Tetsuo: The Ironman (1988)

It starts with a bizarre merging of flesh and metal and accelerates into a hyper-hallucinatory state where springs, wires and solder erupt fountain-like from a man''s body, fueled by cyberpunk sensuality and wrought iron perversion.

Concerning itself with a young man's gradual mutation into a metal-being, the film takes a surreal journey into a dark and disturbing world where D.I.Y. body transformations and post-human women with deadly robot arms form the fabric of a strange new reality.

Likened to the work of Lynch and Cronenberg, Tetsuo moulds explosive violence, bizarre sexual imagery and jet-black humour into a cinematic experience like you've never seen before.

When an office worker and his girlfriend hit a metal fetishist in their car, they are thrown into a nightmarish world they may never escape from. The day after the accident, the office worker finds a metal whisker growing out of his face. This is soon followed my more metal growing out of him, and as he loses his sanity, his body becomes more taken over by machines and

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Related Movies: remake of Futsu saizu no kaijin (1986) Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) [sequel]

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