Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto Run Time: 67 min. Release Year: 1989 Language: Japanese
Starring: Kei Fujiwara, Naomasa Musaka, Nobu Kanaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomorowo Taguchi
Our second September Volunteer of the Month is Charlotte Brungardt, who has chosen Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man as her pick!
A “metal fetishist”, driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Frequently compared to the work of Sam Raimi and David Cronenberg, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a disturbing yet arresting foray into body horror.