"Better shit thighs than eternal constipation."
Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway -- the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival -- and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer to make their dreams a reality.
Johannes Holopainen
Turo Moilanen
Samuli Jaskio
Lotvonen
Antti Tuomas Heikkinen
Jynkky
Max Ovaska
Pasi / Xytrax
Minka Kuustonen
Miia
Ville Tiihonen
Jouni Tulkku
Kai Lehtinen
Kujanpää
Chike Ohanwe
Oula
Pirjo Lonka
Nursing Home Pirjo
Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway -- the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival -- and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer to make their dreams a reality.
**_Quirky and amusing spoof of the metal subculture in northern Europe_** An extreme metal band in rural Finland gets word that they might play at a festival in Norway. But they first have to compose an original song and perform a local gig as a warm-up act. "Heavy Trip" (2018) is consistently entertaining, especially if you have experience in bands or the rock/metal scene. The Nordic locations are superb and it’s interesting catching references to specific bands, including t-shirts worn. I caught Overkill, Megadeth, Pantera, Death, Manowar, Testament, Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom and several black/death metal groups. I’m not sure when the events take place, but the band uses a cassette tape for their demo and black metal is the fad, so I’m thinking the 1990s. One band member is clearly wearing a NECROSHINE Overkill shirt and, since that particular album came out in 1999, I’m thinking the time frame is around that period. The film utilizes Nordic languages, I’m assuming Finnish (and maybe Swedish or Norwegian) with an occasional line in English. With no dubbing, English speakers will have to use the subtitles. I should add that a sequel debuted in 2024, called “Heavier Trip.” It runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot in Finland (Taivalkoski, Sipoo, Kirkkonummi and Helsinki) and, I think, Norway. GRADE: B
The world's hardest - and weirdest - heavy metal band Impaled Rektum is serving their sentence in Norway's nicest prison. They receive word that guitarist Lotvonen's parents' reindeer herding farm is about to come under the hammer. It will take a big gig and big money to save the farm. A breakout ensues and a trip to the world's biggest heavy festival, Wacken in northern Germany begins. The higher the target, the bigger the obstacles. This is what the boys will experience on their epic journey to the main stage of Wacken - every metalhead's heaven.
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the stakes are higher than ever for the now middle-aged Bill and Ted who set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it.
Kevin, Nick, and Joe Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their families.
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of "Wayne's World"—and he also wants Wayne's girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.
Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del Fuegos.
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!