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That's exactly the kind of stuff that makes a film for me.

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Have you seen this film? It's called Tetsuo: The Iron Man and ticks all the right boxes. It is low-budget, weird, somewhat grainy, violent and from Japan....what more could you want? Both this film and its sequel/remake Tetsuo 2: Bodyhammer have great soundtracks too.

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Yes, such an awesome film.

I especially like the part where she gets 'impaled' on him. :lol:

You seem to know your stuff about asian cinema Paul.

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Well, I like Asian Horror films such as The Eye, The Grudge, etc as well as Hong Kong Gangster films, etc. They are often less predictable than U.S movies (and sometimes totally crazy) and have to use storytelling instead of relying on massive FX budgets. Might go for this double bill next:

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bish wrote:
That's exactly the kind of stuff that makes a film for me.

Someone who isn't scared to go out of the norm and show just a little bit of diversity!


Have you seen this film? It's called Tetsuo: The Iron Man and ticks all the right boxes. It is low-budget, weird, somewhat grainy, violent and from Japan....what more could you want? Both this film and its sequel/remake Tetsuo 2: Bodyhammer have great soundtracks too.

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I saw Tetsuo on Channel 4 many years ago. I found it quite hard work watching it, but at the time I think my brain was de-compiling itself. It is one of those films whose effects are o poorly done, that they are more terrifying as a result. I am sure it could be done far more slickly these days, and it would be gross, but the feelings that it would provoke would not be the same.

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At the beginning the is like a really hardcore sex scene, like you can actually properly se it going in.

It's about a man and a woman who have a baby together and while they're having sex, the baby starts to climb, and accidentally falls out of the window and dies.

The woman is depressed by this because she cant get over it, and her husband takes her to this cabin in the forest by a lake, where she wrote her thesis on human behaviour.

She pretty much turns into a nutcase.

And well, I just think it's beautiful. But that is my take on it.

Thank you for ruining any kind of enjoymenet I would have gained from watching one of my favourite directors by discussing the plot in a detail I would never have sought out prior. :roll:


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If you want a prime example of a good director making a rotten film, try Takashi Miike's "Happiness Of The Katakuris." Now that is terrible.


Now for me Takashi Miike is also a mixed bag. Ichi the killer for me was bloody brilliant, so violent, yet so beautiful in it's own right. I also loved The Great Yokai War, I loved Imprint too, but then Visitor Q made me want to eat my own arm off, it was so bad. I really really hated that. REALLY.

Old Boy > Visitor Q > Happiness > Tetsuo > Ichi > Machine Girl > Tokyo Gore Police > Yokai War....


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Paul1965 wrote:
Have you seen this film? It's called Tetsuo: The Iron Man and ticks all the right boxes.


That's one of my all-time favourite films. I had it on VHS, and it's one of the few I did a digital copy of.

Classic.

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