A guy who is seen inexplicably inserting a metal rod into a giant maggot-infested gash in his leg is hit by a car while running in the road. The couple who hit him end up dumping him in the woods and having sex against a tree while the hit-n-run victim looks on. From there, it appears that the guy wants revenge and pulls this off by turning Joe Vehicular Manslaughter and some other folks into bionically mutated messes of mangled metal with nasty pus oozing growths. Eventually, the two "metal-fetish" beasts have their big showdown.
This flick is a whacked out agglomeration of industrial craziness and morbidly phallic visuals, including a big spinning drill cock and a chick with a vicious worm-cock that plunges up a dude's ass at one point. Ya got weird animated effects sequences and cool metallic, industrial sounds accompanying the unique and highly experimental tone of the film. Also got a great chase scene involving a woman with a spazzy robo-claw causing her to tweak out in a train station, a cat being welded to a paint can and, by the end, the two rivals morph into a giant mushroom... Or a cockhead... Again, lots of phallic imagery.
So, overall, there's not much to really dislike about "Tetsuo - The Iron Man". Top notch Cyberpunk-style, 'body-horror' insanity. Definitely a film I find myself revisiting rather frequently. Just don't expect any kind of conventional narrative or anything that resembles linear story telling. Just wild, filthy David Lynch-esque Japanese awesomeness.
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