Heavy Metal
1981 · Movie · R · 90 min · ★ 6.5 · 59% critics
A mysterious glowing orb embodies pure evil and draws a young girl into a series of loosely connected animated tales. Each vignette dives into dark sci-fi and fantasy worlds filled with danger, lurid temptation, and horror-tinged thrills, linked by the orb’s corrupting influence.
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Details
- Years
- 1981
- Release date
- 1981-08-07
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Critic score
- 59/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (786 votes)
- Budget
- $9,300,000
About
If you enjoy adult animated anthologies with heavy metal energy, pulpy sci-fi/fantasy, and a deliberately sleazy edge, this could hit the spot; Not for you if you want coherent storytelling or dislike explicit nudity and violence, like in The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.
Pros: wild anthology imagination; strong rock soundtrack; memorable retro atmosphere | Cons: thin or disjointed stories; heavy nudity and gore; uneven animation and tone
Themes
- flying car
- taxi
- heavy metal
- based on comic
- drug use
- rotoscoping
- adult animation
Cast & crew
Rodger Bumpass
as Hanover Fiste / Dr. Anrak (voice)
John Candy
as Desk Sergeant / Dan / Den / Robot (voice)
Jackie Burroughs
as Katherine (voice)
Joe Flaherty
as Lawyer / General (voice)
Don Francks
as Grimaldi / Co-Pilot / Barbarian (voice)
Marilyn Lightstone
as Whore / Queen (voice)
Eugene Levy
as Sternn / Male Reporter / Edsel (voice)
Harold Ramis
as Zeke (voice)
- CS
Caroline Semple
as Girl (voice)
Richard Romanus
as Harry Canyon (voice)
Directed by Harold Whitaker, Jimmy T. Murakami, Pino Van Lamsweerde +7 more