
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Horror • NR • 1989 • 1 hr 7 min
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A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
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absolutely incredible, with great practical effects and an absurdly kinetic style
If Cronenberg and Akira met and made a nightmarish phallic drill having creation. Frantic and oh so Metal!
Intense and odd, but clearly created with vision and care, even if that vision is super weird and hard to explain.
Sit down rdj, there’s a new iron man in town
Absolute insanity. Beautifully grotesque.
If Lynch and Cronenberg collabed and really liked hentai
Words can't describe how crazy this movie is.
A frenetic fever dream that continues to influence movies today. Funny at times and beautiful black and white visuals.
THE TYPE OF SHIT THAT DEFINES A GENERATION
The weirdness is on par with Eraserhead.
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