Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Year: 1989

Runtime: 67 mins

Language: Japanese

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A man obsessed with fusing metal to his body creates a wound teeming with maggots, goes out at night, and is struck by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. They hide the body, hoping to resume normal lives, but the businessman becomes cursed, his flesh slowly turning to iron, unleashing a nightmarish transformation.

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