The characters are bitter and hateful, the images are nauseating, and the ending is bleak enough that when the screen fades to black it's a relief.. Videodrome, whatever its qualities, has got to be one of the least entertaining films of all time.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Never coherent and frequently pretentious, the film remains an audacious attempt to place obsessive personal images before a popular audience--a kind of Kenneth Anger version of Star Wars. (Review of Original Release)

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Though Videodrome finally grows grotesque and a little confused, it begins very well and sustains its cleverness for a long while.

Janet Maslin

The New York Times