Den agrees and infiltrates the palace along with Ard's best soldier, Norl. He offers Den a deal get the Loc-Nar from the Queen and bring it to him and he will release the girl to Den.
Den asks where the girl is located and Ard shows him that she is sleeping, encased in glass under a spell where only Ard can awaken her. Den fights off Ard's soldiers and shoots Ard, but since Ard is immortal he heals immediately. When Den is taken to see Ard, Den demands to see Katherine, but Ard orders his men to castrate Den. While she demonstrates her gratitude with sexual favors, they are interrupted by the minions of Ard, an immortal man who wants to obtain the Loc-Nar for himself. Reaching safety, she introduces herself as Katherine Wells from the British colony of Gibraltar. After tying a nearby flag around him to keep natives from seeing his "dork" hanging out, Den witnesses a strange ritual, rescuing a beautiful, young, large-breasted woman who was about to be sacrificed to Uhluhtc by another large-breasted woman. During a lightning experiment, the orb hurls the boy into the world of Neverwhere, where he transforms into a naked, bald-headed, well endowed, muscular man called Den, an acronym for his earth name, David Ellis Norman.
TAARNA THE TARAKIAN HEAVY METAL DRIVER
In a dystopian and crime ridden New York City in 2031, cynical taxicab driver Harry Canyon narrates his day in film noir style, grumbling about his fares and frequent robbery attempts he thwarts with a disintegrator installed in the back of his seat.
Original story by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum based on The Long Tomorrow by Moebius.
An astronaut seated in the car then begins descending through Earth's atmosphere, landing in a desert canyon. The bay doors open, releasing a 1960 Corvette. The title sequence story opens with a Space Shuttle orbiting the Earth. Despite the mixed reviews by film critics on its initial release, the film was a modest success at the box office and has since achieved cult status.Ī sequel titled Heavy Metal 2000 was released in 2000.īased on the comic of the same name by Dan O'Bannon and Thomas Warkentin. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. The film is an anthology of various science fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky. Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian-American adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton, produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film.