Looking into the orb known as the Loc-Nar, the girl sees how it has influenced societies throughout time and space. It introduces itself to the terrified girl as 'the sum of all evils'. When he opens his case, a green, crystalline sphere rises out and melts him. In the framing story, the astronaut Grimaldi arrives at home, where he is greeted by his daughter. An astronaut seated in the car then begins descending through Earth's atmosphere, landing in a desert canyon. The bay doors open, releasing a 1960 Corvette. The title sequence story opens with a Space Shuttle orbiting the Earth. Ī sequel titled Heavy Metal 2000 was released in 2000 and received negative reviews.īased on the comic of the same name by Dan O'Bannon and Thomas Warkentin. The film's influential soundtrack was packaged by music manager Irving Azoff and included several popular rock bands and artists, including Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Sammy Hagar, Don Felder, Cheap Trick, DEVO, Journey, and Nazareth, among others. Despite receiving mixed reviews by film critics on its initial release, the film was a modest success at the box office and has since achieved cult status. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit.

The film is an anthology of various science fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is 'the sum of all evils'. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky. Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton, produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film.

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