Pinku / Panko
Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 67 mins, Japan, 1989, Cert 18.
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Fri 11 April // 22:30
Tickets: £5
A special midnight screening of Japanese enfant terrible Shinya Tsukamoto's legendary TETSUO. Tying together the gruesome body horror of the Guinea Pig film series with the punk mayhem of Sogo Ishii, Tsukamoto's cyberpunk odyssey is a surrealist nightmare of transformation and transgression.
The film's meagre plot details the process of a salaryman slowly but graphically turning into a robot, whilst being chased and tormented by a variety of other mensch-maschinen. Visceral and relentless, the film drew comparisons with Cronenberg and Lynch on its original release - think Videodrome but filmed like Eraserhead - and has come to be seen as one of the most influential horror films of the 1980s.
Cube Bar open from 10pm for metallic sounds and cyberpunk dancing. Film at midnight.