When the pilot stumbles into the plane graveyard, you see a twin-engine plane with a circular antenna on top of the cockpit. That's a Lockheed Model 10 Electra. The plane flown by Amelia Earhart on he attempt to fly around the world. A nice little touch, I thought.
As well as a couple b-17s, a p38 lightning, an a6m2n Zeke "Rufe", a p51 mustang, an f6f hellcat, a j2m2 raiden, an f1m pete, a p40 warhawk, a p47 thunderbolt, a Vickers wellington and an f8f bearcat. That's as many as I can tell, lol yes I'm a nerd.
The plane graveyard appears to exist outside of time as evidenced by the fact that a jet is present. Really adds an extra dimension of weirdness to the scene
The original movie script heavily implies that the island does indeed exist outside time and reality, but in what capacity is up to interpretation. A lot of the story was cut, so only the sinister atmosphere of the island remains, which may not be a bad thing. Perhaps Skip didn't survive the raid after all, but went down with his other crew and is now stuck in pilot hell. That would gel with the overall Kubrickian feel of the story.
@@sweetbiscuitsntea The very end of the VHS version of Heavy Metal actually goes into some of the cut content. Including a run up to this story which covers all of human history as influenced by The Orb. It's funny that the B-17 is named Pacific Pearl but when looking at the cut content it's supposed to be a bombing mission over Europe. Sort of foreshadowing him ending up on a tropical island at the very end.
One of the interesting things to me (besides the horror story, which was excellent) was that these bombers weren't attacking Germany, but were likely involved in the Battle of the Bismark Sea, an attack on Japanese transport ships. While the battle was successful the B-17s were attacked repeatedly by A6M Zeroes and very heavy antiaircraft cover, which wreaked havoc until the defenses could be scattered. That's probably why this bomber was so heavily damaged; they were going up not against Bf-109s but Zeroes. It's also why when the captain abandoned the bomber he landed on a small island.
Historically japanese planes went up in the air with very diverse but generally worse armament than Bf-109s so I don't know what you're on about. Also why the Battle of the Bismark Sea? B17s were used extensively during the pacific war against airfields, and many of them were used during different night time air raids, so again are you just saying random shit? The only reason we know it's japan is because he lands on an island by the end and some planes vaguely ressemble Zeroes.
I love the attention to detail in the B-17 throughout this. The intercom system, the bomb bay, even the navigator station that most people would probably not think to include. Also captures the horror of being a B-17 crew member - before, of course, the orb hits and the dead rise.
@@Alxnick I hadn't noticed until you said that, but now I can't unsee it. . . Though you could excuse two simply because the nose isn't shown, so that's the navigator and bombedier accounted for, but they completely forgot the top gunner that sits in the cockpit.
@@potatoslayer69420 Forget tail gunner, ball turret gunners, were more exposed, vulnerable to the horrifying "Shräge musik" dorsal autocannons installed on German interceptors, and didn't have any parachutes. Just thinking of sitting for 8 hours in a tiny ball of glass gives me claustrophobia.
I gotta say even without the zombies, this situation would still be horrifying, that would make me have some serious survival guilt if I was that guy in the plane surrounded by all his fallen comrades 😔
My Dad was in 8th Air Force, Army Air Corp. He was ground crew/fireman(Ireland), he said "eventually you have to stop thinkin' about it"(in reference to removing crewman).
Longer. Heavy Metal was released in 1981, 36 years after the end of WW2 in 1945. Your comment was made 40 years after the movie’s release. It’s scary how fast time passes.
it's frustrating how a tense, visceral and fascinating scenario ends in a such cliffhanger and never got a continuation, it started so well. probably one of the saddest things in animated movies history and yet Heavy metal was become an obscure movie
@Thomas Yes, but Dan O'Bannon wrote his original story for B-17, originally titled ‘Gremlins,' back in the 1970s. Remember, all of the stories in Heavy Metal are based on stories previously published in Heavy Metal magazine and other publications. They weren't written specifically for the 1981 movie.
@@44excalibur Gremlins were WW2 urban legend. There is even 40s cartoon about Russian gremlins destroying German bomber with Hitler, and Gremlin vs Bugs Bunny. Gremlin was in Twilight Zone in 1963
@@DartLuke Yes, I'm well aware of that. lol Dan O'Bannon based this story off of the old WWII legends about gremlins, although Heavy Metal made them zombies for some reason.
I still remember spotting this jewel of a movie as a young adolescent boy in the 90s. I awoke at like 2 am and walked into my stepmoms room to find her asleep and this scene was playing... on HBO I think. I became immediately transfixed. Sitting in the darkness I watched till the end of the film. Became an instant favorite. Now at 38 it makes me nostalgic. A much simpler time that today almost seems like a dream. Sometimes I feel like we crossed into some parallel universe
I was 11 in 93 seeing this on Cinemax (thanks to local city TV guide and cinemax/HBO guide saying R-rated animated fantasy stories and i said cool) with other cool adult animation like Hy Good Looking, American Pop and vampire Hunter D as they became faves of mine. I even bought the VHS with CD soundtrack at 14 then blu in 2011 and gonna get the UHD 4K next month. I'll be 40. One of my fave fantasy movies and animated movies! and i had a crush on Taarna when i was a kid and teen as she was one of my animated heartthrobes as a kid and teen like Adora/Teela in He-Man/She-Ra, Scarlett on GI Joe, Jasmine on Aladdin, Jessica Rabbit, Belle, Ariel, Hello Nurse, Minerva Mink, Esmeralda in Hunchback(i saw it in theaters at 14) Tegra in Fire and Ice, Ellinore in Wizards, Crysta in Ferngully, Cleo on Heathcliff, Catwoman/Ivy/Harley/Talia/Red Claw on Batman TAS and more. I still dig her, lol.
