,698 Why do it for real? 327 00:25:32,823 --> 00:25:36,035 It's easier and safer to fake it. 328 00:25:36,118 --> 00:25:38,537 Because it has something 329 00:25:38,662 --> 00:25:40,998 that you don't have, Max. 330 00:25:41,123 --> 00:25:42,833 It has a philosophy 331 00:25:42,958 --> 00:25:47,254 - and that is what makes it dangerous. - Whose philosophy? 332 00:25:49,423 --> 00:25:52,092 There must be a name. 333 00:25:52,176 --> 00:25:55,804 Give me a name I can talk to. Masha, Masha, you know me. 334 00:25:55,929 --> 00:25:58,390 I stay away from the scary stuff. 335 00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:04,521 Max, 336 00:26:04,605 --> 00:26:08,067 you are going to have to be nice to me for this. 337 00:26:08,192 --> 00:26:12,279 We can take a shower together, anytime you say. 338 00:26:12,404 --> 00:26:15,115 (Chuckling) 339 00:26:15,199 --> 00:26:19,620 I'm sure you would be very beautiful 340 00:26:19,703 --> 00:26:23,999 but, uh, you're a little older than I prefer. 341 00:26:24,958 --> 00:26:27,044 Thank you 342 00:26:27,169 --> 00:26:29,880 SO much. 343 00:26:35,886 --> 00:26:37,805 Sell me a name 344 00:26:37,888 --> 00:26:40,307 and I'll make Apollo and Dionysus part of the package. 345 00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:43,185 (Sighs) 346 00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:45,646 That hurts me, Max. 347 00:26:45,729 --> 00:26:48,107 Hey, the world's a shithole, ain't it? 348 00:26:51,401 --> 00:26:53,195 Yes, Max. 349 00:26:53,278 --> 00:26:55,239 Itis. 350 00:27:00,786 --> 00:27:03,330 Brian O'Blivion. 351 00:27:03,413 --> 00:27:05,833 That is the only name I have to give. 352 00:27:05,958 --> 00:27:09,711 Professor Brian O'Blivion. 353 00:27:14,967 --> 00:27:16,927 (Woman) Wait, where you goin'? Come back here. 354 00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:19,429 Hey. Hey, buddy. Got a fag? 355 00:27:19,513 --> 00:27:22,432 - (Man) Are they goin' in now? - Got a cigarette? 356 00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:26,520 (Indistinct muttering) 357 00:27:26,603 --> 00:27:29,565 - Gotta have a smoke and a cup of coffee. - (Woman) Wait a minute. 358 00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:32,943 (Woman) They don't serve coffee there. They just serve piss water. 359 00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:38,532 (Muttering) I don't need to put up with this shit. I'm a young woman. 360 00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:43,245 Take a good look at me. I'm a good-lookin' woman. I got nice tits. 361 00:27:43,370 --> 00:27:45,330 (Man) Let's go. 362 00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:48,292 (Muttering continues) 363 00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:51,295 (TV, indistinct) 364 00:27:51,378 --> 00:27:54,298 (Woman Greeter) Hello. Move along. 365 00:27:54,381 --> 00:27:57,301 (Greeter continues, indistinct) 366 00:28:00,971 --> 00:28:03,390 (Female derelict) Move out of my way! 367 00:28:03,473 --> 00:28:06,393 Hello. Straight down the hallway. 368 00:28:09,771 --> 00:28:12,691 Keep on. Straight down the hallway. 369 00:28:12,774 --> 00:28:15,694 Keep going, keep going. 370 00:28:17,321 --> 00:28:19,948 Come on. Step along. 371 00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:02,324 - Bianca O'Blivion? - Yes. 372 00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:05,619 I'm Max Renn. I, uh - I run Civic TV. 373 00:29:05,702 --> 00:29:09,498 I did a panel show with Prof. O'Blivion. The Rena King Show. 374 00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:12,501 Oh, yes. You said some very superficial things. 375 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:14,962 Violence, sex, imagination, catharsis. 376 00:29:15,045 --> 00:29:17,005 - My exact words. - What do you want? 377 00:29:17,130 --> 00:29:19,466 I wanna talk with your father 378 00:29:19,549 --> 00:29:22,761 about a new twist in video that he may not be aware of. 379 00:29:44,449 --> 00:29:46,868 I love the view. 380 00:29:46,994 --> 00:29:50,872 You look like them, like one of Father's derelicts. 381 00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:53,625 (Chuckles) Think it's a style that's coming back. 382 00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:57,212 In their case, Mr. Renn, it's not a style. 383 00:29:57,296 --> 00:30:01,550 It's a disease forced on them by their lack of access to the cathode ray tube. 384 00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:03,885 You think a few doses of TV are gonna help them? 385 00:30:04,011 --> 00:30:08,890 Watching TV will help patch them back into the world's mixing board. 386 00:30:08,974 --> 00:30:11,018 Absolutely. 387 00:30:12,936 --> 00:30:17,065 And I guess you encourage Father's derelicts to make home movies? 388 00:30:17,149 --> 00:30:19,151 The world's mixing board? 389 00:30:19,234 --> 00:30:22,529 Professor O'Blivion sends video letters all over the world. 390 00:30:22,612 --> 00:30:26,283 - Is the Professor here? - I am my father's screen. 391 00:30:34,458 --> 00:30:39,212 Once you've told me what this visit is all about, he may choose to send you a cassette. 392 00:30:39,296 --> 00:30:41,548 If he does, which format would you like? 393 00:30:41,631 --> 00:30:44,217 If he does, it's gonna make conversation a little difficult. 394 00:30:45,302 --> 00:30:49,097 My father has not engaged in conversation for at least 20 years. 395 00:30:49,181 --> 00:30:52,642 The monologue is his preferred mode of discourse. 396 00:30:53,852 --> 00:30:55,729 Format. 397 00:30:57,439 --> 00:30:59,566 Videodrome. 398 00:30:59,649 --> 00:31:02,110 Is that a Japanese configuration? 399 00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:06,615 - You've never heard of it? - No. 400 00:31:06,740 --> 00:31:10,077 Then there have been serious gaps in your education. 401 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,579 - Videodrome. - ♪ (Chiming) 402 00:31:12,662 --> 00:31:16,666 Mention it to your father. He may want to have a conversation. 