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Sat, Jul 22 at Midnight

TETSUO: THE IRON MAN

  • Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Japan
  • 1989
  • 67 min.
  • NR
  • DCP

In Japanese with English subtitles

  • Assistive Listening
  • Subtitled
  • Hearing Loop
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN

Part of Midnight Movies

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Filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto’s unhinged hot take on humankind’s ongoing battle with technology — literally, as a man mutates into a walking, clanking man-machine that terrorizes himself and everyone around him. Warping elements of early Cronenberg, Lynch and Raimi into a deliriously-paced cyberpunk cocktail, TETSUO is a body horror manifesto that’s fueled by techno-erotic adrenaline and wrought iron perversion. Unmissable.

“A cyberpunk ERASERHEAD.” —Michael Weldon, The Psychotronic Video Guide

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