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[TRAILER] Frustrated housewife Francine Fishpaw (Divine) tries to maintain her sanity while taking care of her dysfunctional household. Her husband, the owner of an adult theater, is sleeping with his secretary (Mink Stole), and her delinquent teen son, Dexter, and pregnant teen daughter, Lulu, aren't helping matters any. But when Francine meets dashing Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), the owner of a theater specializing in art films, her life appears rosier. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 25, 2024 - 6 comments

A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station. (IMDB) Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian postmodernist science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Deborah Harry. Set in Toronto in the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small television station who discovers a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. Layers of deception unfold as he uncovers the signal's source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent hallucinations. (wikipedia) [more inside]
posted by valkane on Jan 25, 2015 - 14 comments