Only four days left until Halloween Month will be over for another year. Here’s a review I first posted in 2013.
TETSUO THE IRON MAN (1989) – Director Shinya Tsukamoto hails from Japan and is noted for his surreal, nightmarish excursions into the darker side of transformative industrial technology … especially any technology that impacts the human anatomy. Long time readers of Balladeer’s Blog may recall that I cite this black & white film as one of my favorite sci-fi horrors ever.
From the early shots of a man agonizingly removing one of his own bones and replacing it with a piece of metal, viewers knew this was a dark work of true genius. Tetsuo continues to become more and more relevant by the year, especially regarding nanotechnology and its potentially invasive effect on the human mind and body.
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