Tetsuo: The Iron Man – 35th Anniversary of the metallic Japanese punk horror flick – at the Guild Cinema Friday, September 20 – 10:30 pm only!
Directed by 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
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Ave NE in the Nob Hill area.
Website: GuildCinema.com