Filmplan International

A Toronto cable TV station co-owner who specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast titled "Videodrome."

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.

A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.