Marvel built a multimillion dollar movie franchise around the wrong Iron Man in my humble opinion
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
鉄男
An atmospheric, gritty horror film.
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.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is showing in 1 cinema in New York City - next screening Saturday 24 October at 23:00 at Metrograph.
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Marvel built a multimillion dollar movie franchise around the wrong Iron Man in my humble opinion
Imagine that Luis Buñuel and David Lynch had intense homosexual encounters in a cheap motel in Tokyo under the influence of hallucinogens. Imagine that, after that, both (yes, both) conceived a single son. Finally, imagine that the aforementioned son made a movie and that every single scene in that movie was directed by him when he had an orgasm smoking opium.That's Tetsuo, the true Iron Man, so the hell with the Marvel character. Tsukamoto takes us back to the early surrealism nightmares of Un Chien Andalou (1929), L'Âge d'Or (1930) and Eraserhead (1977), and makes a strange fusion of such elements with cyberpunk themes influenced by Akira (1988) and MTV music videos, displaying a "plot" with an unconceivably energetic and unstoppable pace. Believe it or not, Tetsuo inspired countless of future Japanese cyberpunk pieces (including Cronenberg), but this is the measure to measure the rest of attempts to construct a masterpiece so unique that your head will explode. Never before had the merging between a urbanized technological social structure and the bare human flesh had been displayed so lunatically in movies. Warning: This is not idealized entertainment. This is in-your-face shock splatter, and this movie makes my day very happy :)98/100
Possibly the closest cinema has ever come to capturing a migraine on film.
A Japanese businessman and his girlfriend dispose of a corpse after accidentally hitting a bizarre metal fetishist with their car, only for the businessman to experience a grotesque bodily transformation into metal.
Shinya Tsukamoto directed the 1989 Japanese cyberpunk body horror film.
Yes, original Japanese prints feature English subtitles.
