framptonhollis In the same field as David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin, Sam Raimi, and Jan Svankmajer lies Shin'ya Tsukamoto's monster movie master piece "Tetsuo, the Iron Man". Unlike most movies known for their extremely divisive weirdness, "Tetsuo" is a film that definitely has a clear plot, as well as reoccurring main characters. Other than that, though, it is as far from the mainstream as cinema can possibly be. Most people probably won't be able to tolerate its relentless insanity. you thought that first ten minutes was weird? Well, just ait for the last ten minutes, although you'd probably have stopped watching it then. In order to watch a film as wacky and weird as "Tetsuo", one needs a strong love of the surreal and unbelievable, for this is one of the essential "WTF am I watching"-type movies. If a movie in which a man tries to stick his power tool penis in a screaming victim in one of its more toned down scenes sounds good to you, you will adore this perverted work of genius!Personally, I love weird movies; after all, my favorite film of all time is "Eraserhead", which obviously inspired "Tetsuo" heavily. As a matter of fact, if I had to describe "Tetsuo' in one sentence it would be "'Eraserhead' but on even more acid." Perhaps that should have just been my entire review, and readers would quickly be able to guess whether they wanted to see such a film or not. Fans of extreme horror and experimental madness will adore this, while rom- com and car chase movie lovers just might not be the target audience.During the last 20-25 minutes of this cinematic trainwreck (this may be the only time I use that phrase in a complimentary context), there came a point in which I just sat there, staring at the screen, completely bewildered and bumfuzzled at the nuke of weird that was bursting in front of me. What was I even watching? And where can I find more films like it?!?This is a film that is not for most people, but those who can find pleasure in its demented wildness will certainly not be disappointed. It is a film that is equally disturbing and funny, a film of tragedy, of comedy, and of horror-and, yet, it is too bizarre to be labeled as such.

MartinHafer "Tetsuo, the Iron Man" is among the strangest independent films I have ever seen. It isn't just because of the low budget black and white cinematography but the story--one that is incredibly strange, brutal and surreal. The film is packed with blood, violence and is one best not to watch if you don't have a very high tolerance for this sort of stuff--and my bet is that this includes most people! You certainly wouldn't want to show this to Granny (unless you were trying to kill her) or your kids (unless you want to turn them into psychopaths)! The story is very choppy, has very little dialog and often seems to be missing a clear storyline. It begins with some freaky guy living among metallic junk--and he's shoving pieces of metal into his body! It's pretty hard-core stuff--complete with blood, guts and maggots! Soon, he's run over in an accident that cost nothing to stage--because they don't show the accident in order to save money. Next, a man is talking to his girlfriend on the phone about the incident and tells her he's feeling strange since the hit and run. Following this, the guy has a LONG surreal hallucination about a woman who is made up of flesh and metal--as he, too, is becoming metal. She torments him for a long time, becomes a monster and rapes him brutally. Then, he wakes up to find that while it was a hallucination, he still is having metal erupt from his body. He and his girlfriend then make out like monkeys. All this only in the first 20 minutes of the film!! I haven't even gotten to the portion where he has a giant spinning metal screw for genitals!! Need I go on?! I really don't think so.The bottom line is that this is a film with almost no audience. Unless you love indie horror, Japanese films, extreme violence, sexual sadism AND surrealism, then you'll probably find the whole thing rather repellent. Believe it or not, actually found the film a bit boring after a while because it was so excessive there really couldn't be anything else to offend or surprise me after a while.

valbrazon Tetsuo is considered like a masterpiece of cyberpunk in cinema history. The first thing i remarked was the soundtrack, it's an awesome one and fit perfectly with the movie. The movie is very disturbing because the protagonists are transformed by different metals, some tubing break out by the throat and when someone die there is a kind of mash around the body. There is a sex scene really disturbing where the man have sex with a "transformed-by-metal" girl but we understand at the end of this scene it's only a nightmare.Tetsuo is a good experimental movie, to see if you like cyberpunk style and disturbing movies.

Paul Celano (chelano) What can I really about this film besides it makes me feel very uncomfortable. You can tell this film had no real budget for special effects. Just make up and tricks they used to make things look; gross. But it worked. I think this movie wouldn't of been that interesting if it wasn't for that. The story itself is very demented and very confusing, but it seems to come together by the end. The cast just did a great job of being so strange and usual. Tomorowo Taguchi plays the iron man and he was just over all fantastic. He rival is played by Nobu Kanaoka. He did just fine, but wasn't as high of standard as Tomorowo. The only other person who sticks out is Kei Fujiwara so can really move her body around. There are many scenes in the film that will leave you cringing at the site of them, but that is what makes this movie great. It I have one complaint it would have to be that the film was pretty confusing. So confusing at points that the movie seemed a lot longer than it was. Other than that, it was strangely amazing.