Line #13 NightmareFuel/TetsuoTheIronMan


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4	We're going to give you a head's up: This is ''not'' your average horror trilogy in the slightest. Well? Time to go [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist fullmetal]], fam.
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8	[[folder:Tetsuo: The Iron Man]]
9	* The HighConcept of this movie: a man accidentally kills someone with his car, and as punishment gets to witness and ''feel'' [[BodyHorror his entire body turning to metal from the inside out]] [[AndIMustScream while being unable to do anything about it]] while slowly [[SanitySlippage going insane]] as a result (probably from his brain turning to metal). It'd probably be easier to list the parts that ''aren't'' NightmareFuel.
10	* The opening sequence, in which the Metal Fetishist '''shoves a metal pipe into his leg''', with sound effects that somehow invoke {{Squick}} all on their own. And then we get to see a gruesome shot of the Fetishist's mutilated leg with maggots crawling all over it. No wonder he freaked out and ran into the road...
11	* The subway chase is {{claustrophobia}} incarnate. Imagine fleeing from a mutant woman, but running into a dead end and hiding in a tight bathroom stall, praying she won't be able to find you...
12	* The scene where the Salaryman's penis turns into a drill.
13	* One scene early on in the film shows the Salaryman on the phone with his girlfriend. Their conversation is just the two of them [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment saying "hello" to each other back and forth.]] [[{{SurrealHorror}} It's much creepier than it sounds.]]
14	-->'''Girlfriend:''' Moshi moshi.\
15	'''Salaryman:''' Moshi moshi.\
16	''(repeat several times)''
17	* While shaving, the Salaryman [[OhCrap discovers]] a [[BodyHorror tiny metal needle poking out of his cheek]]. When he tries to pull it out, it sprays ''blood.'' This is his first clue that something is very, ''very'' wrong. When it gets worse, his attempts to remove it result in a chunk of his skin peeling off to reveal ''scrap metal beneath it.''
18	-->'''Girlfriend:''' Hey, what's wrong?\
19	'''Salaryman:''' [[BlatantLies It's nothing. It's nothing.]]
20	* The Salaryman's attempt at suicide via electrocution while [[LaughingMad laughing like a maniac]].
21	* The Salaryman gets a phone call:
22	-->'''Yatsu:''' So you've done it again. Don't bother to hang up. I know all about you. You can't escape me. [[SuddenlyShouting DROP DEAD, YOU METAL BEAST!!]] [[LaughingMad MAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!]]
23	* The part where the Salaryman realizes that the Fetishist is approaching his house. And rapidly approaching he is - while ''standing still,'' gliding down the streets as anything metallic crumbles and implodes from his very presence. But at least he brought flowers!
24	* Before and after the Salaryman kills his girlfriend, the film [[JumpScare cuts to a CRT monitor view of Yatsu]] [[LaughingMad laughing like a deranged chipmunk.]] It comes straight out of nowhere.
25	* The Metal Fetishist remotely transforming almost everything in the house into metal. An unfortunate cat turns into a living metal sculpture and we hear its distorted meowing from its head, which is sprouting out of a can.
26	* Yatsu dissolves the Salaryman's girlfriend's corpse into metallic mulch before using the knife she was still clutching as a means of ''entering her body and bursting out of it.'' Then he straddles the Salaryman in an [[NoYay extremely uncomfortable way.]]
27	-->'''Yatsu:''' Fantastic...\
28	'''Salaryman:''' You didn't die!
29	* Yatsu shows the Salaryman a vision of the future he wants to create. It's a landscape of metallic poles and spheres with little if any sign of civilized life. We are shown the Salaryman trapped in one of these spheres screaming and attempting to break free but he is covered in wires preventing him from escaping and then the sphere just dissolves him.
30	* Yatsu's flashback of a doctor discovering his illness. Who comes across as a little ''[[NightmareFetishist too]]'' calm about his patient's condition.
31	-->'''Doctor:''' [[PrecisionFStrike What the fuck is this?]] This is unbelievable! How did you make it here? There's a piece of metal stuck in your brain. I can't believe you're still alive! What genius inserted it? You'll die if it is removed. Think of it as jewelry. ''[[HellIsThatNoise (Loud static)]]''
32	* TheReveal that the Salaryman is far from an innocent victim in the film. Instead of calling the police or an ambulance after hitting Yatsu with their car, the Salaryman and his Girlfriend opt instead to [[WhatTheHellHero throw his mortally wounded body in a ditch]] and then [[FanDisservice have sex by a tree only a few meters away.]] [[DysfunctionJunction Not a single person is right in the head in this movie.]]
33	* The chase scene is incredibly jarring even by the standards of the film, as the Salaryman tries to run away from Yatsu in ''stop-motion.''' Neither of them take an ''actual'' step, just gliding through empty streets.
