Music Box Films, in association with its Doppleganger Releasing label, has locked into May 25 for the domestic Blu-ray debut of Finnish filmmakers Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s send-up of the “Nordic Heavy Metal” scene, Heavy Trip.
Maybe it is those long winters, the endless summer nights, the Viking legends … the cold. Name it, but the Nordic countries have this thing for head-banging heavy metal; black metal, and it lends itself to all sorts of filmmaking fun.
Heavy Trip started working the festival circuit in early 2018 with its South by Southwest Film Festival debut and then just continued on and on … and on. They were having so much fun with this offbeat comedy that it got booked in virtually every film festival around — around the world at that — during the entirety of 2018 and then continued its merry film festival adventure during 2019 … Heavy Trip even had its Japanese theatrical rollout in December of 2019. We all know what happened during the first quarter of 2020, so now, after all of these months, Heavy Trip will be available, finally, on Blu-ray.
It’s a road trip, an unexpected road trip at that. Turo Moilanen (Johannes Holopainen — Force of Habit, All the Sins, etc.) is the lead vocalist of Impaled Rektum, an amateur metal band that pretty much makes noise in the basement and passes the time just hanging out. Slackers, heavy-metal slackers; Finnish heavy-metal slackers … it’s a good life, as far as dreaming goes!
In any case, they hit upon a sound and one thing leads to another and they get a surprise invitation to perform at a festival in Norway. Suddenly, Impaled Rektum (say that three times with a straight face) is the talk of the town … they haven’t really done anything yet, but fame is at their doorstep.
Let the road trip begin … destination Norway! But, as we all know, it is not about the destination, but the getting there and Turo and Impaled Rektum have their own, unique, way of “getting there.” That’s the fun.
Bonus goodies include deleted scenes, a blooper reel, the featurette titled “Real Heavy Metal Bands React to Impaled Rektum,” the road trip to Austin, Texas (seven webisodes), the music video, “Flooding Secretions” and the “karaoke version” titled “Jump Into My Net.”
Heavy Trip is in Finnish with English subtitles.
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