The film was also released on laserdisc in the United States by Image Entertainment in 1993. All releases are currently out of print. In 2020, Arrow Video announced the release of their Solid Metal Nightmares set, a collection of Shinya Tsukamoto's films on Blu-ray, including Tetsuo: The Iron Man. The set was released on May 26, 2020. Reception Tetsuo: The Iron Man received mostly positive reviews from critics. It currently has a 82% rating on film review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 7.10/10 based on 14 reviews. Stephen Holden of The New York Times described the film as having "hyperkinetic pacing and wildly contorted acting" as well as "a perverse sense of humor", and concluded that "the appeal...should be limited to aficionados of weird genre films." Richard Harrington of The Washington Post wrote that the film is "as surreally weird as Eraserhead and as intense as a Novocainless tooth extraction", and that it has "a nightmarish hyper-reality about it, feeling like a cartoon, but more disturbing for not being one." Slant Magazines Ed Gonzalez rated the film three and a half out of four stars, comparing the film to the works of David Cronenberg. Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle praised the film's cinematography, pacing, and themes; calling the film "a ferociously original 16mm nightmare". Prior to the release of Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Japanese films had largely been ignored by international film festivals. The film's success attracted international attention to Japanese cinema and prompted a revival of Japanese independent film in the 1990s. Notes References External links Review at Midnight Eye 1989 films Japanese black-and-white films Japanese horror films Biopunk films Body horror films Films directed by Shinya Tsukamoto Films scored by Chu Ishikawa Films using stop-motion animation Japanese science fiction horror films 1980s science fiction horror films Cyberpunk films Japanese films about revenge 1980s exploitation films 1980s Japanese films