When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable-TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyper-violent torture show called Videodrome. His attempts to unearth the program's origins send him on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games and body modification. stars James Woods, Deborah harry. From writer-director David Cronenberg.