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    Heavy Metal (1981)

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    Science fiction, sword-and-sorcery, violence, sex, drug culture and humour all featured in varying degrees in Heavy Metal, an animated feature that took its title from the adult fantasy magazine of the same name.

    An astronaut takes home a glowing green orb for his daughter but the orb kills him and traps the girl.

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    Claiming to be the personification of all evil, the malevolent sphere – known as the Loc-Nar – frightens the little girl by showing her a number of weird and fantastic stories it has influenced.

    Of the six segments that comprised the film, one involving an un-heroic cab driver in a futuristic New York, and another in which a young bookworm is transformed into an inter-galactic stud, were the best.

    The others, including an alien-type yarn of doomed B-17 pilots, a comedy Hulk-style send-up, and a fantasy in which a Pentagon secretary is abducted by a flying saucer, had less of an edge to them but benefited from some striking animation.

    The voices for the animation included those of Harold Ramis, John Candy and Eugene Levy.

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    Grimaldi
    Don Francks
    Harry Canyon
    Richard Romanus
    Rudnick
    Al Waxman
    Alien/Henchman
    Harvey Atkin
    Desk Sergeant
    John Candy
    Whore 1
    Glenis Wootton Gross
    Whore 2
    Marilyn Lightstone
    Dan/Den
    John Candy
    Queen
    Marilyn Lightstone
    Katherine Wells
    Jackie Burroughs
    Ard
    Martin Lavut
    Norl
    August Schellenberg
    Capt. Lincoln P. Sternn
    Eugene Levy
    Lawyer Charlie
    Joe Flaherty
    Regolian
    Douglas Kenney
    Gloria
    Alice Playten
    Robot
    John Candy
    Zeke
    Harold Ramis
    Barbarian Leader
    Vlasta Vrana
    Taarak
    August Schellenberg
    Hanover Fiste
    Rodger Bumpass
    Dr. Anrak
    Rodger Bumpass

    Directors
    Gerald Potterton
    Jimmy Teru Murakami
    Harold Whitaker
    Pino Van Lamsweerde
    Jack Stokes
    Paul Sabella
    Julian Szuchopa
    Barrie Nelson
    Lee Mishkin
    John Halas
    John Bruno

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