403 00:31:16,792 --> 00:31:20,754 (Chuckling) I love the view. 404 00:31:25,592 --> 00:31:27,469 (Door closes) 405 00:31:35,644 --> 00:31:39,439 (Harlan) Torture, murder, mutilation. 406 00:31:39,523 --> 00:31:41,691 (Masha) Videodrome. 407 00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:44,444 What you see on that show 408 00:31:44,528 --> 00:31:46,571 it's for real. 409 00:31:46,655 --> 00:31:48,782 (Nicki) I'm gonna audition. 410 00:31:48,865 --> 00:31:50,951 I was made for that show. 411 00:31:51,034 --> 00:31:56,373 (Masha) It has something that you don't have, Max. 412 00:31:56,456 --> 00:32:01,086 It has a philosophy, and that is what makes it dangerous. 413 00:32:24,651 --> 00:32:26,736 (Knocking) 414 00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:47,716 Hi. This is your wake-up cassette 415 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:50,343 and this came to the office for you by courier. 416 00:32:50,427 --> 00:32:53,180 - What did they say at CRAM? - They said that Nicki Brand 417 00:32:53,263 --> 00:32:55,515 is definitely not on assignment for them. 418 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,018 She had a month off coming. She decided to take it now.. 419 00:32:58,101 --> 00:33:00,103 Don't touch that! 420 00:33:02,189 --> 00:33:03,940 (Grunts) 421 00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:06,359 (Grunts) 422 00:33:06,485 --> 00:33:08,987 Jesus, Max, you scared me. 423 00:33:12,532 --> 00:33:14,868 What the hell's wrong with you? 424 00:33:14,951 --> 00:33:18,163 I don't know, man. I think I'm gettin', like, a rash or somethin'. 425 00:33:18,288 --> 00:33:21,458 - Uh - - What? 426 00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:24,878 Are you all right? Bridey, I didn't mean to hit you. 427 00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:26,963 Hit me? 428 00:33:27,964 --> 00:33:29,758 You didn't hit me. 429 00:33:29,883 --> 00:33:34,179 No? No. No, I know I didn't hit you. I meant... 430 00:33:35,805 --> 00:33:38,642 - (Exhales) - Do you want me to stay here? 431 00:33:39,809 --> 00:33:42,729 - Uh... - You look awful. 432 00:33:42,812 --> 00:33:45,190 - Can I get you something? - Uh, no, uh... 433 00:33:45,315 --> 00:33:47,734 No, I'm just, uh... 434 00:33:47,817 --> 00:33:50,362 Uh, I'm... 435 00:33:50,445 --> 00:33:54,491 (Exhales) I'm exhausted. I was in a deep sleep when you knocked 436 00:33:54,574 --> 00:33:56,910 and I guess I'm still not out of it. 437 00:33:56,993 --> 00:33:58,912 I'll remember to set the timer. Don't worry. 438 00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:00,914 - You're sure? Are you sure? - I'm sure. Yeah. 439 00:34:00,997 --> 00:34:02,916 Thanks, Bridey. Tomorrow. 440 00:34:02,999 --> 00:34:05,502 Max, that other cassette is from the office of Brian O'Blivion. 441 00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:09,256 I promised I'd hand-deliver it directly to you. 442 00:34:09,339 --> 00:34:11,925 Will you call me if you need me? 443 00:34:26,856 --> 00:34:28,358 - (Sighs) - (Gasps) 444 00:35:05,478 --> 00:35:09,024 (Tape loads, clicks) 445 00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:13,153 The battle for the mind of North America 446 00:35:13,236 --> 00:35:16,031 will be fought in the video arena: 447 00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:17,991 the Videodrome. 448 00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:23,163 The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. 449 00:35:23,246 --> 00:35:27,709 Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. 450 00:35:27,834 --> 00:35:32,797 Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen 451 00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:37,469 emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. 452 00:35:37,552 --> 00:35:41,306 Therefore, television is reality 453 00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:44,601 and reality is less than television. 454 00:35:44,726 --> 00:35:47,395 - (Chuckles) - Max. 455 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,733 I'm so glad you came to me. 456 00:35:51,858 --> 00:35:54,527 I've been through it all myself, you see. 457 00:35:56,029 --> 00:36:01,034 Your reality is already half video hallucination. 458 00:36:01,117 --> 00:36:05,664 If you're not careful, it will become total hallucination. 459 00:36:05,789 --> 00:36:10,960 You'll have to learn to live in a very strange new world. 460 00:36:11,044 --> 00:36:12,962 I had a brain tumour 461 00:36:13,088 --> 00:36:15,048 and I had visions. 462 00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:19,886 I believed the visions caused the tumour 463 00:36:19,969 --> 00:36:22,389 and not the reverse. 464 00:36:22,472 --> 00:36:28,269 I could feel the visions coalesce and become flesh. 465 00:36:28,353 --> 00:36:31,523 Uncontrollable flesh. 466 00:36:32,816 --> 00:36:34,984 But when they removed the tumour 467 00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:38,613 it was called Videodrome. 468 00:36:40,323 --> 00:36:42,158 I was the - 469 00:36:42,283 --> 00:36:44,744 (Choking) I... 1... 470 00:36:44,828 --> 00:36:47,789 was Videodrome's 471 00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:50,667 first victim. 472 00:36:51,751 --> 00:36:53,795 But who's behind it? What do they want? 473 00:36:55,839 --> 00:36:57,882 I want you, Max. 474 00:36:59,259 --> 00:37:01,636 You. 475 00:37:04,514 --> 00:37:06,391 Come to me. 476 00:37:08,017 --> 00:37:10,186 Come to Nicki. 477 00:37:11,563 --> 00:37:13,440 Come on. 478 00:37:13,565 --> 00:37:16,359 Don't make me wait. 479 00:37:20,405 --> 00:37:22,532 Please. 480 00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:30,999 (Breathing) 481 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,257 (Nicki moaning) 482 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:47,557 (Breathing deeply) 483 00:37:52,437 --> 00:37:56,566 (Nicki moans) I want you, Max. 484 00:37:56,649 --> 00:37:58,568 You. 485 00:38:00,779 --> 00:38:02,822 Come on. 486 00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:07,118 - Come on. - (Breathing continues) 487 00:38:11,956 --> 00:38:14,292 Come to me now. 488 00:38:15,418 --> 00:38:17,670 Come to Nicki. 