Movie Music Archives #012: “Videodrome”
There’s too much for me to say about David Cronenberg’s 1982 film in the time I have today to get this off, so suffice it to say that it speaks to me in a way that few other sci-fi films do, or indeed any of his other films do. Howard Shore’s score for the film is a deeply integral part of why it all works: its liquid synthiness approximates orchestral dread very, very clearly. Shore’s work perfectly compliments James Woods’ descent into madness, the psychosexual tension between him and Debbie Harry, and Cronenberg’s thesis of the 20th century video image as “the retina of the mind’s eye”, as the character Prof. Brian O’ Blivion states in the film.