Movies Ranked In 3 Sets - Not so Industrial, Industrial, and UBER-Industrial (with explanations - whee!)
Not So industrial (But get'em if you're desperate)
- Johnny Mnemonic (stupid movie, but it had nice sets)
- Hellraiser (any installment - pinface is an inspiration to new rivethead piercing styles)
- Edward Scissorhands (Kinda a crappy plot and aimed for kids, but the main character is fetishy and has metal shears for hands; that's at least worth mention)
- Inspector Gadget (Actually, this was put in more as a conceptual object rather than a recommendation. The main character is a machine/man. It was disney though; don't waste your time)
Industrial (Good industrial movies, but not amazing)
- The Matrix (ok, this is a debatable one, but I put in in the alright column because of the future-scene sets if nothing else.)
- Akira (Japanese Anime. It's actually an amazing movie, but not industrial enough to fall into the last catagory. Rent it regardless.)
- Ghost In the Shell (ditto)
- Altered States (A weird scientific drug experiment/hallucination related movie. Twisted imagery and bizzare sound effects. Check it out)
- Skinny Puppy's Worlock Music Video (if you can get your hands on a copy of it, do so - it's legally repressed, and thus, quite a treasure. It is composed entirely of gore scenes taken from horror movies; the industrialalization comes from the music itself, rather than the video (not to say that the video isn't cool))
UBER-Industrial (Must-sees for any budding Rivethead [sidenote: most of them don't have happy endings])
- Brazil (British movie - both a hilariously amusing satire and a disturbing thinker. Great acting, wonderful decco style sets (mixed in with wires, tubes, pistons, etc), disturbing premise, etc. It's a true classic, and a hard viewing. It's got it all).
- Tetuso: Iron Man + Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer (Tetsuo 1: A japanese cult film done in black and white about a guy who starts grotesquely sprouting sheet metal and power tools. A very difficult viewing - extremely frenetic/berzerk. Tetsuo 2: Sheds tetsuo 1's insane harshness for a more lushious picture [with color!!]. Better special effects, a bit slower, same general plot as the first. Plus, it is probably the only movie in existance with an industrial noise soundtrack!)
- 12 Monkeys (Written and Directed by Terry Gilliam [the guy who did brazil] a right 'ard movie dealing with time travel, insanity, and demented sets. It's good.)
- A Clockwork Orange (An old classic film based on the Stanley Kubrick novel holding claim to the same name. While the asthetic of the movie is more 20's-60's than industrial, it definately holds all the malevolence and thought-provoking harshness which makes industrial movies so potent.)
- Blade Runner (A classic with Harrison Ford that everybody already knows everything about. Need I say more?)
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