Heavy Metal (Blu-ray)

A Step Beyond Science Fiction

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Blu-ray Disc Features:

Rated: R
Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
Video: Color
Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
Released: June 14, 2011
Originally Released: 1981
Label: Sony Pictures
Note: Original feature-length Rough Cut with optional commentary by Carl Macek

Deleted scenes with optional commentary
Imagining Heavy Metal - documentary

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:

DTS HD Master Audio - English, French
Subtitles - French, Spanish

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Featured:		Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Devo, Sammy Hagar, Stevie Nicks & Blue Oyster Cult
Directed by		Gerald Potterton
Screenwriting by		Len Blum
Composition by		Elmer Bernstein
Story by		Dan O'Bannon
Produced by		Ivan Reitman
Director of Photography:		Brian Tufano
Voice:		John Candy, Eugene Levy, Richard Romanus, Harold Ramis, John Vernon, Rodger Bumpass & Thor Bishopric

Entertainment Reviews:

New York Times - 08/07/1981
"...Impressive....Animated with great verve, and scored very well..."

USA Today - 05/24/1996
"...Sassy, raunchy, outrageous and eye-pleasing..."

Total Film - 06/01/2000
"...Highly enjoyable..."

Product Description:

Based on the eponymous underground magazine and original art and stories by Richard Corben, Angus McKie, Dan O'Bannon, Thomas Warkentin and Berni Wrightson, this groundbreaking cult classic served as a crossover introduction for many Americans to the aesthetic conventions associated with Japanese anime. This unique collection of six animated stories are all linked by sequences featuring a fiendish green meteorite that claims to be the cause of evil throughout the world. A combination of science-fiction, fantasy, horror, comedy, and sex against a pulse pounding heavy metal soundtrack with songs by Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Stevie Nicks, Nazareth and other 80's rock giants. The video contains a three-minute segment that wasn't included in the theatrical version of the film.

Plot Synopsis:

This unique collection of six animated stories combines science fiction with fantasy, horror, comedy, sex and rock music.
The segments include "Harry Canyon" and "Den." In the first, a New York City cab driver gets mixed up with a beautiful femme fatale. Although he's become so hardened that he keeps a death ray in his car to kill troublesome riders, he lets his guard down long enough to fall for his latest passenger... and it could cost him his life.
In "Den," a nerdy student travels to another planet and transforms into a macho stud with incredible strength. While fighting villains, beautiful women throw themselves at him.
Other stories in this anthology feature the exploits of a beautiful female warrior, pilots fighting off a creature from another world, and a Pentagon secretary who gets captured by an alien. There's also one off-the-wall segment played purely for comic effect.
The stories are all linked by sequences featuring a fiendish green meteorite that claims to be the cause of evil throughout the world.

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Production Notes:

The video contains a three-minute segment that wasn't included in the theatrical version of the film.
Based on original art and stories by: Richard Corben, Angus McKie, Dan O'Bannon, Thomas Warkentin and Berni Wrightson.
Stories include: "Harry Canyon" and "Den."
Additional voices: Roger Bumpass and Zal Yanovsky.
The movie was created by animation studios, directors and writers from the USA, UK, and Canada.