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Rock & Rule
Why this pick
A similarly adult-oriented animated rock fantasy, mixing a dystopian future, lurid creature design, and a soundtrack-driven rush of countercultural energy.
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MOVIE1981 1h 30m CAN
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Why this pick
A modern rotoscoped answer to its dark-fantasy side: violent, hallucinatory, episodic storytelling linked by ancient evil and richly grotesque imagery.
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Wizards
Why this pick
For the same collision of animation, post-apocalyptic science fiction, black magic, and unruly underground-art sensibility.
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Fantastic Planet
Why this pick
Its surreal alien ecology and hypnotic, highly stylized animation offer the same pleasure in strange adult-oriented science-fiction visions, in a more dreamlike register.
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Vampire Hunter D
Why this pick
A gothic future full of mutants, decadent villains, and lone-wanderer cool—well suited to Heavy Metal’s dark, pulpy fusion of fantasy and sci-fi.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of six bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Harold Ramis
Zeke (voice)
John Candy
Desk Sergeant / Dan / Den / Robot (voice)
Richard Romanus
Harry Canyon (voice)
Susan Roman
Girl / Satellite (voice)
Harvey Atkin
Alien / Henchman (voice)
Al Waxman
Rudnick (voice)
Marilyn Lightstone
Whore / Queen (voice)
George Touliatos
Pilot / Barbarian (voice)