The film purports to be part of a "mosaic" of educational resources by the Canadian Academy of Erotic Enquiry.

It is hoped that telepathic groups, bonded in polymorphous sexual relationships, will form a socially stabilising replacement for the "obsolescent family unit".

The final sequence shows the young woman who developed an extra personality wearing the black cloak.

[9] Martin Malina, writing in the Montreal Star, stated that it was "fresh, unconventional and, I suspect, thoroughly uncommercial".

[14] The bonus disc from Videodrome was later released on its own as David Cronenberg's Early Works together with the director's first two short films and his sophomore feature Crimes of the Future.