Metal Horror Trash

October 22, 2023 4:54 PM

A Top 10 Best Worst Heavy Metal Horror Movies (SLYT)
posted by Artw (20 comments total)

Yet another genre cruelly cut short by the Montreal Protocol.
posted by mittens at 5:34 PM on October 22, 2023 [3 favorites]

Might have to rewatch the Rifftrax of Rock n Roll Nightmare tonight (I would never be so foolhardy as to watch it straight.)
posted by Horace Rumpole at 5:57 PM on October 22, 2023 [2 favorites]

this is fucking awful in the best possible way. I feel I've stumbled upon some obvious but thus far invisible (to me) cultural connective tissue. And it's good.

thank you, Artw
posted by philip-random at 9:51 PM on October 22, 2023

from about fifteen minutes in:

it remains entertaining largely because the music's authentic, the run time's limited and the characters are so likeable. It's like hanging out with a bunch of particularly nice kids who've been left home alone and stayed up way past their bedtime on a sugar binge

concerning Death Metal Zombies
posted by philip-random at 10:57 PM on October 22, 2023 [1 favorite]

Aaand it's gone.
posted by rhizome at 12:16 AM on October 23, 2023

Not sure if it had a hiccup but it still seems to be there for me.
posted by Artw at 7:33 AM on October 23, 2023 [1 favorite]

and for me.
posted by philip-random at 8:23 AM on October 23, 2023

I would never be so foolhardy as to watch it straight

Uh wut? Its one of the great Canadian films of the 80s. Jon Mikl Thor is a legend.

The video does cover some excellent deep cuts of this excellent genre. Worth your time.
posted by Ashwagandha at 8:38 AM on October 23, 2023 [2 favorites]

As acknowledged in the intro, neither Wild Zero nor Deathgasm are bad movies (and are thus not in the main part of this video), I just wanted to cut in and say they're both pretty great and you should watch both.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 12:40 PM on October 23, 2023

TIL there were heavy metal horror movies...?
posted by tubedogg at 1:01 PM on October 23, 2023 [1 favorite]

I knew one of the main actors in Death Metal Zombies, but I had no idea that this was a whole genre. So much cheesy 80s goodness.
posted by Billy Rubin at 7:02 PM on October 23, 2023

I meant to do a whole FPP about this channel. His multiple series on various blockbuster/franchise clones are incredible. He goes so much deeper than most so-called "obscure movie" lists online. It's all worth watching in part because his love for trash and no-budget creativity is so apparent.
posted by slimepuppy at 3:29 AM on October 24, 2023 [2 favorites]

Probably more than one FPPs worth of material in their TBH. The alien/aliens ones turn out to be great.

Also you will see that one effects shot from Battle Beyond the Stars a bunch of times.
posted by Artw at 8:45 AM on October 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

I loved the Bondsploitation episode. There's something joyful in the incredible creativity and originality put into films that wholesale lift characters, set pieces and plots from Bond movies. The film industry embodiment of "I'll copy your homework but I'll tweak it so it looks like I'm not".
posted by slimepuppy at 9:10 AM on October 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

(Please do not let this FPP stop anFPP on that happening, it’s totally worth it)
posted by Artw at 9:12 AM on October 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

FWIW, Battle Beyond the Stars had production design, art design, and special effects by James Cameron, yes, that one, who apparently worked non-stop on it with hardly any sleep, and I think the effort shows, a lot of stuff in that film looks great, much better what you normally get on a fairly low budget, some of it up to the level of what ILM was doing around the same time.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 11:22 AM on October 24, 2023 [2 favorites]

They certainly got their moneys worth on it, given all the reuse.
posted by Artw at 9:21 PM on October 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

Other great Cameron/Corman moment include this great looking tunnel in Galaxy of Terror, which is made of burger boxes.
posted by Artw at 9:27 PM on October 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

I could have swore 976-EVIL was a heavy metal slasher, but the IMDb pictures just look like kids these/those days. Maybe it was something else in the '88 era.
posted by rhizome at 1:09 AM on October 25, 2023

Artw: Other great Cameron/Corman moment include this great looking tunnel in Galaxy of Terror, which is made of burger boxes.

It's pretty great, he continued this trend of recycling in The Terminator, where Arnold Schwarzenegger is made entirely of wood, yet acts the role perfectly.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:57 PM on October 25, 2023 [1 favorite]