Videodrome [1983]
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Brian O'Blivion: The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena - the Videodrome.
Barry Convex: You'll forgive me if I don't stay around to watch. I just can't cope with the freaky stuff.
Max Renn: I'm looking for something that'll... break through. You know?
Brian O'Blivion: The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye.
Max Renn: I want you to stay away from them. Those mondo-weirdo video guys. You know, in some countries, like Argentina, making subversive video is considered a criminal act. They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh... WHO KNOWS?
Max Renn: Death to Videodrome! Long live The New flesh!
Nicki Brand: I live in a highly excited state of overstimulation.
Brian O'Blivion: Television is reality, and reality is less than television.
Brian O'Blivion: I believe that the growth in my head-this head-this one right here. I think that it is not really a tumor... not an uncontrolled, undirected little bubbling pot of flesh... but that it is in fact a new organ... a new part of the brain.
Barry Convex: I think that you'll find a little SandM will be necessary to trigger off a good healthy dose of hallucinations.
Max Renn: Have you ever heard of Videodrome?
Masha: Video what?
Max Renn: Videodrome. Like video circus, video arena.
Masha: No.
Max Renn: It's just torture and murder. No plot, no characters, very realistic. I think it's the next thing.
Masha: Then God help us all.
Max Renn: Better on T.V. than on the streets.
Brian O'Blivion: After a while, I started hallucinating, and developed a tumor. I believe the visions caused the tumor, and not the other way around.
Nicki Brand: Got any porno?
Max Renn: You serious?
Nicki Brand: Yeah. It gets me in the mood.
Nicki Brand: What's this? "Videodrome"?
Max Renn: Torture. Murder.
Nicki Brand: Sounds great.
Max Renn: Ain't exactly sex.
Nicki Brand: Says who?
Max Renn: Have you been hallucinating lately?
Max Renn: Yes, you should be.
Brian O'Blivion: After all, there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there?
Max Renn: I am the Video Word made Flesh.