Directed by: Gerald Potterton
Stars: Don Francks, Richard Romanus, John Candy
Language: English + Commentary (2nd track) | Subtitles: English (embed)
Country: Canada | Imdb Info | Ar: 1.85:1 | Brrip
Description: A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
Preview theatrical version
+ Carl Macek reading his book “Heavy Metal: The Movie” (1999) (3rd track)
5.06GB | 90:20mins | 1920×1036 | mkv | English | Sub: English
https://tezfiles.com/file/abd073d1fb133/Heavy.Metal.1981.theatrical.mkv
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Preview rough cut
+ commentary by Carl Macek (2nd track)
2.98GB | 90:19mins | 1456×1080 | mp4 | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/e8edc451059eb/Heavy.Metal.1981.roughcut.mp4
====bluray extras====
Imagining Heavy Metal” 1999 documentary
231MB | 35:39mins | 720×576 | mp4 | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/95fc872020685/Imagining.Heavy.Metal.1999.mp4
Deleted Scene – Neverwhere Land sequence
26MB | 4:02mins | 720×576 | mp4 | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/3c2c2c4bf7f0a/Hvmtl.Neverwhere.mp4
Deleted Scene – Alternate framing story (with optional commentary by Carl Macek (1999)
23MB | 2:36mins | 720×576 | mp4 | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/ac2ace70b61c1/Hvmtl.Alternate.mp4
This upload resurrected the Orb back from the ’80s. In a deviant way it was only asking for an FHD upgrade of the sequel, here: https://rarelust.com/heavy-metal-2000-2000/
Especially The Fifth Element (1997) that stole the story.
This classic is better than anything that has come out of Hollywood in the past 30 years.
Imagine someone complaining a movie is sexist. It’s hilarious watching woke people and their insane nonsense.
It’s funny and remarkably stupid.
Eh nothing wrong with calling something sexist if you find it sexist. No art should be sheltered from discussion or criticism but admittedly debating the merits of decades old exploitation movies of a type that aren’t really made anymore on a site largely dedicated to sharing such movies is a bit odd.
Not to be a killjoy, but this movie is upsettingly sexist. Not only are the women objectified, but often murdered. The plot is unfathomable as the orb thing wins in the end. It makes every story pointless.
Someone explain it. Why is the orb important exactly? The soundtrack, eclectic enough, is buried in the movie to the point of it being a distraction.
Yeah, the cartoons are sexy in a ‘draw over the actors’ Bakshi kinda way, but it’s also retarded and sickening. What a way to salute a break-frame magazine that spawned the careers of many artists including those who worked on Alien and Star Wars.
I say skip it. If it were good? They’d a made a sequel. It’s Canadian. That must explain it.
Well, there is a sequel. So I guess by your own logic, it is good.
Honestly, you may just be too young to get it. This film was a moment in time. Something with this vibe and flavor hadn’t been done before. And it is a literal and faithful page to screen adaptation of a single issue of Heavy Metal (which it seems you like?). It’s not supposed to congeal narratively in a traditional way. It’s a series of rock vignettes loosely connected by an eldritch entity we don’t understand or trust.
It may be sexist, but only as much as any other genre piece from the late 70s/early 80s. And if we’re being honest, it’s actually a lot tamer than a bunch of the genre fare that came out in the five years prior. It’s something we should be critical of, but also understand it’s time and place. (Also to be a bit pedantic, it feels a little performative to call out this film for being sexist, and then use the r-word in the same breath.)
To sum up, it’s totally cool if it’s not your thing, but you have to understand that’s a ‘you’ thing. I don’t like Citizen Kane, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was a seminal piece that holds a very important place in the pantheon of film.
“this movie is upsettingly sexist. Not only are the women objectified, but often murdered”, this applies to this website or this movie. Rarelust is Canadian (I think)!
PS: In hindsight I’d skip the film (note definition of cult movie of a film), never was a fan of Metal Hurlant, the ‘80s cyberpunk comics (Bilal) or adult comics the likes of Manara, Bacilero (Talking Head), Marcello (Nuit Barbare), Martin Veyron (L’Amour Propre) this one was fascinating and educational btw, or even Wally Wood’s touch on Disney. If I’d choose one cyberpunk film this would be Blade Runner (1982), even spawned a sequel 35 years later. When it first hit the screen nobody liked it, was too sexist.
Said “sequel” is called “HEAVY METAL: FAK II”, and it’s mainly a vehicle for the late Julie Strain (Fak II is her original creation), so aside from the ‘Branding’ as a “HEAVY METAL” animated movie, to me–as a fan of the Magazine ITSELF, and the ORIGINAL Film–I think it’s “in name only”. Just my opinion, is all.
Pfft! found the manlet complaining about wahmen being ¨objectified¨. Why are you even here, you woke clown? go and drink your soy latte and fap to gay pr0n instead
If you’re gonna complain about sexism you probably also shouldn’t be using the word “retarded” as an insult.
Nice bait
As was already pointed out, there very much was a sequel. In fact, the series “Love & Robots” was originally also part of the Heavy Metal franchise. Also…this is Rarelust. Have you found nothing else on the site objectionable thus far? LOL. No porn or anime? You decided to pick on the animated flick that was revolutionary in its day.
thanks
One of my most rewatched and beloved childhood faves. The extras, especially that commentary on the rough cut are like crack for nerds. Looking forward to the book commentary track. Here’s my Letterboxd review:
So if Steve Jobs was inspired by the technology of Star Trek in his youth, I have to think that Elon Musk drew inspiration from everything in Heavy Metal. If that Loc-Nar is real, Musk’s probably got it safely encased in carbon steel somewhere. Its powers could explain his meteoric out-of-the-blue rise to wealth and power. I’m kidding…a little.
Pretty much ditched traditional Saturday morning cartoons in 1982 when I saw this and so much more premiere on First Choice Pay TV. Thank you CRTC for the Canadian content requirement which introduced me not only to this fine artistic achievement, but also to the early films of David Cronenberg and Canuxploitation generally.
First Choice was the crazy lenient babysitter that every kid in the neighborhood without a box on their TV set envied. Although you didn’t have to stay up late to see content like this on First Choice (you did have to stay up late to see their Playboy programming, and having my first VCR and knowing how to program it sure helped). Remember watching plenty of R-rated content before sunrise thanks to all the new tech in my life back then.
My opinion of this flick tends to grow over time and seeing it projected again in restored HD is almost revelatory. There are so many Easter eggs in the form of visual gags or naughty shapes that you might easily miss on first watch, especially in our lo-fi predigital era. This remains not only my top animated film, but probably my favorite anthology ever, too. Don’t forget the amazing voice talent. John Candy is easily identifiable in his multiple characters, and the late Percy Rodriguez who’s best known for his foreboding voice-overs on the Jaws trailers and spots. He gives the Loc-Nar a voice to rival Darth Vader. I didn’t recognize Eugene Levy as blowhard Captain Sternn before this re-watch.
Favorite stories change every time. Harry Canyon with its whole post apocalyptic Taxi Driver vibe and femme fatales storyline always works as a forerunner to other mancave sci-fi staples like Blade Runner and The Fifth Element. Fans of female revenge flicks ought to perk up for that final story, as Tarnna is definitely the strong silent type and she kicks nearly as much ass as the soundtrack does. Sammy Hagar, Cheap Trick, Devo…come on. This is the stuff dreams are made of.
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