Film

Heavy Metal 1981

Directed by Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, John Halas, Julian Harris, Jimmy T. Murakami, Barrie Nelson, Paul Sabella, Jack Stokes, Pino Van Lamsweerde, Harold Whitaker

  • Animation, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
  • 90 min
  • R

A step beyond science fiction.

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

AnimationScience FictionAdventureFantasyMusicflying cartaxiheavy metalbased on comicdrug userotoscopingadult animation

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Character

Unpretentious, plot-driven, open-ended and bleak.

  • unpretentiousprestige
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • warmbleak
  • gravecomic

Who loves it, who doesn't

The Prestige HunterThe Prestige Hunter: loved by 5The Prestige Hunter: disliked by 15 / 1The Genre DevoteeThe Genre Devotee: loved by 44The SincereThe Sincere: loved by 33The Comfort SeekerThe Comfort Seeker: loved by 1The Comfort Seeker: disliked by 11 / 1The CartographerThe Cartographer: loved by 22The ProvocateurThe Provocateur: loved by 22The IronistThe Ironist: disliked by 10 / 1loved (4★+)disliked (2.5★ or less)

33 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Ironists.

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