A funny, cruel exploration of the male psyche, Enter Achilles is set in a typical British pub, a shabby, nicotine-stained boozer. Pop songs tumble out of the jukebox, there is football on the TV, and the eight men lark around, pint glasses in hand. But their blokeish fun is balanced on a knife-edge of tension, for beneath the mateyness lurks a disturbing undercurrent of paranoia and insecurity exploited and violence covers up vulnerability.

* Meek Japanese man transformed through hideous cosmic accident into metallic monstrosity

* Tetsuo's hellish existence reflects the bleak nightmare of
post-industrial society

* In one scene, hero's penis is transformed into a demonic, parasitic drill

* Features many shots in which the camera gazes rapturously upon the twisted, rusted metal encasing Tetsuo's body

* Tetsuo is pursued by a freakish metal woman who sodomizes him with a large metallic dildo

* Producers failed to snag lucrative fast-food tie-in

* Directed by eccentric writer-director-actor-editor-cinematographer Shinya Tsukamoto, the auteur behind The Adventures Of Denchu Kozo and Hiruko The Goblin

* Protagonist horrified to find his organs mimicking the structure and functions of machines