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HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT is considered one of the greatest rock & roll movies of all time, although it's actually a hilarious documentary tribute to rock & roll's GREATEST FANS. Filmed in 1986 at a Maryland concert arena parking lot before a heavy metal show, HMPL is an unvarnished anthropological study of American metalheads in their mid-'80s glory.
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Heavy Metal Parking Lot è un filmato CULT degli anni 80, un cortometraggio che ha girato come bootleg tape tra musicisti, fans ed addetti ai lavori. Gli allora giovani film-makers si avventurarono in un parcheggio, di fronte al luogo del concerto dei JUDAS PRIEST durante il loro tour americano dell' 86, ed hanno ripreso ed intervistato la fauna locale per un falso programma di MTV. Il risultato è demenziale ma molto divertente, una sorta di Spinal Tap underground ed involontario.
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I don't know how much charm this'll hold for UK viewers, but for headbangers who were in high school in the 80s in America, this is a semi-definitive anthropological look at the kids who made up the metal scene then - a near perfect cross section of a high school subculture that will soon be forgotten in the wave of new generations. What makes this brief look at a slice of time from a Judas Priest concert so compelling is what comes after the 15 minute film itself, as we compare it to A) Neil Diamond Parking Lot, B) Harry Potter Parking Lot, C) a revisitation of some of the original characters in the Heavy Metal Parking Lot - interesting to see where they are today!, and finally the biography on the destruction of the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland, where many many famous concerts were held, now being destroyed to make way for a town center with shops and restaurants. You actually get to see them blow up the old concert centre as if this film weren't already heavy metal enough. Try not to get a little sentimental if you lived through the era which as of now was but a mere 25 years ago. When all the dreams of that time are still only a thought away, it's interesting to make note of the physical changes both in people and geography. The accomplishment of the film-makers here is that they didn't stop with only their amateurly shot parking lot video of 1986, but actually turned it into a fairly substantial documentary, with mainstream TV covering the story and even including a short interview with Rob Halford himself. Pretty good.
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1 Jun 2001
By "idvego"
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This is by far the greatest 15 minutes ever compiled onto one tape. When I listen to Judas Priest, I imagine myself cutting class, driving in an El Camino with my friend "Trip," complaining about our parents and teachers. This video turns fantasy into reality. If you ever were a burnout Priest fan, this is for you. If you ever wanted to be a burnout Priest fan, this is for you. If you just like lauging at burnout Priest fans, this is for you. If you simply like to laugh, this is for you. I cannot imagine a single open-minded person not enjoying this beautiful film.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Funny as hell!
8 Jan 2001
By "blag"
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My sister just got me this for Christmas, no doubt because I was an 80's headbanger. This short tape is simply some videotape taken in a parking lot before a Judas Priest concert in 1986 in Maryland. This is so funny because it shows what metal fans were like back then. These fans are particularly redneck, drunk, stoned and scuzzy. Anyone who is or used to like heavy metal in the 80's should get this. I'd like to know what happened to some of these people - my guess is most of them are dead!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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You Will Watch It Over and Over and Over and Over...
17 Aug 2005
By C. Koch
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I kept reading references to "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" in various places but never could figure out what it was exactly. It got to the point that I was curious enough to just buy the tape without knowing what I was going to get.
For the curious: Heavy Metal Parking Lot was created when some guys lugged Cable Access cameras to a tail-gating party before a Judas Priest concert in Maryland circa 1986. All the cameramen needed to ask the fans was "Who do you like?" and their reaction of screams, hollers, and beer pounding is a spectacle for the ages. The program is about 20 minutes long and it always comes out when I have guests over for a little drinking. (My favorite is the guy who simply says, "PRIEST! Rock n Roll Forever!")
If you think you will like this video. You are wrong. You will love it.
Buy this video if you are interested in any of the following: Hair Metal, Rock n Roll, the 80s, sociology, juvenile delinquincy, beer, weed, what makes Americans loved around the world.
*I just read that a DVD edition is coming out!!!
For the curious: Heavy Metal Parking Lot was created when some guys lugged Cable Access cameras to a tail-gating party before a Judas Priest concert in Maryland circa 1986. All the cameramen needed to ask the fans was "Who do you like?" and their reaction of screams, hollers, and beer pounding is a spectacle for the ages. The program is about 20 minutes long and it always comes out when I have guests over for a little drinking. (My favorite is the guy who simply says, "PRIEST! Rock n Roll Forever!")
If you think you will like this video. You are wrong. You will love it.
Buy this video if you are interested in any of the following: Hair Metal, Rock n Roll, the 80s, sociology, juvenile delinquincy, beer, weed, what makes Americans loved around the world.
*I just read that a DVD edition is coming out!!!
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