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Videodrome Page #4
- R
- Year:
- 1983
- 87 min
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They're all in need
of intensive psychiatric care.
Now, you seem
to be functioning reasonably well...
so far.
I'd like to find out why...
and I think an analysis
of one of your hallucinations...
would be the right place to start.
Will it hurt?
It won't hurt you.
sliding in and out...
of a hallucinatory state
after this is all over.
If you do, just relax and enjoy it.
It'll soon go away.
But for now, I think that
you'll find a little S-and-M...
will be necessary to trigger off
a good, healthy series of hallucinations.
That's why our Videodrome show is so strange.
Something to do with the effects of exposure
to violence on the nervous system.
It opens up receptors
in the brain and the spine...
and that allows
the Videodrome signal to sink in.
You mean I'm gonna have
to hurt you, Barry?
'Fraid not. You don't have
to actually hurt anybody.
You just have to think about it.
Wha-a-a -That's too bright!
I can't take it!
- Yes! I forgot! Sorry! How's that?
- Sh*t.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine.
Okay, we're rolling.
The taping mechanism
is all self-contained.
You don't have to do
anything now but hallucinate.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
I'll come back for you later.
You'll forgive me if I don't
stay around to watch.
I just can't cope with the freaky stuff.
Nicki?
- Nicki.
- Well, here we are at last...
On Videodrome.
What are you waiting for, lover?
Let's perform.
Let's open those neural floodgates.
Aah!
Aah!
Aah!
Aah!
Aah!
What's going on, Professor O'Blivion?
I mean, really.
Oh.
Oh, Masha.
Harlan...
it's Max.
Can you come over to my apartment?
Right away.
Yeah, I'm serious.
- Come on in.
- Well, here I am, patrn.
Camera. Flashgun. What's up?
You wanna be a centerfold?
I want you to go
into my bedroom...
and I want you to take a look
at what's in my bed.
Uncover it. Don't be shy.
I want pictures.
- Pictures of what's in your bed?
- Yeah. Do it.
Sure. Okay.
Oh, God.
Well?
Max.
I don't see anything.
You didn't just want me to shoot
your bed, pillows, sheets...
did you?
- It's disa -
- Max, are you in some kind of drug warp?
I've got friends who can help.
Bridey said she came by
a couple of days ago. You were-
Did you tape Videodrome
last night?
If it was transmitted,
the machine would've caught it.
I'll meet you in the lab in one hour.
I wanna see it.
- Jeez, it's not even 7:00 a.m.
- I'm not f***ing around! Do you understand?
Well, f*** you. I'm not some f***ing
servomechanism you can switch on.
You want me to run around like an a**hole,
tell me what I'm doing it for.
Otherwise, I'll see you
during office hours, patrn.
Harlan... you're right.
It's momentum. I'm runnin' like an express
train here. I don't know how to stop.
Look, I'll meet you
in the lab in one hour.
Okay? And then we'll see if we pulled in
any Videodrome last night...
and I'll tell you what's going on.
Everything. I promise.
Okay?
Okay. I'm sorry
if I freaked out on you.
- I don't work with you for the money.
- I know that.
With pirates, it's never
just for the money, is it?
You want a cup of cof- No, look.
I'll meet you in the lab in an hour.
Come on in.
Did you look at the tape?
- Did you see me on Videodrome?
- There was no tape.
There was no Videodrome
transmission last night?
Not last night.
- Aw, f***!
- Not ever.
What -What are you talking about?
I'm out of my depth now, patrn.
I had to bring in the reinforcements.
Max.
An intriguing combination.
Very interesting.
- Don't let me interrupt.
- I think I was saying something like...
"What are you talking about?"
I was playing you tapes, Max.
Prerecorded cassettes.
Videodrome has never been transmitted
on an open broadcast circuit.
Not yet.
what, two years ago?
It has been... two years,
hasn't it, Harlan?
Two. Two wonderful years.
Why?
To get you involved.
To expose you
to the Videodrome signal.
It didn't affect you because
You knew what was there.
You didn't have to see it.
It really does work
on just about anybody.
Anybody who watches it, Max.
But why would anybody watch it?
a scum show like Videodrome?
Why did you watch it, Max?
- Business reasons.
- Sure. Sure.
Why deny you get your kicks
out of watching torture and murder?
didn't you, you freak?
Did you enjoy that?
North America's getting soft, patrn.
And the rest of the world
is getting tough.
Very, very tough.
We're entering savage new times...
and we're going to have to be pure...
and direct...
and strong...
Now, you and this, uh...
cesspool you call a television station...
and, uh, your people
and, uh, your viewers...
who watch you do it -
you're rotting us away
from the inside.
We intend to stop that rot.
We're gonna start
with Channel 83, Max.
We're gonna use it for our first authentic
transmissions of Videodrome.
very popular... for a while.
I've gotta be hallucinating now, right?
I mean...
you two can't possibly be for real.
Ah, we did record
your hallucinations, Max...
as I said we would.
And we did analyze them.
You're ready for something new.
That's terrific.
What do you, uh -
What do you want from me?
I want you to open up, Max.
Open up to me.
I've got something
I want to play for you.
Oh, my God!
We want Channel 83, Max.
Give it to us.
Give us Channel 83.
Kill your partners.
Kill them.
Kill your partners
and give us Channel 83.
Aah.
Give us Channel 83.
Kill your partners.
Kill them.
Kill your partners
and give us Channel 83.
Hello, Max.
How ya doin', Max?
Where's Moses?
He's in a meeting with Rafe.
I'll tell him you want him.
Don't.
We dub in a funny track. Gentle comedy.
Mm-hmm.
And you'd be the one to write it?
Yeah. Yeah, I would. I used to write
in high school, then I lost it.
Hi, Max.
You're just in time to throw some light
on an interesting problem.
Don't.
Max.
What the f***?
Jesus!
It was from the boardroom!
Max, what happened?
Are you hurt?
- They killed -They-
- What happened?
- They killed us!
- What happened?
Jesus! Look out!
Help!
In here! In here!
Get out! Just clear outta here!
Come - Get out!
Let me see.
Max!
Max.
Kill Bianca O'Blivion.
She knows too much.
She can hurt us.
Don't let her hurt us, Max.
Kill her.
Kill Bianca O'Blivion.
Bianca O'Blivion.
I run Civic TV.
I was on a talk show
with your father.
So it was to be you after all.
You've come to kill me.
No. No, I'm Max Renn.
I run Civic TV. I don't-
- I don't kill people.
- Oh, but you do.
You're an assassin now
for Videodrome.
They can program you.
They can play you
like a videotape recorder.
They can make you do
what they want...
and they want you to destroy
whatever is left of Brian O'Blivion.
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