@@RYMAN1321 Nope, seeing that nudity and sex in an animated movie was nothing like it i ever seen before in animated movie as a kid. And i saw animated graphic violence in other adult animation before 93 such as Wizards, Aeon Flux shorts on Liquid TV, Watership Down, Plague Dogs, Mcbane on Simpsons with Itchy and Scratchy and Fire and Ice. Even seen other adult animations as a kid like Rock and Rule, Simpsons, Bebe's Kids, Family Dog episode of Amazing Stories, Liquid TV, Fantastic Planet, Lightyears aka Gandahar, Twice upon a time, Starchaser and Warriors of the Wind aka Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. I seen r-rated stuff since i was 4 starting with Stand by Me in theaters with my family and watched Creepshow on video for Halloween with my family even Fright Night and Beverly Hils Cop on HBO in late 86. And at age 5 i saw Creepshow 2, Predator (on my 5th birthday), Lethal Weapon, Robocop, Prince of Darkness, Hellraiser, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Near Dark, Lost Boys, Running Man, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Critical Condition and Born in East LA in theaters 35 years ago to 6 year old me seeing The Blob remake, Die Hard, Above the Law, Hellraiser 2, Elm Street 4 (saw the first 3 on video with my family at 5), Bloodsport, Coming to Amerca, Halloween 4 (Saw the first 3 the previous year on video with my 2 big brothers and dad), Dead Heat, Rambo 3, Phantasm 2 (saw the first the previous year with my brothers on video), and so on. And me seeing this on cable at age 10 going on 11 is no different than 12 year old me seeing Pulp Fiction in theaters
I still remember where I lived, seeing the advertising for Heavy Metal. I made it a 'life mission' to see it at the theater. I did, opening day in Denver. Loved every minute of it!
I saw it at a theater in San Francisco, with the co-feature being the 1981 film "Dragonslayer" I was 10 years old, but my parents took me and my older brother to watch both films. They had no idea what was in-store for "Heavy Metal" hahaha But this segment messed me up back then..
I wish I was around to see it in the theatre, my uncle told me he went to go see it. And he gave me his copy of the soundtrack on vinyl, I love this segment and the one with the snorting aliens
We need more war films with this kind of soundtrack. I think rock 'n roll and heavy metal really emphasises the macabery of war better than huge pompus orchestral scores.
Not that I don't love this, but we actually do have a lot of stuff like this already, just not as heavy as this. What we really need more of is more period correct and year-correct songs in these scenes. There's an argument of "well there's no good songs from this time" and "songs from back then nobody knows" and even "the quality of songs made back then weren't good enough" for why they don't do it much, and that's all complete and utter bullshit retardation. None of those are even close to valid arguments at all.
These aren't war films but I suggest you watch fan-made Sabaton music videos on TH-cam. They're known for making songs about historical conflicts, most notably WW2 battles. their songs juxtaposed with war footage and films give them a more eerie vibe.
We already have way too much of Heavy Metal & Rock and Roll stuff for these things, what we need is ACTUAL period correct music for these scenes, no one is ever doing these scenes with original 40s swing, R&B, and pop by Gene Krupa or Benny Goodman, Joe Liggins or Count Basie, The Pied Pipers or The Modernaires or whatever else, the music that these airmen were actually listening to at the time. It's like the most obvious choice is a completely foreign concept to everyone. And yet people just act like it somehow wouldn't make a good scene, despite never trying it.
I love how this section of the movie can still haunt me, but the one question I always had was where the hell did the other skeletons hide while the co pilot was walking back? There were at least 5 bodies and not really any places to hide...
It would have just been the 2 waist gunners, the turret gunner and the tail gunner behind the bomb bay. The turret guy can't open the hatch from the inside. Guess the others moved forward on their way to the cockpit before the copilot returned from the tail. Yea, over-analyzing a zombie segment from a 40-year-old cartoon. :)
This still makes me feel like I did when I first beat CoD:WaW while home alone at night and was scared shitless by the introduction of their “fun new mini game”.
I had the same experience! Ten years old sitting on the couch. I was lulled into a false sense of security by the ending and got up to get some juice…I came back and the intro to zombies had just started!
War is Hell. People often get injured and even killed there. But with the Loc-Nar involved and bringing everybody who were killed back to life as evil vicious mindless killer man-eating zombies of their former selves, it becomes more so than it already is. Getting attack by zombies that used to be your allies before they were killed and turned into zombies. That would be a nightmare, but it would also makes a pretty awesome horror movie, either animated or live-action.
