When it comes to the subgenres of horror, a guilty pleasure inayopendelewa of mine would be the body horror subgenre. Is it disgusting and real hard to stomach, yeah, it really is. And yet, I upendo it. The ways the human body, the one salama thing that we as people have, can become so deformed into something that is beyond comprehension, taking that kind of familiar safety we have with own bodies away from us, is something I love. Go watch any David Cronenberg movie to see what I mean. But we’re not here to talk about any of those movies. We’re here to discuss something else. The 1989 body horror film all the way from Japan, Tetsuo: The Iron Man. This was a movie that was only made on the directors pocket change from his siku job, most of it being filmed in one of the actors apartments. Despite that, it was successful enough to get two sequels, one of which had muziki kwa the frontman of one of my inayopendelewa bands, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor. So, what made Tetsuo such a big name in Japan and even with some western audiences? Well, on the sekunde siku on Cultober, let’s take a look at Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Tetsuo: The Iron Man follow a troubled Japanese salaryman. Is this Tetsuo? I don’t know. The movie just calls him The Salaryman. After he and his girlfriend accidently run over a man and hide his body in a ravine, The Salaryman starts to experience some strange changes in his body. As it turns out, the man he ran over was actually someone known as the Metal Fetishist, who has rust from metal in his veins and fills his wounds with metal, and has aliyopewa The Salaryman the same curse as him, which causes his body to start growing metal parts, from shards of metal growing in his face to his ankles growing lead pipes to his penis turning into a drill, yes, really. This movie is very bizarre, in case wewe can’t tell from the whole drill penis thing. But this movie’s use of practical effects, with how much stop motion there are, the music, it all feels so industrial and metallic, like the body of The Salaryman himself.
I will say that this sinema editing can be a little strange. There are cuts that make wewe wonder how the hell they got here, skipping some parts entirely. It kwa no means makes the film less enjoyable, but it is pretty jarring. Also, the erotic eating scene between the Salaryman and his girlfriend. Every bite of chakula she eats, wewe hear the sound of metal scraping and crashing. It’s so baffling. It’s not creepy, it’s funny. How can I take any of that seriously. But thankfully, those are my only two complaints. The movie can get really insane at times, and look like it makes no sense. But it’s forgivable because the movie is always inaonyesha insane special effects, like how those with the metal growths are able to songesha real fast, kwa the use of stop motion. It’s actually pretty creepy and leaves an unsettling feel which really works in the films favor. Especially when the Metal Fetishist moves through the streets of Japan, morphing and crushing any metal objects from bikes to sing posts as he passes by. It’s pretty haunting.
Even the sound ubunifu for this movie works in its favor kwa sounding very heavy with large poundings and such. It’s really hard to describe. It’s got like a sort of industrial rock sort of feel to it, au something like the zaidi industrial scores of the original Silent Hill. But the best part of this movie are the effects of the body horror. The growths on the Salaryman and the Metal Fetishist’s bodies look horrifying. Pipes and metal shards growing from their body, wires connecting parts together, their entire bodies bending and expanding to hold onto such metal components. It all looks terrifying. And the effects of the wires tangling around other things to keep them together, the sight of parts moving towards them like some magnetic force, all with the use of stop motion. That must’ve been a real pain in the punda for the crew to work on, because I think, despite how primitive it may look to today’s tech, works in the sinema favor. It looks so unsettling and I upendo it. They were able to get such creepy character designs because the crew would tape parts from abandoned TVs onto the actors. And it still manages to look really good, despite the insanely low budget that this movie had.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a true experience, let me tell you. It’s insane, crude, disturbing, and it’s amazing. If wewe want to see a few short dakika of absolute insanity, wewe should check this movie out. The Salaryman gets shards of metal in his face, chased kwa a woman with her arms transformed into a mass of wires, he grows a giant penis drill, and all this before the thirty dakika mark of the movie. It’s a film that goes all out with the madness, and never does it take a break. It is a constant disturbing ride all the way through. I highly recommend this movie. Check it out if wewe have the chance.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man follow a troubled Japanese salaryman. Is this Tetsuo? I don’t know. The movie just calls him The Salaryman. After he and his girlfriend accidently run over a man and hide his body in a ravine, The Salaryman starts to experience some strange changes in his body. As it turns out, the man he ran over was actually someone known as the Metal Fetishist, who has rust from metal in his veins and fills his wounds with metal, and has aliyopewa The Salaryman the same curse as him, which causes his body to start growing metal parts, from shards of metal growing in his face to his ankles growing lead pipes to his penis turning into a drill, yes, really. This movie is very bizarre, in case wewe can’t tell from the whole drill penis thing. But this movie’s use of practical effects, with how much stop motion there are, the music, it all feels so industrial and metallic, like the body of The Salaryman himself.
I will say that this sinema editing can be a little strange. There are cuts that make wewe wonder how the hell they got here, skipping some parts entirely. It kwa no means makes the film less enjoyable, but it is pretty jarring. Also, the erotic eating scene between the Salaryman and his girlfriend. Every bite of chakula she eats, wewe hear the sound of metal scraping and crashing. It’s so baffling. It’s not creepy, it’s funny. How can I take any of that seriously. But thankfully, those are my only two complaints. The movie can get really insane at times, and look like it makes no sense. But it’s forgivable because the movie is always inaonyesha insane special effects, like how those with the metal growths are able to songesha real fast, kwa the use of stop motion. It’s actually pretty creepy and leaves an unsettling feel which really works in the films favor. Especially when the Metal Fetishist moves through the streets of Japan, morphing and crushing any metal objects from bikes to sing posts as he passes by. It’s pretty haunting.
Even the sound ubunifu for this movie works in its favor kwa sounding very heavy with large poundings and such. It’s really hard to describe. It’s got like a sort of industrial rock sort of feel to it, au something like the zaidi industrial scores of the original Silent Hill. But the best part of this movie are the effects of the body horror. The growths on the Salaryman and the Metal Fetishist’s bodies look horrifying. Pipes and metal shards growing from their body, wires connecting parts together, their entire bodies bending and expanding to hold onto such metal components. It all looks terrifying. And the effects of the wires tangling around other things to keep them together, the sight of parts moving towards them like some magnetic force, all with the use of stop motion. That must’ve been a real pain in the punda for the crew to work on, because I think, despite how primitive it may look to today’s tech, works in the sinema favor. It looks so unsettling and I upendo it. They were able to get such creepy character designs because the crew would tape parts from abandoned TVs onto the actors. And it still manages to look really good, despite the insanely low budget that this movie had.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a true experience, let me tell you. It’s insane, crude, disturbing, and it’s amazing. If wewe want to see a few short dakika of absolute insanity, wewe should check this movie out. The Salaryman gets shards of metal in his face, chased kwa a woman with her arms transformed into a mass of wires, he grows a giant penis drill, and all this before the thirty dakika mark of the movie. It’s a film that goes all out with the madness, and never does it take a break. It is a constant disturbing ride all the way through. I highly recommend this movie. Check it out if wewe have the chance.