Heavy Metal

1981 "A Step Beyond Science Fiction"
6.6| 1h30m| R| en| More Info
Released: 07 August 1981 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: Canada
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

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Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
kilgoreboys Honestly I'm not sure why i decided to watch this. It really just looked odd and different for me. Although I would say that the film gave an effort, and was fully realized, I don't think it aged very well. The animation was fine, but I felt the early 80's pop here. A great film is timeless, but this felt like you had to have a time machine in order to fully appreciate.
mike48128 Great futuristic stylized "3D" animation. I loved it in 1981 when I was a young teenager! Graphic violence, colorful red and green blood, decapitations and severed limbs, explosions and fire, etc. The impossibly-drawn always-naked women with over-developed "Little Annie Fanny" Playboy-type "T & A" bodies. Simulated sex. Animated female frontal nudity. Drug abuse (Radioactive "cocaine" sniffing by aliens.) No wonder it still plays well on the midnight circuit with the likes of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and various gross "Wes Craven" inspired horror flicks. A bad anthology with 6 or 7 stories all tied together, told by the Evil Green Orb "Loc-Nar" that either turns people into (mostly) monsters or Gods. It steals from "The Incredible Hulk" as a few men become impossibly muscular! Great music and voices by several notable people, including Joe Flattery and John Candy. Rock and Roll and The London Symphonic Orchestra! Except for the superior imaginative animation, it's horrid and quite Sophomoric, like the gory "Tales From the Crypt". Shown completely uncut on free cable!
andrew taylor Heavy Metal is an animated anthology film based on the magazine of the same name. The film explores many genres, such as sci-fi, fantasy, horror, film noir and bizarre combinations of all of these. The soundtrack includes Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Nazareth, Journey, Blue Oyster Cult and many more. The result of this bizarre combination of elements is incredibly chaotic, nonsensical and trashy. Yet somehow, for the most part, the film seems to work. It feels like the fantasies of a 14 year-old boy being portrayed in very crude animation and the result is fascinating. This could have easily been an epic work of pop and trash art, but it never quite reaches that level. It is still completely entertaining though.
utgard14 Animated anthology about a glowing green orb called the Loc-Nar, which is apparently pretty bad stuff. All of the stories tie back into the orb somehow. The best stories were: "Harry Canyon" about a cabbie in futuristic New York who becomes involved with a sexy woman on the run from bad guys, "Den" about a nerdy teenager who is transformed into a muscular hero, and "Taarna" about a silver-haired big-breasted beautiful savior out to save her planet from an army of zombies. The rest of the stories are all okay, although I liked "Captain Sternn" the least. That's about a guy named Captain Sternn put on trial for his crimes where one of the witnesses turns into a monster. Anyway, they're all watchable. Some of them were adapted from stories from Heavy Metal magazine. The animation is crude at times but there's certainly a lot of imagination put into it. The story doesn't always make a lot of sense either but it's still very interesting and fun. The music is great. It's obviously for adults, not kids. It's good if you enjoy fantasy stuff and can manage to not take it all so seriously.