To this day these are some of the most scary, disturbing and downright disgusting reanimated corpses I’ve ever seen in an animated movie! The visceral attention to detail is awesome!
They used rotoscoping to create a lot of the animations in this film. Rotoscoping was beginning to be widely available to many animation studios at the time, so quite a few animated features (Fire and Ice is another good example) from this time utilized the technique. A very recent film that utilized rotoscoping was A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr, among others.. Its a good watch.. If only for the Alex Jones cameo...
What the navigator (voiced by Zal Yanovsky of The Lovin' Spoonful) said was "Come on, Shepard! Drop the f***ers and let's get the hell out of here!". If you watch the rough cut feature on the DVD, you can hear it clearly without music and sound effects.
I was a junior in HS when this came out. This movie and Fritz the Cat were staples at the drive-ins during the early 80s. Loved them both, but the music is really locked up with the imagery on this one. Can't hear many of the songs without still seeing the scenes in which they appear in my head.
Seen American Pop, Wizards, Watership Down, Fire and Ice, Hey Good Lookin, Fantastic Planet, Pink Floyd The Wall, Starchaser, Lightyears aka Gandahar, Rock and Rule Wicked City and Akira? other 70s and 80s adult animated movies
Watching it right now on Starz encore channel. Takes me back to sophomore year in HS. Midnight movies back in ‘81! A couple of beers and a doob with friends before buying tickets to see the flick. Great time, great friends!
Because of this movie one of the top things on my “bucketlist” was to fly in a B-17 bomber. I am happy to say I did about 8yrs ago when the Memphis Belle was touring in SoCal. And wow it was AMAZING
Holy shit I found it. I remember my dad and older brothers watching this together when I was really young. My dad said I was too young but I unlocked something!
The screenplay of this episode was based on script made by Dan O'Bannp the author of Alien, Return of Living Dead and Dark Star! A Genius of American sci-fi writing.
I love in movies and TV when they’re showing off some exotic equatorial or pacific jungle locale they always use kookaburra calls to enhance, I guess, the exotic nature of the scene. As an Australian living coastal and bush my whole life it cracks me up hearing our native bird show up in South America and in the greater pacific.
Idk why but that little detail where the guy on the radio got shot up then clenching his fist before taking his last breath really sticks out for me personally. Such a great movie. I would love to re a re-release with updated animations and background art
I was introduced to both films when I was seven, twenty-five now and I still love this. I wish B-17 was expanded on into a full length movie or at the very least a 30-45 minute film animated like this of course. Both of the Heavy Metal movies(yes I like Heavy Metal 2000) have such amazing shit going for them. The great concepts featured in the 1981 Anthology film all deserve their own dedicated films, expanding on what we got. Heavy Metal 2000, despite the cgi being utterly crap had a decent story that was just rushed in my opinion. I think we'd all benefit if Heavy Metal films had a revival, Robert Rodriguez as far as I know still has the film rights to Heavy Metal and wants to revive it, however who knows these days. Maybe if more people saw these films and the other adult animated films from before, more inspired people will come out.
I also would like more of a good thing but sometimes short and sweet is more of an impression and like the magazines intended to free up the imagination
Check out Love, Death and Robots on Netflix. It's David Finchers attempt at bringing back Heavy Metal. There's some great adult animated segments in there. Sonnie's Edge and Beyond the Aquila Rift are my favorites.
These are the scariest zombies ever. I mean, they are really strong (Breaking through a metal door in seconds) and are actually walking skulls with organs hanging xd
It seems like there was so much more detail and care put into animation during the 80s and 90s. It saddens me that new animators choose the easy route. Instead of putting their heart into it they just want to get it finished.
Some of the best animation and storyline I’ve seen…Heavy Metal always pushed the limits of reality and blended fantasy and horror perfectly….such detail too. i was a subscriber from their first issue and still have every copy plus the movie poster with Den … yeah, im a Fan!
Yes there was a hatch in the floor of the cockpit of a B17. Almost all Hollywood versions of aircraft cockpits show them to be living room huge. They are not. They’re incredibly cramped. I sat in the cockpit of an F15E Strike Eagle and barely fit into it.
So along time ago my mom and dad got a vhs copy of Heavy Metal, I was inthralled by the box cause so many questions so many ideas filled my head. My parents just said I'm not allowed to watch so I just held that box until we got home. Some years passed and I was around that age where I could watch rated R movies, sadly we didnt get a vhs tape but dad showed me this clip saying this was his favorite scene. Now this scene means so much to me since he's gone.
Masterpiece of animation.. saw this at the theater with an entire dorm floor of pretty lubed up college kids.. growing up as a war baby was always fascinated by WW2.. this piece combined the horror of war, blood and violence with sci-fi fantasy zombie horror.. a first in cinema..
Thanks for this. Knew I had seen this from telly or somewhere ages ago, and had tried to search for it couple of times in the last few years. Well, today I persevered through 15 search terms and lots of bad leads :D
Anyone know why the sound effects - the jump scare sound when captain opened the door and the growling of zombies as they were beating down the door were cut on the newer release? It's was my vhs 📼 Cinemax version which I'm now kickin myself in the arse for throwing it away
When the pilot stumbles into the plane graveyard, you see a twin-engine plane with a circular antenna on top of the cockpit. That's a Lockheed Model 10 Electra. The plane flown by Amelia Earhart on he attempt to fly around the world. A nice little touch, I thought.
