Heavy Metal
A step beyond science fiction.
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
- Director
- Gerald Potterton
- Signature
- Wonder · Action · Craft
- Worldwide
- $20M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
20 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Heavy Metal actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
Where to watch
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Heavy Metal returned 2.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $9M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $20M
- Release date
- Aug 7, 1981
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Hungarian
- Country
- Canada, United States of America
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