On 10/21/94 Shawn Levy wrote: >I've actually taught "Tetsuo" in my Cyberpunk Film course at Portland >State U., and it has blown my students' minds. The most crowded 60 or so >minutes they'd ever seen. The director -- Shinya Tsukamoto -- made a >"Tetsuo 2," accoring to one of my more intense (but reliable) students, >but it's only available as a Japanese import, far as we could determine. ============== The sequel is called "Body Hammer: Tetsuo 2." Haven't seen it, but the VARIETY of a couple of years ago indicated that it had a plot which connects with one of SCREEN-L's recent threads: a metal freak kidnaps a boy, and the boy's father tries to get him back. Both villain and father mutate metalically as in the original film. --Richard Richard J. Leskosky Unit for Cinema Studies, UIUC office phone: (217) 244-2704 FAX: (217) 244-2223