Forging the New Flesh
Videodrome
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27m
This documentary, created for the Criterion Collection in 2004 by Toronto-area filmmaker and VIDEODROME special video effects supervisor Michael Lennick, details the painstaking production process required to create the breakthrough makeup and video effects seen in the film. Some of the footage is available only from work tapes and includes on-screen time code.
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