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Streaming Review: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (BFI Player) (Patreon)

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2021-01-07 21:40:44
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2021-02

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A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.  We review Tetsuo: The Iron Man  available on BFI Player.  

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Summary: A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.

Written and presented by Robin Bailes @robinbailes 

Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer 

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Streaming Review: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (BFI Player)

A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal. We review Tetsuo: The Iron Man available on BFI Player. Buy Robin's new book "The Immortal Dracula" (UK) https://amzn.to/2HsWZI5 (USA) https://amzn.to/2FQvbwE Buy Robin's other books (UK) https://amzn.to/2F7Blbf (USA) https://amzn.to/3kmGMD3 Facebook: http://on.fb.me/RvhRdc Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarkCorners3 @DarkCorners3 Summary: A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation. A special thanks to our Dark Cultist Patreon supporters. THE SHADOWS: Brent Beebe, Pvt_Unicorn_Parts, Scott Nesmith, Lisa Kuta, John L., Normand Richardson, Richard Sadler, Thom MacIntyre, Chantelle Corey, Logistical Nightmare, Joe Niedbala, Trahan, Joseph Hines, Stephen Crane, Christopher Eckart, Anthony Strocks, John S. Savage, Dave Church, You Don't Get to Know, Ford, Jasmine Shafer, Allan Liska, goddessoftransitory, rachemus, Zachary Nolan, Chris Weakley, Heather and Michael Bailes, Colleen Crouch, Christie Bryden, Dan D Doty, Joseph Dougherty, Chris Hewson, David H. Adler, Hidden Trail Video, John Hepp, Western Canadian Guy THE ACOLYTES: Fritz Rutz, Joe Porter, Tony Breneman, Thomas Brown, Chris Fischer, D R Wellington, Ken Smiley, Richard D'Ambrosia, Matt P, Andy M, Milton Knight, Michael Schmidt, C, Michael Dean Jackson, Gemma Crowley, Andrew Weber, NuclearSaber, Picatea, Jim Rockford, Chris A, Mystic Cyclone, Prince Charming, Kyle Olson, Ch'aska Huayhuaca, Adam Everett, Johnathan Henning, James Robertson, Nils Muninsheim, David Pellot, Brian Kidd, Albertus Magnus, rachael kafrissen, Janne Wass, Robert Freeborn, David Conner, Peter Grantham, Amber Wesley, Tony Belmonte, Henry Brennan, Alex B, Mark Buckley, Uwe Marquardt, Russ Chandler, Simon Ash, Lavaughn Towell, Dave Smith, Tim Smith, Dark_Roast, Raven House Mystery, Terr Cain, Melissa Hayes, Clarence Pitre, Stephen Darnell THE INITIATES: Roop 298, Daniel Robinson, james Steadman, Andre, Jeffrey Disharoon, G.Kumar Achar, Ashleigh Rose, Claire Chandler, Lorna Smart, Seth Coleman, Joshua Allen, Jeffrey A Pleimling, Barry P., Terry LeCroix, VC, Jim Smith, greg Galanos, Clifford Parson, Martin Vlachynsky, Karl Bunker, Brian Ullmark, Alexandra Virgiel, Stephen LaPlante, Greg Hartwick, María Gd, Derek Summers, bob de builder, Michael Schwern, GadgetBlues, Jakub Łabeński, Double – U, Felix Weißig, Madam Eve Written and presented by Robin Bailes @robinbailes Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer Lockdown Review S1E47 #HorrorMovieReview #DarkCornersReview #StreamingReview

Comments

Stephen Crane

I think the fact that it's rough makes it more horrific. The big budget gore/borefests like Saw and Hostel are tedious and violent for violence's sake. A movie like this or Eraserhead make for more intense and uncomfortable viewing, because it's a more psychological terror thanks to your imagination having to fill in a lot of the blanks. Which is always much worse than anything most directors can put on the screen.

Anonymous

While Tetsuo can sometimes feel like a grinding headache when I watched it, there is no doubt this film was the beginning of a new "foreign wave" filmmaking. I imagine that "Eraserhead" was a big inspiration for Tetsuo. As for some films that followed in Tetsuo's footsteps, I would guess Darren Aronofsky's "Pi", the insane "Tokyo Gore Police" and even the surreal "Uzumaki". The fact that all the films I've mentioned are not personal favorites of mine shows I'm not a big "body horror" fan.

Anonymous

Have you guys ever thought about reviewing "Shock Waves" from 1977?

Anonymous

"body horror" makes me cringe, so I didn't actually watch most of the review. I did, however, enjoy listening to it. The film sounds very interesting &amp; I think that being in rough B&amp;W with subtitles makes it more like one of the old silents than a modern "body parts &amp; blood" gore fest.

Anonymous

My first thought about inspiration would be Black Swan, for its similar themes of body horror and forced transformation. For a completely different take on the subject, check out A. S. Byatt's story A Stone Woman, in her collection The Little Black Book of Stories.

Anonymous
>>50983022

Definitely Pi. The themes of technology taking over the flesh and the similar B&amp;W film look are very similar.

Anonymous

Saw this during a season of Japanese films at Curzon Soho. One thing I remember was being surprised that it was still light outside, as the journey the film takes you on makes you think that you are in that world for a lot longer than it's runtime. Not a film but this did influence Billy Idol when creating his 'Cyberpunk' album most notably the video for 'Shock to the System' after Punk journalist Legs McNeill compared Idol, who almost lost a leg in a motorcycle crash had plates and a frame bolted to him and was hooked up to an EMS machine, to a cyborg and lent him cyberpunk books and videos during his recovery. Had Idol not had his crash he would still have gone down the cyborg route as he was cast to play the T-1000 in 'Terminator 2'.

Anonymous

I remember recommending this one some time back. It is totally bonkers, how anybody could make it is astonishing. The follow up is as bizarre but far less coherent. And I'll agree with RHM, it's a precursor to so much of the Japanese camp / soft core /body horror genre films like Tokyo Gore Police, or Machine Girl . But this a film that you can't say that you'd rewatch a few times with friends. To me it's a one off experience.