Douglas Berry So Amelia Earhart's corpse is likely one of the undead? That's pretty awesome.
There's also an early US Navy Jet laying around there.
As well as a couple b-17s, a p38 lightning, an a6m2n Zeke "Rufe", a p51 mustang, an f6f hellcat, a j2m2 raiden, an f1m pete, a p40 warhawk, a p47 thunderbolt, a Vickers wellington and an f8f bearcat. That's as many as I can tell, lol yes I'm a nerd.
Learn something new everyday. Thank you!✌️
@Stargeneral410 still better than Oklahoma.
The plane graveyard appears to exist outside of time as evidenced by the fact that a jet is present. Really adds an extra dimension of weirdness to the scene
Weren't the jets already a thing around 1945? The one I noticed looks like Messeschmitt Me.262
At 6:36 there is what appears to be an F-4 phantom on the left side of the screen, that’s definitely not a WWII plane
The original movie script heavily implies that the island does indeed exist outside time and reality, but in what capacity is up to interpretation. A lot of the story was cut, so only the sinister atmosphere of the island remains, which may not be a bad thing. Perhaps Skip didn't survive the raid after all, but went down with his other crew and is now stuck in pilot hell. That would gel with the overall Kubrickian feel of the story.
@@sweetbiscuitsntea The very end of the VHS version of Heavy Metal actually goes into some of the cut content. Including a run up to this story which covers all of human history as influenced by The Orb. It's funny that the B-17 is named Pacific Pearl but when looking at the cut content it's supposed to be a bombing mission over Europe. Sort of foreshadowing him ending up on a tropical island at the very end.
Well the Loc Nar probably had something to do with that too.
Thing is, even without the supernatural stuff this is horrifying.
Because war is hell. People often gets injured and killed there.
What supernatural stuff
@@Gwestytears The zombie stuff that happens with the Loc-Nar.
No that stuff happened all the time in ww2
Thats why we got nazi zombies gamemode
One of the interesting things to me (besides the horror story, which was excellent) was that these bombers weren't attacking Germany, but were likely involved in the Battle of the Bismark Sea, an attack on Japanese transport ships. While the battle was successful the B-17s were attacked repeatedly by A6M Zeroes and very heavy antiaircraft cover, which wreaked havoc until the defenses could be scattered. That's probably why this bomber was so heavily damaged; they were going up not against Bf-109s but Zeroes. It's also why when the captain abandoned the bomber he landed on a small island.
Way to over analyze a great scene in a movie that was made for stoners.
@@3970danny bro thats exactly what stoners do though they watch and over analyze shit.
Well,.....they named it Pacific Peril........that was a clue.
Well in the last few seconds you can see a Japanese zero in the plane wreckage
Historically japanese planes went up in the air with very diverse but generally worse armament than Bf-109s so I don't know what you're on about. Also why the Battle of the Bismark Sea? B17s were used extensively during the pacific war against airfields, and many of them were used during different night time air raids, so again are you just saying random shit? The only reason we know it's japan is because he lands on an island by the end and some planes vaguely ressemble Zeroes.
I love the attention to detail in the B-17 throughout this. The intercom system, the bomb bay, even the navigator station that most people would probably not think to include. Also captures the horror of being a B-17 crew member - before, of course, the orb hits and the dead rise.
The detail is so well executed that it really stands out that the crew is three men short.
@@Alxnick I hadn't noticed until you said that, but now I can't unsee it. . .
Though you could excuse two simply because the nose isn't shown, so that's the navigator and bombedier accounted for, but they completely forgot the top gunner that sits in the cockpit.
Too bad they got a lot wrong with it, still
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@@potatoslayer69420 Forget tail gunner, ball turret gunners, were more exposed, vulnerable to the horrifying "Shräge musik" dorsal autocannons installed on German interceptors, and didn't have any parachutes. Just thinking of sitting for 8 hours in a tiny ball of glass gives me claustrophobia.
To this day, even after almost forty years, anytime I hear this song, my first thought is of B-17's flying through flak.
Agreed, I hear the song on my playlist as I am driving between LA and Vegas and this plays as the video in my head, every time.
I think of the parody version where Gerald from South Park is driving
I think of this and kenny in his thunder bird lol.
It was a severe impression for me at that time, I have the same feelings.
same here
1:59. I love the wind sound effect they did here with no other sounds. Just horrifying.
Very haunting
I wonder if this escene actually happened irl, the copilot going to check the crew status and finding all of them like that
@@zeta1960 Many times im sure
Yeah the wind is haunting to say the least
I watched this scene on LSD and it completely changed the way I viewed war even to this day.
I gotta say even without the zombies, this situation would still be horrifying, that would make me have some serious survival guilt if I was that guy in the plane surrounded by all his fallen comrades 😔
I think it will be more scary without Zombies
@@sglenny001 to show That mortal men are the most scary ones. Both in the Frontlines and the death camps.
