Editing Videodrome (section)

===Filming===
The film was shot in Toronto from October 27 to December 23, 1981, on a budget of $5,952,000 ({{Inflation|CA|5,952,000|1981|fmt=eq}}), with the financing equally coming from Canada and the United States. 50% of the film's budget came from Universal.{{sfn|Turner|1987|p=377-378}} The initial week of filming being devoted to videotaping various [[Video monitor|monitor inserts]]. These included the television monologues of Professor Brian O'Blivion, as well as the ''Videodrome'' torture scenes and the soft-core pornographic programs ''Samurai Dreams'' and ''Apollo & Dionysus''.<ref name=lucascriterion>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/676-medium-cruel-reflections-on-videodrome|title=Medium Cruel: Reflections on Videodrome|first=Tim |last=Lucas|author-link=Tim Lucas|date=2004|website=Criterion.com|publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]]|access-date=December 7, 2010}}</ref> The video camera used for the monitor scenes was a Hitachi SK-91.{{Sfn|Lucas|1983|p=36}} The film's cinematography was handled by [[Mark Irwin]], who was very uncomfortable with doing the monitor scenes; he was far more experienced with composing shots for regular film cameras than videotapes, disliked the flat television standards of lighting and color, and couldn't compose his shots privately as all of the film crew watched the monitors as the shots were being set up.{{Sfn|Lucas|1983|p=36}} Cronenberg stated that ''Videodrome'' was the first time that he fired a crew worker due to an incident between a hairdresser and Harry.{{sfn|Cronenberg|2006|p=66}}

The ''Samurai Dreams'' short was filmed in half a day without any audio recorded at a rented spot at a [[Global Television Network|Global TV]] studio in Toronto, and lasted five minutes longer than what ended up in the final film.{{Sfn|Lucas|1983|p=36}}

Three different endings were filmed. The ending used in the final film, wherein Max shoots himself on the derelict ship, was James Woods' idea.<ref name=hnnnet>{{cite web|url=https://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-videodrome/|title=Ten Things You Might Not Know About ... Videodrome!|first=William |last=Burns|date=August 28, 2014|website=HorrorNewsNetwork.net|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> One of the initial intentions for the ending was to include an epilogue after the suicide, wherein Max, Bianca, and Nicki appear on the set of ''Videodrome''. Bianca and Nicki are shown to have chest slits like Max, from which grotesque, mutated [[sex organ]]s emerge.<ref name=hnnnet/> Another ending featured an orgy between Bianca, Max, and Nicki after Max shoots himself and sex-organs were designed for the scene, but Cronenberg decided to remove the scene.{{sfn|Rodley|1997|p=97}}