Videodrome is an excellent piece of cinema. It poses questions dealing with the morality of watching graphic violence as it relates to actively being violent. It deals with altered perception and the violation of inflicted altered perception, and it comments on the media and how blurred the line between reality and media portrayal of reality is and will become. The directing is very good and the imagery in this film conveys the story issues very well. Acting on all accounts is great with a special mention to Blondie (Deborah Harry) and James Woods. I think this film is great and really enjoy watching it, however due to the theme of altered perception Cronenburg creates for himself a directorial vehicle to pretty much do what ever he wants. I think as the film goes on the plot takes a back seat to the pursuit of weird imagery which is a little unsatisfying. The subject matter of the film is very interesting and I think maybe could have been developed a little more through the plot than it is. Having said this I do highly recommend this film.