The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Tetsuo: The Iron Man on Thursday, March 29, at 8 p.m. at The Black Cloud, located on the lower level at 723 Haywood Road, with an introduction by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Movie Information
In Brief: The Thursday Horror Picture Show makes its triumphant return this week at The Black Cloud in West Asheville with a film as polarizing as it is traumatic: Shinya Tsukamoto's seminal classic of Japanese cyberpunk body horror, Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989). Playing something like early Lynch by way of Cronenberg with a dose of Aronofsky on speed, Tetsuo may well be one of the most challenging and uncomfortable films ever made. Add to that its breakneck punk-rock pacing and heavy industrial score, and you have a film that brutalizes as much as it entertains. What's the story about? It's almost irrelevant. Be forewarned — this one is not for the faint of heart. Also be forewarned that The Black Cloud is a bar and not a theater, although the screening amenities are top-notch. Come celebrate the rebirth of the THPS, an Asheville institution that stubbornly refuses to stay dead!
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| Genre: | Horror |
| Director: | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Starring: | Tomoro Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Renji Ishibashi, Naomasa Musaka, Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Rated: | R |
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