"The ONLY Metal comedy you will ever need to see!”
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Metalheads - The Good, The Bad, The EVIL
SCREENER/APPROX. 82 MINS/2007/USA UNRATED
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Written, directed, produced, edited, starring and probably catered by as well, Bill Zebub comes on like a yankee metal slightly nuts version of
comedian Bill Bailey at times but damn he’s good at it. This film is a slice of the life of a couple of metal head schmucks who do nothing much at all
but get wasted, dream about making money, look at girls, take trips, drink, look at girls, get wasted… in short, this is pretty much what most of us
are doing.
Our main men, Bill and Rich are a coupla losers who need to grow up but don’t seem in any hurry to do that. Bill’s girlfriend Elaine is constantly
giving him shit cos he’s got a little dick, no car and no future. In fact she’s even thinking that maybe she should “date outside of metal.” That’s
how desperate she is! Rich, well he’s just there for the ride, that dependable mate with a car and some sort of common sense or at least more
sense than Bill anyway. You know the guy, he’s at the bar now buying you a beer cos you’re short of cash and he’ll drop you off home later and
he’s always around to get drunk with you and play some air guitar… that guy. So we’ve got Bill and Rich and Elaine. Bill keeps finding money
laying around, things just don’t go anywhere but you’ll recognise every sentence and every person and then when Elaine kisses Rich cos she
thinks that maybe he’s not a bad guy, well then things go a bit haywire but you sort of knew it would happen cos it did just Saturday at the bar
didn’t it and you still aren’t sure what you’re going to say to your mate when you see him next. Bill ends up tangled with a mad metal head, who
tells him he’s been “living with the volume turned down.” and now it’s time to get things rolling. It’s party time now, with naked girls, light
bondage, stealing, drinking, revenge and Bill looking well out of his depth. Meanwhile Elaine is fantasizing about a muscle bound, well groomed
metal head with a car and a job but though her hand is getting right into it her heart belongs to that idiot Bill. Billy boy soon realizes that he
doesn’t need the volume turned up that loud and goes back to his friends but it just ain’t gonna be a happy ending.
There’s a real nasty, misogynistic sting in the tail of this movie that at first sort of disturbed me but I realized that it had to be there. If we’re
honest, the whole metal scene is in general, bloketown. It is misogynistic, it is sexist, it is dumber than a box of politicians – that’s why we like it.
We want naked women and beer, loud music, perennial adolescence and a shit hot guitar solo. Bill recognizes that but he’s not afraid to just make
us just a touch uncomfortable about it too.
There’s some great laughs in this film, there’s those moments where you go, shit, that’s me! There’s a lot of very recognizable people and ideas
and actions and you’ll be sitting there shaking your head thinking “what a goose!” before you then realise that you’ve done exactly the same
thing, or your mate has or the guy who plays in that band that you see every weekend has… For a low budget, labour of love, one man band this
is pretty damn good.
No one’s a great actor but there’s a certain natural feel to the whole flick and I get the feeling there was a lot of improvising as well. The girls are
hot looking, the boys are dweebs, the soundtrack rocks… this is metal, this is the real world as lame as that world may be at times. No super
heroes, no government conspiracies, no zombies, no future… I can’t recommend this dumb ass, no nothing, going nowhere movie high enough.
Forget Hollywood, the low budget/no budget scene is where it’s all happening now.
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This tragi-comedy is rife with pathos, "metal" style. Well, one man's misfortune is another man's comedy. Low-brow viewers will marvel at the abundant hilarity, while the more learned among us will savor the hidden metaphysics, or should we say, METALphysics? IF you are a metalhead, see your lifestyle glorified. If you hate metalheads, then see the lifestyle vilified. You will see exactly what you want to see, for Bill Zebub is a wizard.
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RELEASE DATE
FORMAT Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
VIDEO Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
AUDIO English: Dolby Digital 2.0
SUBTITLES n/a
STUDIO Bill Zebub
YEAR 2007
No. DISCS 1
REGION 1
GENRE Comedy
WEBSITE Click Here
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DIRECTED BY Bill Zebub
WRITTEN BY Bill Zebub
CAST Bill Zebub, Emily Thomas, Tekla Vassie, Heidi Crawford, Carl Williamson...
SPECIAL FEATURES * Bloopers * Trailers * Jackassery
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