Tetsup: The Iron Man (1989) & Tetsuo: Body Hammer (1992)
WHAT
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989) & TETSUO: BODY HAMMER (1992)
WHERE
ON DVD FROM SIREN VISUAL
WHEN
OUT NOW
WIN
ONE OF FIVE DVD COPIES. JUST EMAIL WIN@TWOTHOUSAND.COM.AU WITH THE SUBJECT LINE 'METAL FETISH'
WATCH THE TRAILER
HERE
Remember when all the cool kids wanted mirrored sunglasses surgically attached to their faces? Or when we forgave THE LAWNMOWER MAN for being so god awful just to see the virtual reality effects? Or when FRONT 242 felt like the soundtrack to the future?
Relive the industrial magic with a torturous rewatching of Shinya Tsukamoto’s TETSUO: THE IRON MAN. Made for almost nothing and clocking in at barely over an hour, it’s blood-thirsty, hyper-stylish, and unforgettable. It opens with a metal fetishist inserting steel into an open wound; it ends with a manga-fuelled superhero battle; and finds time in the middle for black comedy, wild splatter, and… uh… a rotating industrial phallus drill.
It’s a film with shocking vibrational intensity: metal scraping against teeth, frenzied stop-motion edits, grimy black-and-white footage of mutated flesh and machines. It doesn’t seem like a movie designed for humans at all. You can imagine our machine overlords watching it, grinding and clacking with laughter, after the inevitable revolution.
This new release from Siren also includes the 1992 higher-budget sequel, BODY HAMMER. Promise you won’t watch them both in a row.
Format: DVD
Mood: Rad
Keywords: Manga, Shinya Tsukamoto
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