@@okamijubei yeah
My Dad was in 8th Air Force, Army Air Corp. He was ground crew/fireman(Ireland), he said "eventually you have to stop thinkin' about it"(in reference to removing crewman).
because we would be suddenly tear apart by big anti-aerial rounds and ends up lmike our combate colleagues
It feels like a prelude to a better story than the rest of Heavy Metal.
This segment is IMHO the best of Heavy Metal, someone should make a movie based on this.
Also Skip should have ended up with Taarna as Skip with a .50 cal alongside Taarna in her segment would have been tight
Not really. The Locnar raised the dead all across the world the pilot died. Nothing more to tell except how the Locnar was destroyed.
Mr Falcon, have you forgotten all the animated T & A? Gee whiz this was incredible in 1981.
@@henryjames8654 it took me a while to understand this comment.
Heavy Metal was made just about as long ago now as WWII was when Heavy Metal was made.
Longer. Heavy Metal was released in 1981, 36 years after the end of WW2 in 1945. Your comment was made 40 years after the movie’s release. It’s scary how fast time passes.
@@wtcirrus this is a 80s animation right?
@@Nombrenooriginal1981
This scene alone needs its own story
There's a creepypasta about it. It's called Pacific Pearl
That island is where Iron Maiden’s Eddie came from
it's frustrating how a tense, visceral and fascinating scenario ends in a such cliffhanger and never got a continuation, it started so well. probably one of the saddest things in animated movies history and yet Heavy metal was become an obscure movie
it got a sequel in comic format
@@michaelbucher9001 a comic about the pilot's story?
who else thinks this would be a great concept for a horror movie?
It was. Dan O'Bannon wrote this story and it was one of his inspirations for writing Alien.
@Thomas Yes, but Dan O'Bannon wrote his original story for B-17, originally titled ‘Gremlins,' back in the 1970s. Remember, all of the stories in Heavy Metal are based on stories previously published in Heavy Metal magazine and other publications. They weren't written specifically for the 1981 movie.
@@44excalibur Gremlins were WW2 urban legend. There is even 40s cartoon about Russian gremlins destroying German bomber with Hitler, and Gremlin vs Bugs Bunny. Gremlin was in Twilight Zone in 1963
@@DartLuke Yes, I'm well aware of that. lol Dan O'Bannon based this story off of the old WWII legends about gremlins, although Heavy Metal made them zombies for some reason.
I like the idea of a movie being up in the air with no Escape and zombies that sound good
AT LAST. The full uncut scene as it was originally presented! Thank you!
I still remember spotting this jewel of a movie as a young adolescent boy in the 90s. I awoke at like 2 am and walked into my stepmoms room to find her asleep and this scene was playing... on HBO I think. I became immediately transfixed. Sitting in the darkness I watched till the end of the film. Became an instant favorite. Now at 38 it makes me nostalgic. A much simpler time that today almost seems like a dream. Sometimes I feel like we crossed into some parallel universe
I was 11 in 93 seeing this on Cinemax (thanks to local city TV guide and cinemax/HBO guide saying R-rated animated fantasy stories and i said cool) with other cool adult animation like Hy Good Looking, American Pop and vampire Hunter D as they became faves of mine. I even bought the VHS with CD soundtrack at 14 then blu in 2011 and gonna get the UHD 4K next month. I'll be 40.
One of my fave fantasy movies and animated movies! and i had a crush on Taarna when i was a kid and teen as she was one of my animated heartthrobes as a kid and teen like Adora/Teela in He-Man/She-Ra, Scarlett on GI Joe, Jasmine on Aladdin, Jessica Rabbit, Belle, Ariel, Hello Nurse, Minerva Mink, Esmeralda in Hunchback(i saw it in theaters at 14) Tegra in Fire and Ice, Ellinore in Wizards, Crysta in Ferngully, Cleo on Heathcliff, Catwoman/Ivy/Harley/Talia/Red Claw on Batman TAS and more. I still dig her, lol.
@@Johnlindsey289 So the nudity, sex and violence didn’t scar you ?
@@RYMAN1321
Nope, seeing that nudity and sex in an animated movie was nothing like it i ever seen before in animated movie as a kid. And i saw animated graphic violence in other adult animation before 93 such as Wizards, Aeon Flux shorts on Liquid TV, Watership Down, Plague Dogs, Mcbane on Simpsons with Itchy and Scratchy and Fire and Ice. Even seen other adult animations as a kid like Rock and Rule, Simpsons, Bebe's Kids, Family Dog episode of Amazing Stories, Liquid TV, Fantastic Planet, Lightyears aka Gandahar, Twice upon a time, Starchaser and Warriors of the Wind aka Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
I seen r-rated stuff since i was 4 starting with Stand by Me in theaters with my family and watched Creepshow on video for Halloween with my family even Fright Night and Beverly Hils Cop on HBO in late 86. And at age 5 i saw Creepshow 2, Predator (on my 5th birthday), Lethal Weapon, Robocop, Prince of Darkness, Hellraiser, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Near Dark, Lost Boys, Running Man, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Critical Condition and Born in East LA in theaters 35 years ago to 6 year old me seeing The Blob remake, Die Hard, Above the Law, Hellraiser 2, Elm Street 4 (saw the first 3 on video with my family at 5), Bloodsport, Coming to Amerca, Halloween 4 (Saw the first 3 the previous year on video with my 2 big brothers and dad), Dead Heat, Rambo 3, Phantasm 2 (saw the first the previous year with my brothers on video), and so on.