489 00:38:17,796 --> 00:38:21,549 - (Breathing continues) - Don't keep me waiting. 490 00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:23,635 Please. 491 00:38:27,597 --> 00:38:29,599 Please. 492 00:38:42,278 --> 00:38:45,198 (Siren Wails) 493 00:38:45,323 --> 00:38:47,492 J 494 00:38:47,617 --> 00:38:51,579 (Announcer) Today Lady Luck may smile on these fourplayers 495 00:38:51,663 --> 00:38:54,082 and start them on the road to $12,000... 496 00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:56,376 We have a new group of people coming in this afternoon 497 00:38:56,459 --> 00:38:59,546 - so tell the staff about that. - All right. Good. 498 00:38:59,629 --> 00:39:01,548 (TV audience cheering) 499 00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:04,342 (TV noise continues) 500 00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:14,352 Exciting. Very lively. 501 00:39:14,435 --> 00:39:16,855 Careful. It bites. 502 00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:24,988 - You watched the cassette? - Yeah. 503 00:39:25,071 --> 00:39:26,656 - And? - It changed my life. 504 00:39:26,781 --> 00:39:29,075 I'm not surprised. It's dangerous, you know. 505 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,662 Because your father admits he's somehow involved with Videodrome? 506 00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:37,208 More than that. It bites. Isn't that what you said? 507 00:39:37,292 --> 00:39:39,127 What kind of teeth do you think it has? 508 00:39:39,252 --> 00:39:43,172 It triggered off a series of hallucinations. I woke up with a headache. 509 00:39:43,256 --> 00:39:46,759 - First time ever? - No, I... I've been hallucinating for a while 510 00:39:46,843 --> 00:39:48,803 - ever since - - What? 511 00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:54,475 Since I first saw Videodrome. 512 00:39:56,352 --> 00:39:58,271 How did you come to be exposed to it? 513 00:39:58,396 --> 00:40:01,482 Pirate satellite dish. 514 00:40:01,566 --> 00:40:04,819 A... An accident. 515 00:40:04,903 --> 00:40:06,821 I made some tapes. 516 00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:08,865 This is part of my own Videodrome collection. 517 00:40:08,990 --> 00:40:11,659 But that tape is just your father sitting at his desk. 518 00:40:11,784 --> 00:40:17,665 The tone of the hallucinations is determined by the tone of the tape's imagery. 519 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:20,960 But the Videodrome signal, the one that does the damage 520 00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:24,839 it can be delivered under a test pattern, anything. 521 00:40:24,964 --> 00:40:26,925 Mmm. 522 00:40:29,385 --> 00:40:31,262 Damage? 523 00:40:31,387 --> 00:40:34,557 The signal induces a brain tumour in the viewer. 524 00:40:35,642 --> 00:40:38,102 It's the tumour that creates the hallucinations. 525 00:40:38,227 --> 00:40:40,563 You let me watch it? 526 00:40:40,647 --> 00:40:44,692 I expect them to come to me eventually to hurt me. I thought it might be you. 527 00:40:46,069 --> 00:40:48,655 Now I realise you're just another victim 528 00:40:48,738 --> 00:40:50,657 like Father was. 529 00:40:50,782 --> 00:40:55,119 Where is your father? I think I'd better talk to him. 530 00:40:55,203 --> 00:40:57,705 He's in there. 531 00:40:58,957 --> 00:41:01,376 ♪ (Chiming) 532 00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:03,962 I'm afraid he'll disappoint you. 533 00:41:09,801 --> 00:41:11,970 This is him. 534 00:41:12,053 --> 00:41:15,264 - This is all that's left. - What are you talking about? 535 00:41:15,348 --> 00:41:20,311 Brian O'Blivion died quietly on an operating table 11 months ago. 536 00:41:20,395 --> 00:41:24,691 - The brain problem? - The Videodrome problem. 537 00:41:24,774 --> 00:41:28,945 - You have it too. - But he was on that panel show with me. 538 00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:31,698 On tape. He made thousands of them. 539 00:41:31,781 --> 00:41:34,492 Sometimes three or four a day. 540 00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:36,869 I keep him alive as best I can. 541 00:41:36,953 --> 00:41:38,955 He had so much to offer. 542 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,125 My father helped to create Videodrome. 543 00:41:42,208 --> 00:41:47,005 He saw it as the next phase in the evolution of man as a technological animal. 544 00:41:47,088 --> 00:41:50,216 When he realised what his partners were going to use it for 545 00:41:50,299 --> 00:41:52,260 he tried to take it away from them. 546 00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:56,222 And they killed him. Quietly. 547 00:41:56,347 --> 00:41:59,600 At the end, he was convinced that public life on television 548 00:41:59,684 --> 00:42:03,354 was more real than private life in the flesh. 549 00:42:03,438 --> 00:42:06,149 He wasn't afraid to let his body die. 550 00:42:08,109 --> 00:42:10,069 (Sighs) 551 00:42:11,779 --> 00:42:14,032 Tell me about my Videodrome problem. 552 00:42:15,116 --> 00:42:17,994 My father knows much more about it than I do. 553 00:42:18,077 --> 00:42:19,912 Listen to him. 554 00:42:26,586 --> 00:42:28,880 Where's Harlan? He's not in the lab. 555 00:42:28,963 --> 00:42:32,508 - I think he's up in V.T.R. Max... - Not now. 556 00:42:35,470 --> 00:42:37,722 - Harlan. - Si, patron. 557 00:42:37,805 --> 00:42:40,641 Have you been hallucinating lately? 558 00:42:40,725 --> 00:42:42,894 No. 559 00:42:42,977 --> 00:42:45,855 - Should I be? - Yes. 560 00:42:45,938 --> 00:42:47,857 You should be. 561 00:42:51,235 --> 00:42:53,237 I believe 562 00:42:53,321 --> 00:42:56,324 that the growth in my head... 563 00:42:56,407 --> 00:43:00,286 this head, this one right here... 564 00:43:00,411 --> 00:43:04,207 I think that it is not really a tumour 565 00:43:04,290 --> 00:43:08,711 not an uncontrolled, undirected little bubbling pot of flesh 566 00:43:08,795 --> 00:43:11,714 but that it is in fact 567 00:43:11,839 --> 00:43:14,300 a new organ 568 00:43:14,383 --> 00:43:16,969 a new part of the brain. 