Search results
Rating
Tetsuo: The Iron Man. A "metal fetishist" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), 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...
- (17)
- Palisades Tartan Films
- Shin'ya Tsukamoto
- Horror, Sci-Fi, Animation
A hysterical, histrionic ode to cyber-punk fetishism, Tetsuo owes as much to William Gibson as it does the body horror cinema of David Cronenberg & the stop-motion theatrics of Jan vankmajer.
"Tetsuo: the Iron Man" is utter chaos. Shinya Tsukamoto has created a strange world of metal fetishists and human decay. To make it all the more insane, it's filmed at the pace of a speed adrenaline rush.
People also ask
Who directed Tetsuo The Iron Man?
What is Tetsuo The Iron Man?
Was Tetsuo The Iron Man a good movie?
How did Tetsuo and fetishist transform into Iron Man?
- Its unforgettable body-horror. There was a surfeit of body horror in live-action western cinema before Tetsuo. Mangled bodies and metal-flesh hybrids featured in hits like The Terminator (1984) and Robocop (1987), David Lynch’s fantastic, industrial nightmares haunted Eraserhead (1977) and The Elephant Man (1980), and David Cronenberg’s grisly orifice explorations filled Shivers (1975), Rabid (1977) and Videodrome (1983).
- Its terrifying soundtrack. From phallic power drills to snaking strap-on metal dildos, what’s on screen borders on the extreme and experimental, and it’s matched by a delirious and frightening score.
- Its unlikely accessibility. It might seem counterintuitive to suggest a film that’s so abrasive to watch and listen to could actually be in any way described as accessible, but it is.
- Its furious visual style. Putting aside questions of outrageous content, Tsukamoto’s feature always looks the part. As he told Dazed in 2015: “In Tetsuo, I really wanted to show Tokyo as an urban jungle.”
Jul 1, 1989 · Tetsuo: The Iron Man: Directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto. With Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Shin'ya Tsukamoto. A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
- (26K)
- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Shin'ya Tsukamoto
- 1989-07-01
Aug 8, 2001 · Revolving around the transformation of people into grotesque hybrids of flesh and metal, Tetsuo is above all an overwhelming audiovisual experience, set to a brain-pounding score by Chu Ishikawa and complemented by suitably exaggerated sound effects.
Nov 4, 2015 · REVIEW: “Tetsuo, the Iron Man” has nothing to do with the Marvel comics hero by the same name. It does however present a great film trend way ahead of its time using black and white imagery and an unbelievable display of stop motion tactics.