And me seeing this on cable at age 10 going on 11 is no different than 12 year old me seeing Pulp Fiction in theaters
I gotta say that I'm so jealous that I didn't lived my teenage years in the 90s
@@thepleb5652 you should be. U have nothing that is good.
I still remember where I lived, seeing the advertising for Heavy Metal. I made it a 'life mission' to see it at the theater. I did, opening day in Denver. Loved every minute of it!
I saw it at a theater in San Francisco, with the co-feature being the 1981 film "Dragonslayer" I was 10 years old, but my parents took me and my older brother to watch both films. They had no idea what was in-store for "Heavy Metal" hahaha But this segment messed me up back then..
I wish I was around to see it in the theatre, my uncle told me he went to go see it. And he gave me his copy of the soundtrack on vinyl, I love this segment and the one with the snorting aliens
We need more war films with this kind of soundtrack. I think rock 'n roll and heavy metal really emphasises the macabery of war better than huge pompus orchestral scores.
Not that I don't love this, but we actually do have a lot of stuff like this already, just not as heavy as this. What we really need more of is more period correct and year-correct songs in these scenes. There's an argument of "well there's no good songs from this time" and "songs from back then nobody knows" and even "the quality of songs made back then weren't good enough" for why they don't do it much, and that's all complete and utter bullshit retardation. None of those are even close to valid arguments at all.
These aren't war films but I suggest you watch fan-made Sabaton music videos on TH-cam. They're known for making songs about historical conflicts, most notably WW2 battles. their songs juxtaposed with war footage and films give them a more eerie vibe.
@@danielthefox2187 I know Sabaton, they just aren't my jam to be honest
@@Lagmaster33Call of Duty World at War and the movie Fury incorporated Heavy Metal and electronic music over orchestras.
We already have way too much of Heavy Metal & Rock and Roll stuff for these things, what we need is ACTUAL period correct music for these scenes, no one is ever doing these scenes with original 40s swing, R&B, and pop by Gene Krupa or Benny Goodman, Joe Liggins or Count Basie, The Pied Pipers or The Modernaires or whatever else, the music that these airmen were actually listening to at the time. It's like the most obvious choice is a completely foreign concept to everyone. And yet people just act like it somehow wouldn't make a good scene, despite never trying it.
One of the most badass tunes of the 80s
@Mike Galo what?? Are you serious??
Favorite segment from this old gem. Poor guy parachutes from zombies only to end up on an island full of them. Music adds a nice touch.
This was always a reoccurring nightmare for me as a kid.
Same to rember our dads showing us this I would always close my eyes
Finally a clean version! Definitely the best part of Heavy Metal.....that didn't have boobs in it.
South Park!
It’s the only part of the movie I like
@@silvercheetah92 you didn’t like the Taarna fights? She’s the main character pretty much.
This and the previous part prior to this, "Captain Sternn"
@@juliandavidhoffer2022 I consider Taarna the main character of The Heavy Metal Franchise
I remember how much this part scare me in these times. The technique to show the B-17 a little 3D was very special for that times.
I love how this section of the movie can still haunt me, but the one question I always had was where the hell did the other skeletons hide while the co pilot was walking back? There were at least 5 bodies and not really any places to hide...
It would have just been the 2 waist gunners, the turret gunner and the tail gunner behind the bomb bay. The turret guy can't open the hatch from the inside. Guess the others moved forward on their way to the cockpit before the copilot returned from the tail. Yea, over-analyzing a zombie segment from a 40-year-old cartoon. :)
@@billlee2726 yes, but you forgot the one guy he passed by before he got to the two gunners
@@billlee2726 but you do have a point about them going forward while the co pilot was killed in the middle
They forged ahead towards the cockpit
But the real question is, what happened to the bombardier, the nose gunner and the flight engineer
Easily the best part of the movie. Hell, it should've been the whole movie.
it's so sad it ends this way
it got a continuation recently in their comics
@@michaelbucher9001 where you can read it?
@@michaelbucher9001 yeah please, tell us where , unless you can tell us its scenario
@@michaelbucher9001this guy just dips without even elaborating further
This horror still holds up as a rare find ...
This still makes me feel like I did when I first beat CoD:WaW while home alone at night and was scared shitless by the introduction of their “fun new mini game”.
I had the same experience! Ten years old sitting on the couch. I was lulled into a false sense of security by the ending and got up to get some juice…I came back and the intro to zombies had just started!
the entire thing is a Masterpiece but that first minute is... just amazing.
War is Hell. People often get injured and even killed there. But with the Loc-Nar involved and bringing everybody who were killed back to life as evil vicious mindless killer man-eating zombies of their former selves, it becomes more so than it already is. Getting attack by zombies that used to be your allies before they were killed and turned into zombies. That would be a nightmare, but it would also makes a pretty awesome horror movie, either animated or live-action.