569 00:43:17,053 --> 00:43:21,390 I think that massive doses of Videodrome signal 570 00:43:21,474 --> 00:43:25,394 will ultimately create a new outgrowth 571 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,022 of the human brain 572 00:43:28,147 --> 00:43:31,984 which will produce and control hallucination 573 00:43:32,068 --> 00:43:36,030 to the point that it will change human reality. 574 00:43:36,114 --> 00:43:38,991 After all, there is nothing real 575 00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:42,453 outside our perception of reality 576 00:43:42,537 --> 00:43:44,455 is there? 577 00:43:44,539 --> 00:43:46,457 (Chuckling) 578 00:43:46,541 --> 00:43:49,335 You can see that, can't you? 579 00:45:25,097 --> 00:45:27,350 (Phone rings) 580 00:45:30,853 --> 00:45:32,813 (Rings) 581 00:45:33,856 --> 00:45:36,025 - (Man) Max Renn? - Yes. 582 00:45:36,108 --> 00:45:37,735 Who is this? 583 00:45:37,818 --> 00:45:41,155 Barry Convex would like to talk to you about Videodrome. 584 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,908 I've got a car waiting downstairs for you, sir. 585 00:46:22,738 --> 00:46:26,951 Please direct your attention to the television set in front of you, Mr. Renn. 586 00:46:27,034 --> 00:46:30,955 Mr. Convex has recorded a little introduction for you. 587 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:32,999 (Tape clicks) 588 00:46:33,124 --> 00:46:36,252 ♪ (Electronic) 589 00:46:42,341 --> 00:46:46,595 Hi, I'm Barry Convex, Chief of Special Programmes 590 00:46:46,679 --> 00:46:50,599 and I'd like to invite you into the world of Spectacular Optical 591 00:46:50,683 --> 00:46:53,894 an enthusiastic global corporate citizen. 592 00:46:54,979 --> 00:46:57,023 We make inexpensive glasses for the Third World 593 00:46:57,106 --> 00:46:59,442 and missile guidance systems for NATO. 594 00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:02,903 We also make Videodrome, Max 595 00:47:03,029 --> 00:47:05,114 and as I'm sure you know 596 00:47:05,197 --> 00:47:09,201 when it's ready for the marketplace, things will never be quite the same again. 597 00:47:10,286 --> 00:47:14,582 It can be a giant hallucination machine and much, much more. 598 00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:19,837 But it's not ready. Those were test transmissions you picked up. 599 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,881 We thought nobody could tap into them. 600 00:47:22,006 --> 00:47:26,260 He's good, that Harlan. Good pirate. 601 00:47:27,386 --> 00:47:29,638 Well, now that you have 602 00:47:29,722 --> 00:47:32,683 I think we oughta have a little talk, don't you? 603 00:47:32,767 --> 00:47:35,686 I thought maybe... my place? 604 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,341 (Chuckles) 605 00:48:47,425 --> 00:48:49,969 (Convex) I hope you realise you're playing with dynamite. 606 00:48:51,178 --> 00:48:54,515 That's our spring line. Top secret stuff. 607 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:59,270 I brought it with me for a trade show here in town later this week. 608 00:48:59,353 --> 00:49:02,481 Max Renn, I'm Barry Convex. 609 00:49:07,653 --> 00:49:09,530 I think that machinery you're wearing is 610 00:49:09,655 --> 00:49:11,699 too much for the shape of your face. 611 00:49:11,824 --> 00:49:13,784 Overwhelms you. 612 00:49:13,868 --> 00:49:17,288 Try something more, uh, spidery 613 00:49:17,413 --> 00:49:19,415 more delicate. 614 00:49:22,710 --> 00:49:25,963 Here she is. This is our prototype. 615 00:49:26,046 --> 00:49:29,884 This is the little number that started it all. 616 00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:33,387 Max, 617 00:49:33,471 --> 00:49:37,308 I would like you to try this on for sise. 618 00:49:37,391 --> 00:49:42,646 I would like to use this machine to record one of your hallucinations now. 619 00:49:42,730 --> 00:49:46,817 Then I would like to take that tape back with me to home base for analysis. 620 00:49:48,194 --> 00:49:50,112 Do I get to keep the copyright? 621 00:49:50,196 --> 00:49:54,325 I mean, I'd hate to see it show up as a Movie of the Week and not get paid for it. 622 00:49:54,408 --> 00:49:56,285 Max, I'm trying to help you. 623 00:49:56,410 --> 00:49:58,579 What makes you think I need help, Barry? 624 00:49:58,704 --> 00:50:04,251 None of our test subjects has returned to normality. 625 00:50:04,335 --> 00:50:06,962 They're all in need of intensive psychiatric care. 626 00:50:08,547 --> 00:50:11,425 Now, you seem to be functioning reasonably well 627 00:50:11,509 --> 00:50:13,427 so far. 628 00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:16,138 I'd like to find out why 629 00:50:16,222 --> 00:50:18,599 and I think an analysis of one of your hallucinations 630 00:50:18,682 --> 00:50:21,519 would be the right place to start. 631 00:50:24,855 --> 00:50:26,774 Will it hurt? 632 00:50:26,857 --> 00:50:28,984 It won't hurt you. 633 00:50:29,068 --> 00:50:31,153 You might catch yourself sliding in and out 634 00:50:31,237 --> 00:50:33,364 of a hallucinatory state after this is all over. 635 00:50:33,447 --> 00:50:37,368 If you do, just relax and enjoy it. It'll soon go away. 636 00:50:37,451 --> 00:50:40,996 But for now, I think that you'll find a little SandM 637 00:50:41,121 --> 00:50:45,584 will be necessary to trigger off a good, healthy series of hallucinations. 638 00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:49,421 - (Beeping) - That's why our Videodrome show is so strange. 639 00:50:49,505 --> 00:50:53,592 Something to do with the effects of exposure to violence on the nervous system. 640 00:50:53,676 --> 00:50:56,178 It opens up receptors in the brain and the spine 641 00:50:56,262 --> 00:50:58,889 and that allows the Videodrome signal to sink in. 642 00:50:58,973 --> 00:51:01,141 You mean I'm gonna have to hurt you, Barry? 