Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Item: Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Rating: 4
Author: Frank Showalter

(Tetsuo)

1989 | Japan | 67 min | More...

A bonkers story of a man who begins sprouting metal. It mixes The Fly’s body horror with Eraserhead’s visual esthetic, sprinkles in Clive Barkeresque kink and even packs a tokusatsu-style monster fight. A seventy-minute industrial fever dream.

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