To this day these are some of the most scary, disturbing and downright disgusting reanimated corpses I’ve ever seen in an animated movie!
The visceral attention to detail is awesome!
I always thought the animation of the B-17 at 0:38 and 1:22 was badass!
They used rotoscoping to create a lot of the animations in this film. Rotoscoping was beginning to be widely available to many animation studios at the time, so quite a few animated features (Fire and Ice is another good example) from this time utilized the technique.
A very recent film that utilized rotoscoping was A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr, among others.. Its a good watch.. If only for the Alex Jones cameo...
And its still badass to this day
"C'mon, Skip! We're getting torn up! Let's get the hell outta-" that's actually what the guy at the radio station says.
What the navigator (voiced by Zal Yanovsky of The Lovin' Spoonful) said was "Come on, Shepard! Drop the f***ers and let's get the hell out of here!". If you watch the rough cut feature on the DVD, you can hear it clearly without music and sound effects.
I was a junior in HS when this came out. This movie and Fritz the Cat were staples at the drive-ins during the early 80s. Loved them both, but the music is really locked up with the imagery on this one. Can't hear many of the songs without still seeing the scenes in which they appear in my head.
Seen American Pop, Wizards, Watership Down, Fire and Ice, Hey Good Lookin, Fantastic Planet, Pink Floyd The Wall, Starchaser, Lightyears aka Gandahar, Rock and Rule Wicked City and Akira? other 70s and 80s adult animated movies
Probably my favorite segment, but they are all great.
My uncles flew in the B17s during WW2 every time I watch this scary scene from the 🎥 I always think about them.
Its just terrifying
When Kenny is high off Life
Lol
take somebody chees?
Dude, he's getting *really* high on life
Who didn't think of that episode thanks to the music?
He's getting like totally fucked up on life
This whole sequence hits you like a ton of bricks, when you just realize the stories are intense and real.
Watching it right now on Starz encore channel. Takes me back to sophomore year in HS. Midnight movies back in ‘81! A couple of beers and a doob with friends before buying tickets to see the flick. Great time, great friends!
This is one of my most favorite scenes and music in the movie.
4 decades later this movie and soundtrack have yet to be equaled...
Because of this movie one of the top things on my “bucketlist” was to fly in a B-17 bomber. I am happy to say I did about 8yrs ago when the Memphis Belle was touring in SoCal. And wow it was AMAZING
This movie was ahead of its time! Agree?
Holy shit I found it. I remember my dad and older brothers watching this together when I was really young. My dad said I was too young but I unlocked something!
The US Army Air Force lost more guys flying on board those things than Marines lost on the ground
@Channel X lmao what the hell are you talking about?
@Channel X you are looney lol
@Channel X I am glad you are here to lead them
@John Doe We need more people like you on the Internet. Thanks man.
@John Doe Thanks for fact checking, not enough people do that nowdays, you the real mvp
Theres barely room to breathe in a b17 ball turret but I love how his body was being whipped around in it like a huge mixing bowl lol
The screenplay of this episode was based on script made by Dan O'Bannp the author of Alien, Return of Living Dead and Dark Star! A Genius of American sci-fi writing.
He did Total Recall 1990, Lifeforce, The Resurrected and Dead and Buried too
This was state-of-the-art animated graphics back in the day.
Damn, I miss civilization!
I love in movies and TV when they’re showing off some exotic equatorial or pacific jungle locale they always use kookaburra calls to enhance, I guess, the exotic nature of the scene.
As an Australian living coastal and bush my whole life it cracks me up hearing our native bird show up in South America and in the greater pacific.
Navy "HooDoo" jet in there... 1938 "Peashooter" Trainer... Early P-51C... Zero "trainer"... Early B17....P38 Fighter.. P47 minus a wing...
This is the first graphic cartoon I ever watched, I haven't seen it since the 80's. Thank you for posting, a creepy classic.
This scene gives me goosebumps every time I watch it
If you are wondering planes back then did have Autopilots but they were rudimentary and basically only kept the plane stable and as it were left.
thank u, i actually was
when you make the mistake of flying near a cargo ship in war thunder
Honestly, I was about to say that but I saw your comment.
Idk why but that little detail where the guy on the radio got shot up then clenching his fist before taking his last breath really sticks out for me personally. Such a great movie. I would love to re a re-release with updated animations and background art
Bruh that’s some of the best zombie design I’ve seen
An out of the frying pan and into the fire kind of situation.
I was introduced to both films when I was seven, twenty-five now and I still love this. I wish B-17 was expanded on into a full length movie or at the very least a 30-45 minute film animated like this of course. Both of the Heavy Metal movies(yes I like Heavy Metal 2000) have such amazing shit going for them. The great concepts featured in the 1981 Anthology film all deserve their own dedicated films, expanding on what we got. Heavy Metal 2000, despite the cgi being utterly crap had a decent story that was just rushed in my opinion. I think we'd all benefit if Heavy Metal films had a revival, Robert Rodriguez as far as I know still has the film rights to Heavy Metal and wants to revive it, however who knows these days. Maybe if more people saw these films and the other adult animated films from before, more inspired people will come out.