643 00:51:01,267 --> 00:51:04,520 'Fraid not. You don't have to actually hurt anybody. 644 00:51:04,603 --> 00:51:06,814 You just have to think about it. 645 00:51:06,897 --> 00:51:09,650 (Humming) 646 00:51:13,195 --> 00:51:15,406 (Humming loudly) 647 00:51:15,531 --> 00:51:17,575 Wha... That's too bright! I can't take it! 648 00:51:17,658 --> 00:51:20,077 - Yes! I forgot! Sorry! How's that? - Shit. 649 00:51:20,202 --> 00:51:23,372 - (Humming) - (Max) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. 650 00:51:29,420 --> 00:51:32,089 Okay, we're rolling. 651 00:51:32,214 --> 00:51:34,508 The taping mechanism is all self-contained. 652 00:51:34,592 --> 00:51:37,845 You don't have to do anything now but hallucinate. 653 00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:39,847 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 654 00:51:44,351 --> 00:51:46,312 I'll come back for you later. 655 00:51:48,772 --> 00:51:52,901 You'll forgive me if I don't stay around to watch. 656 00:51:52,985 --> 00:51:55,904 I just can't cope with the freaky stuff. 657 00:52:44,578 --> 00:52:46,580 (Max) Nicki? 658 00:52:48,415 --> 00:52:54,004 - Nicki. - Well, here we are at last 659 00:52:54,088 --> 00:52:57,132 right where we oughta be: 660 00:52:57,216 --> 00:52:59,301 on Videodrome. 661 00:53:12,815 --> 00:53:15,734 What are you waiting for, lover? 662 00:53:15,818 --> 00:53:17,861 Let's perform. 663 00:53:17,945 --> 00:53:20,656 Let's open those neural floodgates. 664 00:53:28,372 --> 00:53:32,126 (Breathing heavily, moaning) 665 00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:42,428 (Nicki gasps) 666 00:53:45,973 --> 00:53:47,933 Aah! 667 00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:52,980 Aah! 668 00:53:56,150 --> 00:53:58,152 (Shouts) 669 00:54:02,197 --> 00:54:06,702 (Moaning) 670 00:54:06,785 --> 00:54:09,121 Aah! 671 00:54:09,204 --> 00:54:11,957 (Gasping) 672 00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,376 Aah! 673 00:54:14,501 --> 00:54:16,462 (Gasping) 674 00:54:19,798 --> 00:54:22,426 - Aah! - (Panting) 675 00:54:34,688 --> 00:54:37,816 What's going on, Professor O'Blivion? (Chuckles) 676 00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:39,943 I mean, really. 677 00:54:40,027 --> 00:54:42,321 Oh. 678 00:54:57,336 --> 00:54:59,838 (Gasps) 679 00:55:11,683 --> 00:55:13,894 Oh, Masha. 680 00:55:22,694 --> 00:55:24,696 (Exhales) 681 00:55:47,761 --> 00:55:49,680 Harlan 682 00:55:49,763 --> 00:55:51,682 it's Max. 683 00:55:51,765 --> 00:55:54,852 Can you come over to my apartment? Right away. 684 00:55:54,935 --> 00:55:56,770 Yeah, I'm serious. 685 00:55:58,230 --> 00:56:01,191 - Come on in. - Well, here I am, patron. 686 00:56:01,275 --> 00:56:04,736 Camera. Flashgun. What's up? You wanna be a centrefold? 687 00:56:04,820 --> 00:56:06,738 I want you to go into my bedroom 688 00:56:06,822 --> 00:56:09,032 and I want you to take a look at what's in my bed. 689 00:56:09,116 --> 00:56:11,618 Uncover it. Don't be shy. I want pictures. 690 00:56:14,663 --> 00:56:17,666 - Pictures of what's in your bed? - Yeah. Do it. 691 00:56:19,459 --> 00:56:21,795 Sure. Okay. 692 00:56:24,464 --> 00:56:26,341 Oh, God. 693 00:56:40,439 --> 00:56:42,774 (Exhales) 694 00:56:42,900 --> 00:56:44,526 Well? 695 00:56:48,196 --> 00:56:50,157 Max. 696 00:56:53,577 --> 00:56:55,495 I don't see anything. 697 00:56:56,580 --> 00:56:59,917 You didn't just want me to shoot your bed, pillows, sheets 698 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,461 did you? 699 00:57:11,845 --> 00:57:15,307 - It's disa... - Max, are you in some kind of drug warp? 700 00:57:16,308 --> 00:57:20,103 I've got friends who can help. Bridey said she came by a couple of days ago. You were... 701 00:57:20,187 --> 00:57:22,397 Did you tape Videodrome last night? 702 00:57:22,481 --> 00:57:24,399 If it was transmitted, the machine would've caught it. 703 00:57:24,483 --> 00:57:26,485 I'll meet you in the lab in one hour. I wanna see it. 704 00:57:26,568 --> 00:57:30,530 - Jeez, it's not even 7:00 a.m. - I'm not fucking around! Do you understand? 705 00:57:30,656 --> 00:57:34,284 Well, fuck you. I'm not some fucking servomechanism you can switch on. 706 00:57:34,368 --> 00:57:38,163 You want me to run around like an asshole, tell me what I'm doing it for. 707 00:57:38,288 --> 00:57:40,248 Otherwise, I'll see you during office hours, patron. 708 00:57:40,332 --> 00:57:43,293 Harlan, you're right. 709 00:57:43,377 --> 00:57:47,130 It's momentum. I'm runnin' like an express train here. I don't know how to stop. 710 00:57:47,214 --> 00:57:49,675 Look, I'll meet you in the lab in one hour. 711 00:57:49,758 --> 00:57:53,261 Okay? And then we'll see if we pulled in any Videodrome last night 712 00:57:53,345 --> 00:57:55,263 and I'll tell you what's going on. 713 00:57:55,347 --> 00:57:58,100 Everything. I promise. Okay? 714 00:57:58,183 --> 00:58:01,812 Okay. I'm sorry if I freaked out on you. 715 00:58:01,895 --> 00:58:05,273 - I don't work with you for the money. - I know that. 716 00:58:05,357 --> 00:58:07,818 With pirates, it's never just for the money, is it? 717 00:58:07,901 --> 00:58:12,322 You want a cup of cof... No, look. I'll meet you in the lab in an hour. 718 00:58:53,363 --> 00:58:55,282 Come on in. 719 00:58:56,408 --> 00:59:00,162 - (Door closes) - Did you look at the tape? 720 00:59:00,287 --> 00:59:04,583 - Did you see me on Videodrome? - There was no tape. 721 00:59:04,708 --> 00:59:07,377 There was no Videodrome transmission last night? 722 00:59:07,502 --> 00:59:09,379 Not last night. 723 00:59:09,504 --> 00:59:11,923 - Aw, fuck! - Not ever. 724 00:59:14,468 --> 00:59:16,344 What... what are you talking about? 725 00:59:17,429 --> 00:59:19,347 (Knocking at door) 726 00:59:20,891 --> 00:59:23,393 I'm out of my depth now, patron. 727 00:59:23,477 --> 00:59:26,021 I had to bring in the reinforcements. 728 00:59:35,155 --> 00:59:36,948 Max. 729 00:59:38,617 --> 00:59:42,287 An intriguing combination. Very interesting. 