Heavy Metal is an animated anthology film based on the magazine of the same name. The film explores many genres, such as sci-fi, fantasy, horror, film noir and bizarre combinations of all of these. The soundtrack includes Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Nazareth, Journey, Blue Oyster Cult and many more. The result of this bizarre combination of elements is incredibly chaotic, nonsensical and trashy. Yet somehow, for the most part, the film seems to work. It feels like the fantasies of a 14 year-old boy being portrayed in very crude animation and the result is fascinating. This could have easily been an epic work of pop and trash art, but it never quite reaches that level. It is still completely entertaining though.
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Alice, Sweet Alice
(1976)
The first half of the film works well but is unfortunately undone by the uninteresting plot twists.
21 February 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I can remember first seeing the image of a girl in a yellow raincoat wearing a translucent mask and thinking it was one of the creepiest things I had ever seen. I was very curious to finally watch the film that contained this frightening image. Alice, Sweet Alice starts off very shocking and very dramatic in the first half. The story of a young girl suspected of having murdered her younger sister during first communion was horrifying and at times difficult to watch. Unfortunately the plot deviates from that storyline and the movie loses most of it's emotional resonance and becomes yet another silly slasher film. The first half of the film works well but is unfortunately undone by the uninteresting plot twists.
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