Chewing The Scenery Horror Movie Podcast

Episode 82 continues the year-by-year march through the 80’s with David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome”. Was this actually from ’83 as some sources say or ’82 as other sources say? "Who’s counting?” we say! Ah, 1982, back when a young James Woods already looked 40. Those kind of looks make it easy to be both funny and sleazy. You know what else is funny? Jolyon’s DVD copy of “Videodrome” that is packaged to look just like a Betamax videotape! Before the discussion of reality vs. hallucination gets underway, Will asks the age-old question “What if a slasher movie had a bear in it?” Well, it would be “Grizzly” (1976) and you’d want to destroy it with a rocket-launcher! With a little help, Richard notices that the fantastic world of “Videodrome” is now our mundane reality, with screens full of extreme content virtually everywhere. And Will wonders if these young people will ever get out of their phones long enough to do drugs and have sex. You know, like they did in the bad old days when there were only lik