730 00:59:43,288 --> 00:59:46,208 - Don't let me interrupt. - I think I was saying something like 731 00:59:46,291 --> 00:59:49,044 "What are you talking about?" 732 00:59:49,127 --> 00:59:51,046 I was playing you tapes, Max. 733 00:59:52,089 --> 00:59:53,673 Prerecorded cassettes. 734 00:59:55,509 --> 00:59:59,221 Videodrome has never been transmitted on an open broadcast circuit. 735 00:59:59,346 --> 01:00:01,181 Not yet. 736 01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:03,934 I guess Barry sent you here, what, two years ago? 737 01:00:04,017 --> 01:00:08,605 It has been... two years, hasn't it, Harlan? 738 01:00:08,688 --> 01:00:12,359 Two. Two wonderful years. 739 01:00:12,484 --> 01:00:14,653 Why? 740 01:00:17,489 --> 01:00:19,616 (Exhales) 741 01:00:19,699 --> 01:00:22,035 To get you involved. 742 01:00:23,620 --> 01:00:25,872 To expose you to the Videodrome signal. 743 01:00:27,624 --> 01:00:30,043 It didn't affect you because you never watched it! 744 01:00:32,212 --> 01:00:34,756 You knew what was there. You didn't have to see it. 745 01:00:34,881 --> 01:00:39,594 (Chuckles) It really does work on just about anybody. 746 01:00:39,719 --> 01:00:41,930 Anybody who watches it, Max. 747 01:00:42,931 --> 01:00:44,891 But why would anybody watch it? 748 01:00:46,434 --> 01:00:50,397 Why would anybody watch a scum show like Videodrome? 749 01:00:51,606 --> 01:00:53,817 Why did you watch it, Max? 750 01:00:53,900 --> 01:00:58,572 - Business reasons. - Sure. Sure. 751 01:00:59,990 --> 01:01:02,159 What about the other reasons? 752 01:01:02,242 --> 01:01:06,121 Why deny you get your kicks out of watching torture and murder? 753 01:01:06,246 --> 01:01:08,915 You murdered Brian O'Blivion, didn't you, you freak? 754 01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,376 Did you enjoy that? 755 01:01:19,509 --> 01:01:21,970 North America's getting soft, patron. 756 01:01:22,095 --> 01:01:25,390 And the rest of the world is getting tough. 757 01:01:25,515 --> 01:01:27,475 Very, very tough. 758 01:01:28,643 --> 01:01:31,354 We're entering savage new times 759 01:01:31,438 --> 01:01:34,608 and we're going to have to be pure 760 01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:36,735 and direct 761 01:01:36,818 --> 01:01:39,321 and strong 762 01:01:39,404 --> 01:01:41,323 if we're gonna survive them. 763 01:01:41,406 --> 01:01:44,034 Now, you and this, uh 764 01:01:46,286 --> 01:01:50,040 cesspool you call a television station 765 01:01:50,123 --> 01:01:52,876 and, uh, your people who wallow around in it 766 01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:55,795 and, uh, your viewers 767 01:01:55,879 --> 01:01:57,797 who watch you do it... 768 01:01:59,216 --> 01:02:02,219 you're rotting us away from the inside. 769 01:02:04,012 --> 01:02:06,223 We intend to stop that rot. 770 01:02:06,348 --> 01:02:09,476 We're gonna start with Channel 83, Max. 771 01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:13,730 We're gonna use it for our first authentic transmissions of Videodrome. 772 01:02:13,813 --> 01:02:17,776 I have a hunch it's gonna be very popular... for a while. 773 01:02:17,901 --> 01:02:20,362 I've gotta be hallucinating now, right? 774 01:02:20,445 --> 01:02:22,948 I mean 775 01:02:23,031 --> 01:02:25,158 you two can't possibly be for real. 776 01:02:26,785 --> 01:02:29,496 Ah, we did record your hallucinations, Max 777 01:02:29,621 --> 01:02:31,665 as I said we would. 778 01:02:33,291 --> 01:02:35,293 And we did analyse them. 779 01:02:37,420 --> 01:02:39,506 You're ready for something new. 780 01:02:39,631 --> 01:02:41,424 That's terrific. 781 01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,680 (Breathing) 782 01:02:48,932 --> 01:02:52,269 What do you, uh - What do you want from me? 783 01:02:52,394 --> 01:02:54,521 I want you to open up, Max. 784 01:02:54,646 --> 01:02:56,690 Open up to me. 785 01:02:58,858 --> 01:03:01,653 (Breathing continues) 786 01:03:11,079 --> 01:03:12,956 I've got something I want to play for you. 787 01:03:13,081 --> 01:03:15,959 (Breathing continues) 788 01:03:17,252 --> 01:03:19,170 Oh, my God! 789 01:03:37,063 --> 01:03:39,024 (Coughs) 790 01:03:46,531 --> 01:03:49,326 (Convex) We want Channel 83, Max. 791 01:03:49,409 --> 01:03:51,995 - (Grunting) - Give it to us. 792 01:03:52,078 --> 01:03:56,166 Give us Channel 83. 793 01:03:56,249 --> 01:03:58,710 Kill your partners. 794 01:03:58,793 --> 01:04:00,837 Kill them. 795 01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:04,924 Kill your partners and give us Channel 83. 796 01:04:05,008 --> 01:04:07,510 (Grunts, exhales) 797 01:04:14,893 --> 01:04:17,979 (Grunting) 798 01:04:23,860 --> 01:04:25,695 Aah. 799 01:04:36,247 --> 01:04:38,625 (Squishing) 800 01:04:54,307 --> 01:04:56,559 (Gasps) 801 01:05:44,357 --> 01:05:47,110 (Convex) Give us Channel 83. 802 01:05:47,193 --> 01:05:49,446 Kill your partners. 803 01:05:49,529 --> 01:05:51,448 Kill them. 804 01:05:51,531 --> 01:05:56,119 Kill your partners and give us Channel 83. 805 01:05:56,244 --> 01:05:58,288 (TV noise) 806 01:05:58,371 --> 01:06:00,331 Hello, Max. 807 01:06:02,709 --> 01:06:04,878 (Office workers chattering) 808 01:06:10,884 --> 01:06:12,844 (Man) How ya doin', Max? 809 01:06:21,811 --> 01:06:23,730 Where's Moses? 810 01:06:24,731 --> 01:06:28,610 He's in a meeting with Rafe. I'll tell him you want him. 811 01:06:29,694 --> 01:06:31,613 Don't. 812 01:06:31,696 --> 01:06:33,907 (TV noise continues) 813 01:06:38,244 --> 01:06:41,289 (Phone rings) 814 01:06:41,414 --> 01:06:44,626 (Man) We dub in a funny track. Gentle comedy. 815 01:06:44,709 --> 01:06:48,463 Mm-hmm. And you'd be the one to write it? 816 01:06:48,546 --> 01:06:52,675 Yeah. Yeah, I would. I used to write inhigh school, then I lost it. 817 01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:55,011 Hi, Max. 818 01:06:55,094 --> 01:06:58,306 You're just in time to throw some light on an interesting problem. 819 01:07:01,893 --> 01:07:03,645 Don't. 820 01:07:12,737 --> 01:07:14,864 Max. 821 01:07:14,948 --> 01:07:17,825 What the fuck? 822 01:07:20,787 --> 01:07:23,748 (Man) Jesus! 