Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1989 · 67 min · Horror · Science Fiction
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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Yuki StaticResident
a metal thorn pushing up through his cheek while he shaves. that's where it got me. this is not a movie, it's 67 minutes of pure assault. the 16mm grain hisses and clanks like the film stock itself is rusting. chu ishikawa's score isn't music it's the sound of a factory dying, all clashing tools and machine clatter, and it never lets anything breathe, which is the point. the stop-motion where the metal grows out of him moves wrong in a way 4k could never fake. the subway chase, the woman with the tentacle, around the halfway mark, i had to sit very still after. analog body horror at its most pulverizing. i could hear this movie in my teeth.
