Fantastic movie! Easily one of my favorites. I remember I used to have the soundtrack on cassette tape, and I wore that thing out once upon a time. Love Andrew Strong's voice.

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Sure it's not the most in depth look at the Metal genre, but Sam Dunn did manage to cram a lot of stuff into a 90 minute documentary. The interviews with Mayham at Wacken and Gaahl from Gorgoroth are worth watching it alone. Also watching Dio take as many digs at Gene Simmons was quite entertaining as well. I'll post the two interviews just because they're that funny, but if you're a fan of metal than it's definitely something to check out.

have you checked out Dunn's documentary after that, Global Metal? he made it after he got responses from A Headbanger's Journey from places like China, Brazil and Iran, and he goes to alot of those places and talks about the metal scene there, definately worth watching as well.

of course, it's stilling on my DVD shelf collecting dust right now. I liked it, but not as much as Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Some of the bands were pretty good, but some were just... bad, however it was cool seeing just how much metal has influenced youth cultures around the world. A good book to read after watching that is Heavy Metal Islam, which I would put up in the P.I.F. thread, however I gave it to a friend for Christmas.

hmmm, ok, i'll check it out.

I wasn't all that impressed with A Headbangers Journey myself. I don't think he did enough to endear outsiders into liking metal and instead made a metal doc for Metalheads and I learnt nothing new. I much prefer Get Thrashed myself.

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It was kind of a fun movie partially due to the fact it was loaded with a lot of cheese. The story line was pretty interesting - Futuristic society where the majority of the population are vampires, capture humans to harvest their blood. Now their supply is diminishing and they aim to find a blood substitute before everyone begins to go insane and mutate from blood deprivation. I'm still confused as to why the vampires explode when stabbed in the chest though...

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I was really expecting a total cheese fest with this but this is one of the best zombie films I have seen for a few years. It tips a reverential hat to the genre but the films settings and at at times genuine menace makes it stand head and shoulders above most B movies of it's ilk. If you dig zombies then this is a must see. It is a Norwegian film though so those of you who abhor subtitles probably won't enjoy it.

watched this, then went and downloaded albums by Testament and Voivod. It's been a thrashy weekend.

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Ladri di biciclette / the Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Finally dun saw it. Depressed, social-realist moral of sorts (principally 'thanks alot, war' and 'don't nick stuff!') filmed in post-war Italy. The cast comprises entirely of non-professional actors. There is an oblique scene with what looked like German Jesuits or something talking to eachother over the Antonio and his son; and generally our protagonists spend the film struggling to keep their heads above water and maintain their morals in the face of widespread desperation caused by the unemployment. The scene in the church is also interesting. I really enjoy the simplicity of these sorts of late 40's international films, it gets right to the nitty gritty and reflects social issues of the time/location. So you are moved and you maybe even learn summat, genial!

Rome Open City fella ;)

Glad u enjoyed the Thrash doc too.