Though rooted in vintage tech like UHF broadcasting and videotape, Videodrome feels like the first 21st-century film. James Woods’ hustling TV programmer happens across what seems like the future of his prurient little channel: literal torture porn. But the signal unleashes hallucinations and sucks his character into a supremely bad trip. A movie about the evils of the internet made before the internet was the internet. -Lee Gardner

1983 David Cronenberg 1.85:1 Color DCP 87 min.