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Letter: Cronenberg woz 'ere first (2)

Published 16 July 2025

From Todd Bailey, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, UK

In a review of Matt Wixey’s Basilisk, you credit David Langford’s 1988 story BLIT with the idea that mere exposure to certain images could cause physical harm. This reminded me of David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome, in which a TV show induces brain tumours. Brings back memories of renting films on VHS tape.

Issue no. 3552 published 19 July 2025

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