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TETSUO: THE IRON MAN - a 35th Anniversary Screening of the metallic Japanese punk horror flick

Sep 20
Fri 10:30pm only!

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto - 1989 - 67m - Japan - In Japanese with English subtitles

“A cyberpunk ERASERHEAD.” -- Michael Weldon, THE PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO GUIDE


Virtually absent from theater screens since the 1990s, this underground classic from Japan is now available in a brand new restoration! TETSUO: THE IRON MAN is 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.


"Shinya Tsukamoto's wildly inventive experimental body horror film still astonishes more than 30 years later." - Trace Thurman, Horror Queers Podcast


"A hysterical, histrionic ode to cyber-punk fetishism, Tetsuo owes as much to William Gibson as it does the body horror cinema of David Cronenberg & the stop-motion theatrics of Jan Svankmajer." - Justin LaLiberty, Screen Slate

September 20, 2024

10:30 PM

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