34	** It comes to a momentary halt when the film cuts to a flashback of Yatsu getting abused as a kid by a homeless man, who calmly confronts him like a samurai crossing paths with an old rival...before wildly beating the ''shit'' out of him with an iron rod. Keep in mind that a piece of that rod would get lodged into Yatsu's head, to the point that removing it would cost him his life.
35	--->'''Old Man:''' [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Hey sonny...]]
36	** Yatsu is in ''agony'' as he can feel the same beatdown that the Salaryman is receiving, getting flashbacks to his childhood.
37	* The factory scene, where the Salaryman's condition has reached its pinnacle of [[BodyHorror severity]], and gives the Fetishist a taste of his own medicine with sadistic glee, eventually merging into him like an iron amoeba in a [[FanDisservice disturbingly erotic way.]]
38	-->'''Yatsu:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you!]] Don't you understand?! Your future is ''metal!''
39	* [[GainaxEnding The ending,]] where Yatsu and the Salaryman fuse into [[MechanicalAbomination a gigantic rocket-propelled biomechanical penis on wheels]] like a Kanamara festival gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.
40	-->'''Salaryman:''' Ahh, I feel great.\
41	'''Yatsu:''' We can mutate the whole world into metal.\
42	'''Salaryman:''' Ahh...\
43	'''Yatsu:''' We can rust the world into the dust of the universe.\
44	'''Salaryman:''' Let's do it...\
45	'''Yatsu:''' Our love can destroy this whole [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] world!\
46	'''Salaryman:''' ''(just drools)''\
47	'''Yatsu:''' LET'S GO GET 'EM!!! ''(fires the gun fused to his arm and their engines roar to life, propelling them down the streets of Tokyo at breakneck speed)''
48	* At the end of the credits, the movie cuts to static - '''GAME OVER.'''
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51	[[folder:Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer]]
52	* Yatsu shooting a man using his ''finger'' at the beginning.
53	* Pick any of Tomoo's [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]] or transformation scenes.
54	* One of Yatsu's henchmen uses Tomoo's ''[[WouldHurtAChild son]]'' as a [[MoralEventHorizon human shield as the last second,]] causing him to utterly ''obliterate'' his own child. The sight of the LaughingMad mook holding his tiny, severed fists aloft ensures that the salaryman is ''doomed'' to [[DespairEventHorizon spend the rest of his life]] as a HumanWeapon [[ForcedTransformation mutated by rage.]]
55	* Hell, pick any of the fight sequences. Tomoo's sheer psychotic fury ''really'' sells that most fights in the film aren't actual fights, just pure, one-sided ''maulings.'' The fact that every single sound that comes out of his mouth during these scenes counts as a HellIsThatNoise doesn't help.
56	* The cultists who are chosen to be converted into iron men suffer a serious problem with their transformation. Instead of gaining metallic powers, they just start ''[[BodyHorror rusting]].''
57	* The {{flashback}} to Tomoo and Yatsu's childhoods.
58	** Their dad, also possessed of metallic powers, performs a "magic trick" where he ''gruesomely'' transforms a cat into a tea kettle.
59	** The dad mortally wounding his wife with a ''gun'' while raping her, only to discover that his kids were [[TroublingUnChildlikeBehavior watching the whole time.]] Their son Tomoo does what any [[SarcasmMode normal kid]] would do in that situation: [[EnfantTerrible blasts the shit out of both of them with their finger-guns]]. While ''smiling.''
60	* The brief scene of a [[FetusTerrible fetus]] in its womb, warped by the Tetsuo virus that clenches its fist and lets out a baleful cry.
61	* The [[TankGoodness tank at the ending of the movie.]] As it rolls through the streets, you can see the skinheads' faces and [[AndIMustScream hear their screams coming out of it.]]
62	* At the very end of the film, Tomoo and his wife enjoy a casual stroll through the city with their new son many years later. Problem is, the city has been ''annihilated.''
63	-->'''Wife:''' It's so peaceful.
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66	[[folder:Tetsuo: The Bullet Man]]
67	* Yatsu's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness slaughter of the PMC team and his own mooks]] is both this and NauseaFuel.
68	* Yatsu gives an ultimatum to Anthony.
69	-->'''Yatsu:''' Let's play one last little game. In one minute, I will push this button. You have two choices. Number one: Kill me! That way you save the wife and the woman you love, but that way the monster is loose. Choice number two: I blow this place to pieces. No more little monster. The world will have peace. Well? [[BadassBoast Are you ready to ride, cowboy?]]
70	* Anthony's final form: a gigantic metallic beast with a cannon in his chest and a head that ''breaks itself'' to pieces, revealing what appears to be even smaller guns. ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill.
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Context NightmareFuel / TetsuoTheIronMan