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Logan D A metal fetishist is accidentally killed by a businessman and his girlfriend. The businessman begins to be plagued by a curse that transforms his flesh into metal.A bold frenetic sexually charged technological cyber-punk insane horror film.I loved it. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/21/24 Full Review NiB Y This is as much as a movie as someone's bad trip. Though not recommeding this movie would be a complete disservice. The pratical effects and stop motion are marvellous and i would be lying in not saying that this movie is a legit source of inspiration for me. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/08/24 Full Review Brody C It’s good at what it wants to be good at, body horror. The plot is minimal, which is OK. The visuals and cinematography are what make the movie interesting. But at a certain point it can tend to be just random shots of metal….just to really hammer home the point (pun intended). Just not very entertaining, more so interesting. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/28/24 Full Review Charles T Just another Japanese-language, surreal, horrifying, chilling, gross, sad*stic, industrial sixty seven minute nightmare in glorious black and white. What can I say about the plot? A victim of a hit-and-run accident has his revenge on the couple that ran him over. That sounds like a pitch to an average Hollywood movie, and it has been done, but "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" quickly leaves all safe Hollywood ingredients in its wake. The victim somehow gets the male driver to slowly turn into a raging machine. It starts with a small wire sticking out of his cheek. Soon, he is being chased in a subway terminal by a woman with the mechanical affliction. He escapes her, but still tries to make it with his girlfriend. In the film's most horrific scenes, he grows a giant ugly drill, and the two spend many minutes both trying to kill and love each other. Halfway through, we find out what the victim is trying to do, and the climax involves the two men joining together in more ways than one.Surrealism is so hard to describe- quick, give me the plot of "Un Chien Andalou," but this film is one of the most violent films I have seen. So much can be read into this, from machines taking over our world, to impersonal love relationships, but all in all, director and writer Tsukamoto stuns the viewer with eye imploding visuals. The stop motion special effects work well, and everyone involved seems to be in actual pain in many scenes. The makeup and mechanical costuming are top notch, and the music totally kills- not quite heavy industrial, but not just another rock soundtrack, either. There is not a lot of blood here- there are torrents of it. This is a blood monsoon. The soundtrack has little dialogue, and the sound effects consist of a lot of metal scraping metal, which had me climbing the walls. Watch for the now infamous scene as the unnamed man feeds his girlfriend breakfast. "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" is a hard core sci-fi/horror fan's dream, I'll never curse my car or microwave again. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/08/23 Full Review Becca S Some classic Japanese Body Horror that defined the genre at the time of its release! Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/06/23 Full Review federico m Hard to watch, and that's good. Everything makes sense yet you'll ask yourself "what am I watching?" all the time. Great movie. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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