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Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
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Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Original name: 鉄男
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Revolving around the transformation of people into grotesque hybrids of flesh and metal, Tetsuo is above all an overwhelming audiovisual experience, set to a brain-pounding score by Chu Ishikawa and complemented by suitably exaggerated sound effects.
Style: psychedelic, psychotronic, surreal, experimental, disturbing, black and white, splatter, independent film, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, very little dialogue, metamorphosis, sex, hit and run, businessman, mutilation, apocalypse, transformation, distopia, extreme, rape, blood, fetishist, gay subtext, technology, violent, biopunk, arthouse horror, dystopia, zombie, gory, androids and robots ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
Keyword: avant-garde, reboot, retrospective, disgust, challenge, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, disturbing, controversial and serious films with plots about extreme, gore, violence, surrealism, body horror, trippy and blood mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like Tetsuo, the Iron Man: Videodrome (1983), Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992), Meatball Machine (2005), Screams of Blasphemy (1991), Eraserhead (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Videodrome (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, body horror, hallucination, surrealism, television, mind control, virtual reality, insanity, suicide, brainwashing, dystopia, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia, canada ...
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, kidnapping, body horror, cyborgs, violence, kaiju, androids and robots, superhuman powers, surrealism, big city, giant monster, trippy ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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Meatball Machine (2005)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even ...
Style: splatter, suspenseful, serious, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, parasite, transformation, monster, invasion, body horror, deadly creature, danger, chaos, dark humor, love affair, alien ...
Time: year 2016
Place: asia, japan
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Screams of Blasphemy (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Pinocchio 964 is a memory-wiped sex slave who is thrown out by his owners for failure to maintain an erection. It is unclear in what ways he has been modified beyond having no memory and being unable to communicate. He is discovered by Himiko while ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, disturbing, surreal, experimental ...
Plot: apocalypse, body horror, extreme, exploitation, memory loss, androids, robot, arthouse horror, trippy, nightmare, macabre, distopia ...
Time: future
Place: japan
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Eraserhead (1977)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style: surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological, experimental ...
Plot: surrealism, nightmare, insanity, existentialism, baby, psychology, art, dream, psychosis, eccentricity, factory, electricity ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: america
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Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style: disturbing, intense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, scientist, psychic power, investigation, exploitation, violence, telekinesis, human experiment, murder, mind reading, supernatural ability, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
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Possession (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, insanity, occult, hysteria, supernatural, monster, body horror, serial killer, existentialism, possession, cosmic horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, europe
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Pulse (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, internet, supernatural, afterlife, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, asia
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The Fly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, mad scientist, body horror, transformation, science, mutation, mutant, gory, teleportation, creature, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada
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Begotten (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Style: surreal, avant garde, experimental, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: macabre, surrealism, self mutilation, necrophilia, gory, violence, torture, spirituality, chaos, nihilism, extreme, brutality ...
Place: america
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100%
Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story: An artist finds and rescues a mermaid in a sewer. He takes her home with him and she develops sores all over her body that begin to pustulate and bleed. He uses what oozes from her sores to paint her portrait. When he can no longer handle it anymore ...
Style: disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, bloody ...
Plot: mermaid, gory, creature, body horror, mysterious character, extreme, woman in danger, dealing with death, violence, fear, blood, artist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: japan, asia
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Guinea Pig: Android of Notre Dame (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min.
Story: A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.
Style: extreme horror, terrifying, controversial, psychedelic, bloody ...
Plot: extreme, cyberpunk, evil doctor, inspiration, siblings, medical, laboratory, organ transplant, reanimation, infamy, brother sister relationship, dwarf ...
Time: year 1989
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Pi (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style: surreal, cerebral, black and white, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, obsession, computer, surrealism, paranoia, alienation, cyberpunk, psychology, schizophrenia, philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place: new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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The Face of Another (1966)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Style: surreal, allegory, philosophical, psychological, psychedelic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: incest, disfigured face, existentialism, face, new identity, philosophy, plastic surgery, brother sister incest, surgery, disfigured, surrealism, dystopia ...
Time: distant future, year 1966, 60s
Place: japan, asia
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Audition (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark ...
Plot: torture, femme fatale, psychopath, murder, sadism, macabre, revenge, serial killer, twists and turns, unsettling, violence, obsession ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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House (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A girl invites her six friends to spend summer vacation with her at her aunt’s house in the countryside. However, the girls don’t know the aunt’s secret......
Style: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, cat, surrealism, haunted house, possession, house, piano, skeleton, evil wins, characters murdered one by one, white cat, coming of age ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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eXistenZ (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style: surreal, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, cyberspace, dystopia, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy, video game, parallel world ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1999, near future
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Altered States (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: An American named Anthony is living and working in Tokyo and married to a Japanese woman. When their son is killed by the same driver who creates the Tetsuos in previous films, he makes the transformation into Tetsuo.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, tech noir, controversial ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: body horror, cyberpunk, uncover truth, androids and robots, super weapon, danger, good versus evil, escapades, superhuman powers, uncontrollable, chaos, hidden truth ...
Time: future
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Spiral (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. ...
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, obsession, small town, surrealism, transformation, insanity, cosmic horror, body horror, curse, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror ...
Place: japan
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Gozu (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, surrealism, obsession, murder, nightmare, extreme, hitman, mission of murder, mental illness, danger, lactation ...
Place: japan, asia
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Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka ...
Style: surreal, rough, bloody, futuristic, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, female warrior, body horror, sex, mutant, fighting crime, supernatural, dark humor, revenge, apocalypse, extreme, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2008, year 2016, future, near future
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Bad Taste (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and ...
Style: splatter, bloody, grindhouse, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, alien invasion, violent, zombie, space and aliens, alien, extreme, exploitation, small town, ufo, chainsaw, underground ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, year 2016, near future, 20th century
Place: new zealand, oceania, pacific ocean
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100%
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Martyrs (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style: disturbing, bloody, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Plot: torture, child abuse, violence, gory, kidnapping, brutality, revenge, afterlife, torment, fear, torture chamber, home invasion ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, year 1971, 21st century
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Santa Sangre (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, psychology, clown, extreme, art, magic realism, schizophrenia, macabre, funeral ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: mexico city
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 6.3
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Under the Skin (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style: surreal, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien, femme fatale, extraterrestrial, human prey, nudity, disguise, female nudity, desire, nightclub, seduction, deformity, male nudity ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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100%
Rubber's Lover (1996)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded ...
Style: controversial, clever, black and white, cyber, disturbing ...
Plot: fetish, surrealism, cyberpunk, extreme, madness, brutality, metamorphosis, human guinea pig, body horror, violent, sexploitation, mental disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
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From Beyond (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style: scary, lovecraft, demonic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, transformation, supernatural, monster, experiment, zombie, gory, laboratory, another dimension, murder, obsession ...
Time: year 2016
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100%
Bullet Ballet (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man (Shinya Tsukamoto) becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
Style: black and white, neo noir, psychedelic, controversial, mind bending ...
Plot: suicide, violence spree, mental health, cyberpunk, samurai, mental disorder, extreme, big city, nihilism, gang, revenge, urban setting ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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 6.3
 23K
Shivers (1975)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Style: scary, disturbing, grindhouse, sexy, suspense ...
Plot: body horror, parasite, exploitation, zombie, gory, sex maniac, rape, mad scientist, plague, infected, violence, insanity ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: canada, montreal
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