Rotten
A lightweight fanboy valentine for ostensibly heavyweight music.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2005 · 1h 31m · R
Documentary, Music
Directed by
Sam Dunn
,
Scot McFadyen
,
Jessica Joy Wise
Overview
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, power metal, Nu metal, glam metal, thrash metal, black metal, and death metal. Dunn uses a family-tree-type flowchart to document some of the most popular metal subgenres. The film also explores various aspects of heavy metal culture.
Director and cast
- Sam Dunn Director
- Scot McFadyen Director
- Jessica Joy Wise Director
- Sam Dunn as Himself
- Chris Adler as Himself
- Tom Araya as Himself
- Gavin Baddeley as Himself
- Blasphemer as Himself
- Randy Blythe as Himself
- Alice Cooper as Himself
- Pamela Des Barres as Herself
- Bruce Dickinson as Himself
- Ronnie James Dio as Himself
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Full of splendid social and psychological insights.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
The metal scene emerges throughout the documentary as the recruitment center of an army of misfits, where the outcasts of the world can seek each other out based on their love of the angsty, eardrum-destroying tunes their parents warned them about.
Erin Meister, Boston Globe
Fresh
This documentary about one of the most loathed, lampooned and beloved music genres isn't the kind of film to rock your world, though it may well inspire laughter.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh
It'll make you want to dig out your Whitesnake T-shirt. It might even convince Tipper Gore that heavy metal thunder is all in good fun.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
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