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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

鉄男

1989 ·1h 7m · ★ 7.0 (696)

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.

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11 horror films in catalog

Horror DNA

Gore
Bloodless Splatterfest
71
Slow Burn
Shock-driven Slow burn
50
Psychological
Straightforward Mind-bending
86
Supernatural
Grounded Otherworldly
0
Creature
Human threats Monster-driven
55
Disturbing
Tame Deeply unsettling
83
Fun Factor
Deadly serious Blast to watch
17
Cerebral
Popcorn horror Thinking horror
85
Survival
No survival element Fight for your life
33
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Tone

Whimsical

Content Warnings

Taboo ContentBody HorrorDehumanization
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TMDB Keywords

absurdangryaudaciousblack and whitebriskcyberpunkdystopiaenthusiasticexcitedexhilaratedfetishismfranticgoreromantic

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