Very disappointed :(

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I will try to keep this review as short as possible, just watch this film. Even if you aren't into surreal films, do it anyway, its that's interesting. The effects in this film are really damn cool. I mean yeah I would consider some of the acting to be overacted, but that's not really a bad thing and adds to the charm. Also the soundtrack is really good, would recommend to listen to it.

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 film draws inspiration from the 1988 film "Akira". Although not exactly clear, it seems like something between David Lynch's "Eraserhead" and some of the stranger films of the 1990s. The imagery and music strongly evoke industrial music culture, which at this point was really in its infancy, not breaking for a few years. This film seems to have been an influence on Trent Reznor for such videos as "Happiness in Slavery", though it may be coincidental.I am a bit surprised to see I was not familiar with any of Shinya Tsukamoto's work, including this film, despite my deep passion for horror and science fiction. I am quite familiar with the films of Takashi Miike, who is clearly a pupil of Tsukamoto.

"Tetsuo, the Iron Man" is among the strangest independent films I have ever seen. It isn't just because of the low budget black and white cinematography but the story--one that is incredibly strange, brutal and surreal. The film is packed with blood, violence and is one best not to watch if you don't have a very high tolerance for this sort of stuff--and my bet is that this includes most people! You certainly wouldn't want to show this to Granny (unless you were trying to kill her) or your kids (unless you want to turn them into psychopaths)! The story is very choppy, has very little dialog and often seems to be missing a clear storyline. It begins with some freaky guy living among metallic junk--and he's shoving pieces of metal into his body! It's pretty hard-core stuff--complete with blood, guts and maggots! Soon, he's run over in an accident that cost nothing to stage--because they don't show the accident in order to save money. Next, a man is talking to his girlfriend on the phone about the incident and tells her he's feeling strange since the hit and run. Following this, the guy has a LONG surreal hallucination about a woman who is made up of flesh and metal--as he, too, is becoming metal. She torments him for a long time, becomes a monster and rapes him brutally. Then, he wakes up to find that while it was a hallucination, he still is having metal erupt from his body. He and his girlfriend then make out like monkeys. All this only in the first 20 minutes of the film!! I haven't even gotten to the portion where he has a giant spinning metal screw for genitals!! Need I go on?! I really don't think so.The bottom line is that this is a film with almost no audience. Unless you love indie horror, Japanese films, extreme violence, sexual sadism AND surrealism, then you'll probably find the whole thing rather repellent. Believe it or not, actually found the film a bit boring after a while because it was so excessive there really couldn't be anything else to offend or surprise me after a while.

Tetsuo is considered like a masterpiece of cyberpunk in cinema history. The first thing i remarked was the soundtrack, it's an awesome one and fit perfectly with the movie. The movie is very disturbing because the protagonists are transformed by different metals, some tubing break out by the throat and when someone die there is a kind of mash around the body. There is a sex scene really disturbing where the man have sex with a "transformed-by-metal" girl but we understand at the end of this scene it's only a nightmare.Tetsuo is a good experimental movie, to see if you like cyberpunk style and disturbing movies.