823 01:07:23,873 --> 01:07:25,833 (Man It was from the boardroom! 824 01:07:25,917 --> 01:07:27,835 Max, what happened? Are you hurt? 825 01:07:27,919 --> 01:07:29,879 - They killed... They... - (Gasps) What happened? 826 01:07:29,963 --> 01:07:33,383 - They killed us! - What happened? 827 01:07:33,466 --> 01:07:36,177 - Jesus! Look out! - (Woman Screams) 828 01:07:36,261 --> 01:07:39,055 (Woman) Help! 829 01:07:39,138 --> 01:07:41,474 In here! In here! 830 01:07:41,599 --> 01:07:43,768 Get out! Just clear outta here! 831 01:07:43,851 --> 01:07:46,479 Come... Get out! 832 01:07:46,563 --> 01:07:48,731 Let me see. 833 01:07:48,815 --> 01:07:51,568 (Office workers screaming) 834 01:07:51,651 --> 01:07:53,736 Max! 835 01:07:53,820 --> 01:07:55,697 Max. 836 01:08:38,364 --> 01:08:41,117 (Convex) Kill Bianca O'Blivion. 837 01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:43,870 She knows too much. 838 01:08:43,953 --> 01:08:46,539 She can hurt us. 839 01:08:46,623 --> 01:08:48,583 Don't let her hurt us, Max. 840 01:08:49,667 --> 01:08:53,671 Kill her. Kill Bianca O'Blivion. 841 01:08:53,755 --> 01:08:58,259 (Aeroplane passes) 842 01:09:46,391 --> 01:09:48,351 (Lock unlatches) 843 01:09:48,434 --> 01:09:50,520 - (Clock chiming) - (Door closes) 844 01:09:50,603 --> 01:09:53,272 (Footsteps) 845 01:09:59,487 --> 01:10:01,781 Bianca O'Blivion. 846 01:10:02,740 --> 01:10:05,785 I run Civic TV. 847 01:10:05,868 --> 01:10:07,954 I was on a talk show with your father. 848 01:10:09,038 --> 01:10:11,958 So it was to be you after all. 849 01:10:12,041 --> 01:10:13,960 You've come to kill me. 850 01:10:14,043 --> 01:10:18,506 No. No, I'm Max Renn. I run Civic TV. I don't... 851 01:10:23,136 --> 01:10:26,556 - I don't kill people. - Oh, but you do. 852 01:10:26,639 --> 01:10:29,559 You're an assassin now for Videodrome. 853 01:10:31,018 --> 01:10:33,229 They can programme you. 854 01:10:33,312 --> 01:10:36,232 They can play you like a videotape recorder. 855 01:10:36,315 --> 01:10:39,360 They can make you do what they want 856 01:10:39,444 --> 01:10:42,989 and they want you to destroy whatever is left of Brian O'Blivion. 857 01:10:44,073 --> 01:10:46,033 They want you to destroy me. 858 01:10:46,159 --> 01:10:48,536 Destroy you? 859 01:11:04,135 --> 01:11:09,474 (Cassette loads) 860 01:11:17,148 --> 01:11:21,444 (Bianca) They killed her, Max. They killed Nicki Brand. 861 01:11:24,447 --> 01:11:27,158 She died on Videodrome. 862 01:11:27,283 --> 01:11:30,995 They used her image to seduce you, but she was already dead. 863 01:11:32,455 --> 01:11:34,499 Don't back away. 864 01:11:34,624 --> 01:11:37,835 I stole it from them just for you to see. 865 01:11:37,919 --> 01:11:39,962 (Tape player clicking) 866 01:11:42,507 --> 01:11:45,593 Videodrome is death. 867 01:11:57,063 --> 01:11:59,649 (Gunshots) 868 01:12:07,573 --> 01:12:10,284 That's better. 869 01:12:10,368 --> 01:12:13,371 So much better. 870 01:12:16,457 --> 01:12:19,794 It's always painful to remove the cassette 871 01:12:20,878 --> 01:12:22,797 to change the programme. 872 01:12:24,924 --> 01:12:27,301 But now that we have 873 01:12:27,385 --> 01:12:30,888 you'll see that you've become something quite different from what you were. 874 01:12:32,181 --> 01:12:35,393 You've become the video word made flesh. 875 01:12:36,811 --> 01:12:39,730 (Exhales) I am the video word made flesh. 876 01:12:40,773 --> 01:12:44,277 And now that you are the video word made flesh 877 01:12:45,486 --> 01:12:47,446 you know what you have to do. 878 01:12:49,615 --> 01:12:52,535 You turn against Videodrome. 879 01:12:52,618 --> 01:12:55,621 You use the weapons they've given you to destroy them. 880 01:12:57,623 --> 01:12:59,876 Death to Videodrome. 881 01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,421 Long live the new flesh. 882 01:13:04,630 --> 01:13:06,632 Death to Videodrome. 883 01:13:10,970 --> 01:13:13,139 Long live the new flesh. 884 01:13:25,651 --> 01:13:28,988 (TV Reporter) It was only 26 hours ago in the building you see behind me 885 01:13:29,071 --> 01:13:31,657 that a bizarre, apparently motiveless shooting occurred 886 01:13:31,741 --> 01:13:34,952 which has triggered off an intensive manhunt by Metro Police. 887 01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:37,747 Thirty-four-year-old Max Renn, president of the Civic TV Corporation 888 01:13:37,830 --> 01:13:40,041 is being sought in connection with the shooting deaths 889 01:13:40,124 --> 01:13:42,043 of two executives at Channel 83... 890 01:13:42,126 --> 01:13:44,795 You wanna see the monkey dance, you pay the piper. 891 01:13:44,921 --> 01:13:48,299 See what I'm sayin', Teddy? You know how much my monkey's batteries cost? 892 01:13:48,424 --> 01:13:51,302 They don't last in the cold. The cold knocks 'em right out. 893 01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:53,930 I can't dance. I would if I could. 894 01:13:54,055 --> 01:13:55,848 But, uh, I can't, so - 895 01:13:55,932 --> 01:14:00,102 You got some change, Teddy? You got somethin'. Half a buck. Teddy, yeah. 896 01:14:00,186 --> 01:14:04,231 - A quarter. You got somethin', Teddy. - (Bus rumbling) 897 01:14:04,315 --> 01:14:06,567 Can't ya put somethin' in, Teddy? 898 01:14:51,195 --> 01:14:53,114 Well, hello, sport. 899 01:14:53,197 --> 01:14:56,242 They call me Brolley. How can I help you, sir? 900 01:14:56,325 --> 01:14:58,869 - Just looking. - (Chuckles) Yeah, man. 901 01:14:58,953 --> 01:15:00,913 Well, that's a good one. 902 01:15:00,997 --> 01:15:04,291 There ain't much to see here, but take your time and have a good look anyway. 903 01:15:04,375 --> 01:15:06,335 Ah, what this? 904 01:15:06,419 --> 01:15:10,631 Yeah, this is one hell of a scrip you got here. 905 01:15:10,715 --> 01:15:12,800 Very tricky grind. 906 01:15:12,883 --> 01:15:16,345 Can't imagine you'd see things too clear without them, you know. 907 01:15:16,429 --> 01:15:20,474 Well, don't worry at all. I'm gonna get you fixed up in no time flat. 908 01:15:20,558 --> 01:15:22,977 (Tape unpeeling) 909 01:15:33,863 --> 01:15:36,365 (Exhales) Where's Convex? 