Metalhead

Name: Metalhead
Genre: Drama
Released: March 20, 2015
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 79

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Cinelicious Pics | Release Date: March 20, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: A decade after a farming accident takes the life of her heavy metal music-obsessed older brother, Hera (Thora Bjorg Helga) transforms into a sexy, surly headbanger and DIY musician, dressed in black leather and a Slayer t-shirt, clutching her dead brother’s electric guitar as she howls anthems of rage to a barn full of cows. SeeminglyA decade after a farming accident takes the life of her heavy metal music-obsessed older brother, Hera (Thora Bjorg Helga) transforms into a sexy, surly headbanger and DIY musician, dressed in black leather and a Slayer t-shirt, clutching her dead brother’s electric guitar as she howls anthems of rage to a barn full of cows. Seemingly trapped in a haunted landscape of slaughterhouses and barren winter fields, making all the wrong choices in her life – including coming on to the local priest and sleeping with her platonic best friend – Hera slowly, painfully comes to terms with her family’s loss and the sound of her own true voice.… Expand

Director: Ragnar Bragason

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Michael Nordine

Mar 19, 2015

The film deftly marries the essence of the music to a moving coming-of-age framework. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Apr 10, 2015

The clichés at its core make Metalhead something less than a full-bore, head-banging triumph. But it does perform the service of reminding us that even Judas Priest is capable of saving souls, and any film that features a cross-generational dance-off to Megadeth's "Symphony of Destruction" can't be all bad. Read full review

John DeFore

Mar 19, 2015

Metalhead is uninterested in caricature or easy laughs, and its embodiment of guitar-hero obsession is one much more closely resembling someone you knew in high school, albeit someone who's had an exceptionally hard time dealing with childhood trauma. Read full review

Andy Webster

Mar 19, 2015

It taps into something universal, and very precious, about loss, art and adolescent rebellion. Read full review

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MAX4D

Nov 16, 2020

Metal music is a part of my life. Metal music is another world of music. This is a good movie

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LoletinAlexis

Dec 21, 2018

Metalhead (Málmhaus) is a good movie. There are scenes and subplots that I think are totally redundant, apart from the immediate need for the inclusion of different scenes and the clarification of others that have not been fully clarified in order to enter more into what this audiovisualMetalhead (Málmhaus) is a good movie. There are scenes and subplots that I think are totally redundant, apart from the immediate need for the inclusion of different scenes and the clarification of others that have not been fully clarified in order to enter more into what this audiovisual work tells us.… Expand

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SEROJ

Jun 28, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As a metalhead myself i have to say that i expected a bit more. I think we needed more scenes with the brother, what happened to parents' relationship, more scenes with the band at the end and probably what happened to Knutur after the break up and the last concert. Also there were many unnecessary scenes, but overall i think its a good movie to watch at least once.… Expand

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