I also would like more of a good thing but sometimes short and sweet is more of an impression and like the magazines intended to free up the imagination
@@HighFalutinTootin Yeah I can agree with that. I just want more. xD
@@lupusumbra8676 lol more is never enough tho...and sometimes more can be too much
@@HighFalutinTootin Damnit that is true. x'D
Check out Love, Death and Robots on Netflix. It's David Finchers attempt at bringing back Heavy Metal. There's some great adult animated segments in there. Sonnie's Edge and Beyond the Aquila Rift are my favorites.
It seems nobody can compare. Where has our imagination gone too!! Can't anyone take a ride, ride,, ride,ride, on heavy metal!!?? ANYMORE!?
This sketch is brutal. I love it!
The soundtrack rocks!
These are the scariest zombies ever. I mean, they are really strong (Breaking through a metal door in seconds) and are actually walking skulls with organs hanging xd
This short would have made a great full length movie. Love Heavy Metal.
Love this manly, gritty animation style. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore in this pussified world.
I was 10 in 81 when this came out. Saw it at the movies, it was awesome.
Absolutely brilliant animation for its day...I remember liking this scene the most when I saw it in a theatre in 81.
Something about this always grabbed me , zombies , ww2 air combat, freaking genius concept
That’s serious cheesin’
tiTTonia was totally worth it maaannn.
He got cheesed out of his mind.
It seems like there was so much more detail and care put into animation during the 80s and 90s. It saddens me that new animators choose the easy route. Instead of putting their heart into it they just want to get it finished.
Have you seen spine of Night?
Some of the best animation and storyline I’ve seen…Heavy Metal always pushed the limits of reality and blended fantasy and horror perfectly….such detail too. i was a subscriber from their first issue and still have every copy plus the movie poster with Den … yeah, im a Fan!
I remember being 11 and watching this with my dad. He would stop the tape around this part
I remember seeing this when I was like 8
I think my mom showed me this movie when I was like 12.
Yes there was a hatch in the floor of the cockpit of a B17. Almost all Hollywood versions of aircraft cockpits show them to be living room huge. They are not. They’re incredibly cramped. I sat in the cockpit of an F15E Strike Eagle and barely fit into it.
I took a tour of a B-17 (Miss Angela at the PSAM) and it was super cramped. I’m a bit on the smaller side, and it was still really tight
Just the wind whistling through the bullet holes is creepy enough...then the zombie shit happens....
Scariest scene but coolest animation scheme.
Damn, the Pacific Front was harsh.
So along time ago my mom and dad got a vhs copy of Heavy Metal, I was inthralled by the box cause so many questions so many ideas filled my head. My parents just said I'm not allowed to watch so I just held that box until we got home. Some years passed and I was around that age where I could watch rated R movies, sadly we didnt get a vhs tape but dad showed me this clip saying this was his favorite scene. Now this scene means so much to me since he's gone.
I'm sorry for your loss 😔
The animation back then. Still Mindblowing
That slow fade in from the last story with the narration 🥶
Those Japanese flak guns in the middle of the Pacific Ocean were deadly
_"Even in death, my powers continue..."_
THIS MOVIE IS FUCKING BEAUTFUL!
The best animated sequence ever!
I absolutely love this movie now or when in came out in early 80's!
I remember when this movie came out; this scene always freaked me out. Great movie and soundtrack!
Scary story with an EC horror vibe! One of my favorite animated movies and fantasy movies since I was 11 seeing this on Cinemax in late 93
The animation is great in this movie classic hand drawn look very nice gritty feel and appearance to it I love this style of animation
Drive on up and just cruise a while leave your troubles far behind...
One of the most genuine zombie scenes ever
I love this movie. First saw it when I was 13...long time ago...
The Waist Gunners and the Radio Operator killed by enemy fire - "The Danse Macabre.."" - "Dance of Death.."
One of my favorite parts of this movie!
ever kids of 80's still love B 17 of heavy metal movie, greath anime and Soundtrack !!! i had the musicassettes , old vintage stuff
PSA:
Always save the last bullet. There are fates worse than death.
Hey man, anybody can be a Monday Morning Quarterback.
I think this is my favorite segment!
This part scared the living crap out of me when I saw this as a kid.
Masterpiece of animation.. saw this at the theater with an entire dorm floor of pretty lubed up college kids.. growing up as a war baby was always fascinated by WW2.. this piece combined the horror of war, blood and violence with sci-fi fantasy zombie horror.. a first in cinema..
Saw this movie when I was a kid (Thanks, HBO!) This scene messed me up. Not recommended for 10 year olds!
Thanks for this. Knew I had seen this from telly or somewhere ages ago, and had tried to search for it couple of times in the last few years. Well, today I persevered through 15 search terms and lots of bad leads :D
How can this only be six minutes and 41 seconds?
Anyone know why the sound effects - the jump scare sound when captain opened the door and the growling of zombies as they were beating down the door were cut on the newer release? It's was my vhs 📼 Cinemax version which I'm now kickin myself in the arse for throwing it away
Bro this is a 10/10 video
This scared the hell out of me when I first saw it in 1981! I was only 8 years old
This Movie is Awesome