910 01:15:36,449 --> 01:15:38,701 Oh, setting up his trade show. 911 01:15:38,784 --> 01:15:41,537 - Oh. - Gotta introduce the spring line. 912 01:15:41,620 --> 01:15:44,373 - What's in the box? - Your head. 913 01:15:44,457 --> 01:15:46,709 - (Chuckling) - (Chuckles) 914 01:15:46,792 --> 01:15:49,712 - Got your head in this box. - (Both laughing) 915 01:15:49,795 --> 01:15:51,714 Ah. 916 01:15:51,797 --> 01:15:54,216 You've been busy, Max. 917 01:15:54,300 --> 01:15:56,302 Been readin' about you in the papers. 918 01:15:57,928 --> 01:15:59,847 Have you been to see Bianca O'Blivion? 919 01:15:59,930 --> 01:16:02,391 - I saw her. - And she give you any trouble? 920 01:16:02,475 --> 01:16:04,393 No. 921 01:16:04,477 --> 01:16:06,771 Well, that's good. 922 01:16:09,106 --> 01:16:11,692 Maybe you'd like to visit somebody else now. 923 01:16:11,776 --> 01:16:14,528 - Is that why you're here? - Maybe. 924 01:16:17,323 --> 01:16:19,325 You've been very useful to us, Max. 925 01:16:19,408 --> 01:16:21,827 We'd like to keep using you until you're all gone. 926 01:16:21,952 --> 01:16:24,330 (Tape breathing) 927 01:16:25,748 --> 01:16:27,666 Open up to me. 928 01:16:33,089 --> 01:16:36,801 (Breathing continues) 929 01:16:37,885 --> 01:16:40,137 Got something I wanna play for you. 930 01:16:40,262 --> 01:16:43,307 (Breathing continues) 931 01:16:43,432 --> 01:16:45,392 - (Gasps) - (Squishing) 932 01:17:00,282 --> 01:17:05,287 - (Screams) - (Ticking) 933 01:17:08,999 --> 01:17:13,337 (Shuddering) 934 01:17:13,462 --> 01:17:16,173 (Whimpering) 935 01:17:16,298 --> 01:17:19,552 - (Ticking) - (Screaming) 936 01:17:24,557 --> 01:17:26,892 See ya in Pittsburgh. 937 01:17:27,017 --> 01:17:29,937 (Screams) 938 01:17:34,150 --> 01:17:36,902 (Dog barking) 939 01:17:36,986 --> 01:17:40,906 (Child) Mommy, look at the big ka-boom! 940 01:17:40,990 --> 01:17:42,908 Tracey, come back here! 941 01:17:42,992 --> 01:17:45,327 - Stay with Mommy. - I want... I wanna see it. 942 01:17:45,411 --> 01:17:47,329 You come with me. 943 01:17:47,413 --> 01:17:49,456 Come on. We're going home now. 944 01:17:52,418 --> 01:17:54,587 (Crowd chattering) 945 01:17:56,380 --> 01:18:00,926 - ♪ (Baroque on synthesiser) - (Chattering continues) 946 01:18:12,771 --> 01:18:16,317 ♪ (Continues) 947 01:18:33,125 --> 01:18:36,587 ♪ (Continues) 948 01:19:07,284 --> 01:19:10,162 (Applause) 949 01:19:12,122 --> 01:19:14,166 (Applause continues) 950 01:19:19,672 --> 01:19:22,341 Well, you know me. 951 01:19:22,424 --> 01:19:25,386 - (Man) Yeah, we know you. - And I sure know you. 952 01:19:25,469 --> 01:19:28,597 - Every one of you! - (Applause) 953 01:19:32,351 --> 01:19:36,480 We're here to celebrate the arrival of our spring collection 954 01:19:36,605 --> 01:19:38,565 the Medici line 955 01:19:38,649 --> 01:19:43,112 and our theme for this year is based on two quotes 956 01:19:43,195 --> 01:19:47,032 from the famous Renaissance statesman and patron of the arts 957 01:19:47,116 --> 01:19:49,493 Lorenzo de Medici. 958 01:19:49,576 --> 01:19:51,578 "Love comes in at the eye", 959 01:19:51,662 --> 01:19:53,956 and "The eye is the window of the soul". 960 01:19:54,081 --> 01:19:57,626 Now, I think that even Pete 961 01:19:57,710 --> 01:20:03,173 oughta be able to sell the hell out of a classy campaign like that. 962 01:20:03,299 --> 01:20:07,219 (Applause) 963 01:20:08,804 --> 01:20:10,472 (Gasps) 964 01:20:12,349 --> 01:20:15,602 (Panting) Oh, God! 965 01:20:15,728 --> 01:20:18,981 - (Chatter rin - No! 9 966 01:20:20,190 --> 01:20:23,319 - (Gunshots) - (Grunting) 967 01:20:23,444 --> 01:20:25,654 - (Woman screams) - (Gunshot) 968 01:20:25,738 --> 01:20:29,700 - (Audience screaming) - (Choking) 969 01:20:29,825 --> 01:20:32,786 Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh! 970 01:20:32,911 --> 01:20:36,206 - (Feedback) - (Gagging continues) 971 01:20:43,505 --> 01:20:46,175 (Feedback continues) 972 01:20:52,890 --> 01:20:55,351 (Gagging) 973 01:22:13,637 --> 01:22:16,181 (Dripping) 974 01:23:34,801 --> 01:23:36,887 I was hoping you'd be back. 975 01:23:37,012 --> 01:23:39,848 I'm here to guide you, Max. 976 01:23:39,932 --> 01:23:42,851 I've learned a lot since I last saw you. 977 01:23:42,935 --> 01:23:45,812 I've learned that death is not the end. 978 01:23:45,896 --> 01:23:47,731 I can help you. 979 01:23:49,107 --> 01:23:51,360 I don't know where I am now. 980 01:23:51,443 --> 01:23:54,196 I'm having trouble 981 01:23:54,279 --> 01:23:56,156 finding my way around. 982 01:23:56,281 --> 01:24:01,370 That's because you've gone just about as far as you can with the way things are. 983 01:24:01,453 --> 01:24:06,458 Videodrome still exists. It's very big, very complex. 984 01:24:06,542 --> 01:24:09,962 You've hurt them, but you haven't destroyed them. 985 01:24:10,045 --> 01:24:12,714 To do that, you have to go on to the next phase. 986 01:24:14,049 --> 01:24:15,467 What phase is that? 987 01:24:15,592 --> 01:24:18,929 Your body has already done a lot of changing 988 01:24:19,012 --> 01:24:20,889 but that's only the beginning... 989 01:24:21,014 --> 01:24:24,977 the beginning of the new flesh. 990 01:24:25,102 --> 01:24:27,521 You have to go all the way now - 991 01:24:27,604 --> 01:24:30,440 a total transformation. 992 01:24:30,524 --> 01:24:32,401 Do you think you're ready? 993 01:24:34,820 --> 01:24:37,614 I guess I am. 994 01:24:37,698 --> 01:24:39,575 How do we do it? 995 01:24:40,701 --> 01:24:44,413 To become the new flesh, you first have to Kill the old flesh. 996 01:24:45,539 --> 01:24:47,833 But don't be afraid. 997 01:24:47,958 --> 01:24:51,253 Don't be afraid to let your body die. 998 01:24:52,254 --> 01:24:54,214 Just come to me, Max. 999 01:24:54,298 --> 01:24:56,300 Come to Nicki. 1000 01:24:57,301 --> 01:25:00,387 Watch. I'll show you how. 1001 01:25:00,470 --> 01:25:02,306 It's easy. 1002 01:25:30,542 --> 01:25:32,419 Long live the new flesh. 1003 01:25:55,859 --> 01:25:57,903 (Jacket unzips) 1004 01:26:22,594 --> 01:26:24,888 Long live the new flesh. 1005 01:26:25,013 --> 01:26:27,808 (Gunshot)