Nowadays drome

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"Cronenberg wondered what might happen if you picked up a strange broadcast, where events possibly illegal were taking place. What would you do? (...) Max Renn (James Woods), witnesses just such a broadcast signal, this time from a satellite station called "Videodrome." He sees a woman being tortured in a red room with clay walls. He sees only a few seconds of the transmission before static overcomes the signal. He doesn't consider the legality of the broadcast or what his ethical responsibility should be having witnessed such a horrific act. He's concerned about learning more: this might be just the sort of thing he's been looking to broadcast on his own cable television station. He knows the broadcast grabbed his attention, and if he's attracted to these extreme images, he assumes other people will be attracted as well - an egocentric attitude that serves as Max Renn's justification for becoming involved in increasingly more extreme and violent forms of sexuality."

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