Editing Videodrome (section)

===Effects===
[[Rick Baker]], who worked on the effects of ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'', did the effects for the film. However, his desired six months of preparation was reduced to two months, and fewer effects were created due to a reduced budget.{{sfn|Rodley|1997|p=96-97}}

One of the scenes cut from the script showed Max and Nicki's faces melting together while kissing and going across the floor to a bystander's leg and melting him.{{sfn|Rodley|1997|p=97}}

Michael Lennick served as special video effects supervisor. To create the breathing effects of the television set that Max interacts with, Frank C. Carere utilized an air compressor with valves hooked to a piano keyboard that he himself operated.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} The undulating screen of the television set was created using a [[video projector]] and a sheet of rubbery [[dental dam]]. Baker stated that "I knew we would need a flexible material ... we tested with a [[weather balloon]] first, stretching it over a frame the size of a TV screen, and pushed a hand through it to see how far it stretched, and then we [[Rear projection effect|rear-projected]] on it."<ref name=lucascriterion/> [[Betamax]] videotape cassettes were used as items to be inserted into Max's stomach slit, because [[VHS]] cassettes were too large to fit the faux abdominal wound.<ref>{{cite web |title=10 Things You Didn't Know About... Videodrome |url=https://www.hmv.com/video/10-things-you-didn-t-know-about-videodrome |website=HMV |access-date=October 20, 2021}}</ref> Woods found the stomach slit uncomfortable,<ref name=hnnnet/> and after a long day of wearing it, vented, "I am not an actor anymore. I'm just the bearer of the slit!"<ref name=HarryFace/> Baker's original concept for Max's flesh gun featured eyes, mouth and foreskin, which Cronenberg found to be "too graphic".{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} The cancer effects caused by Max's flesh gun went through various tests, with some tests having the face of the victim being distorted through the use of [[solvent]]s, but Baker decided against this upon learning that his mentor, [[Dick Smith (make-up artist)|Dick Smith]], had recently used the same technique in '' [[Spasms (film)|Spasms]]''.<ref name=lucascriterion/> Baker settled on having the cancer tumors burst out from the body of Barry Convex, with his crew operating a dummy underneath the set. Lennick devised effects such as having the image of the Videodrome television set distort whenever Max would whip it through the use of a device which he called the "Videodromer", and glitch and twitch effects related to Max's visions through the Videodrome helmet, but these effects were scrapped due to budget and time concerns.<ref name=lucascriterion/><ref name=commentary/><ref name=documentary>''Videodrome'', Criterion Collection ''Videodrome - Forging the New Flesh'', documentary</ref>