The Cronenberg thread

[Susan Foreman]

Test screening cards for 'Videodrome' (1983)

[gag]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Test screening cards for 'Videodrome' (1983)

And yet here we are, turns out to be some people favourite cronenberg film.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Perhaps the film was tweaked following test screenings. That is what they are for.

I went to one for The Big Lebowski ages before it opened in cinemas.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Perhaps the film was tweaked following test screenings. That is what they are for.

I went to one for The Big Lebowski ages before it opened in cinemas.

Can you remember if they changed anything from the test screening to the theatrical version?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Can you remember if they changed anything from the test screening to the theatrical version?

No idea, because i never went to see it again and it was the days when home video releases came months and months after cinema screenings.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

People just didn't get it back in the day.I certainly remember first seeing it on a chopped CIC Video rental and thinking wtf was that all about?

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Of course,older and wiser now it's a visionary masterpiece,which hilariously,has it's (then) grounbreaking technology now horribly dated!

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Best Cronenberg theme?

[MrBarlow]

Just found this, saw it on tv when i first saw Dawn of the dead in the 90s.

[marvinnashsear]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Just found this, saw it on tv when i first saw Dawn of the dead in the 90s.

Yeah, I was so excited about this being shown. They showed it before the Videodrome/Shivers premieres. Romero also talked about Dawn which they used as an intro a few weeks later. This doc is on the Arrow blu ray.