As netflix season draws to a close (I put my account on hold when the weather starts getting better), I’ve been trying to get through as many old horror movies that I’ve been meaning to see for a long time as possible. Like 1980′s kind of old.
For the most part, I’ve been kind of disappointed. I’d built up “classics” like
Videodrome, and Eraserhead in my head to be something awesome that I really should see some time.
Perhaps they would have had more effect on me had I seen them several decades ago, but watching them now, I found them meandering, and well, dull. I couldn’t wait for Eraserhead to end. It became an endurance test to see if I could make it through the movie.

By complete contrast, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is possibly one of the greatest movie viewing experiences I’ve had. Wikipedia has a synopsis of the whole film. Even though I had read the synopsis beforehand, it wasn’t really a spoiler. I spent the whole movie asking myself “wtf is going on?”. It sounds awful, but somehow the awfulness wraps around and becomes awesome. There’s lots of really cool stop motion animation, and some of the gory bits are impressive given the miniscule budget that Shinya Tsukamoto had to work with.
The soundtrack by Der Eisenrost was impressive too given this was made in 1988. Listening to it, it’s pretty obvious where lots of early/mid 1990s industrial bands got inspiration.

There’s also a sequel to Tetsuo, which I’ve not seen and netflix don’t have it. So I’m going to have to pick up a copy from Amazon.

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