Heavy Metal (Blu-ray)
R
by Various Artists
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:
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Regardless of its dated stylishness (which still holds up remarkably well a decade plus later), Heavy Metal was a pioneering film in 1981 and remains a pivitol and infuential body of art today.
Film.com
Rating: 5/10 --
Exemplifies the notion that the euphemism "adult material" almost exclusively denotes content which is chiefly of appeal to people other than adults.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Heavy Metal proposes a narrative that is not always intelligible, where the monotony conceals the imagination of the filmmakers. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
It's definitely watchable for fans that appreciate the exploitative pulp nature of the magazine set to excellent rock music.
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Cinema Crazed
Asked if I wanted to see it again, I figured, why not? I would have remembered if it was really bad. But memory does play tricks.
Film.com
...Highly enjoyable...
Total Film
Fantasies that are gratuitously sexist and Fascist (macho whoring and warmongering), and whose roots reach all the way back to post-hippie paranoia, feed the tangled plot-lines of a movie that... should disappoint even the teenage wet-dreamers.
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Time Out
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.
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.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Animation
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Cult Film
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Fantasy
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Futuristic
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Heavy Metal
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Science-Fiction
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Racy
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Good Vs. Evil
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Anime
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Rock Music
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.
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- Sales Rank: 4,950
- UPC: 043396369290
- Shipping Weight: 0.14/lbs (approx)
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