SummaryA decade after a farming accident takes the life of her heavy metal music-obsessed older brother, Hera (Thora Bjorg Helga) transforms into a sexy, surly headbanger and DIY musician, dressed in black leather and a Slayer t-shirt, clutching her dead brother’s electric guitar as she howls anthems of rage to a barn full of cows. Seemingly trapped in... Read More
Directed By:Ragnar Bragason
Written By:Ragnar Bragason
Metalhead
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79
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7.9
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Mar 19, 2015
100
The film deftly marries the essence of the music to a moving coming-of-age framework.
Apr 10, 2015
75
The clichés at its core make Metalhead something less than a full-bore, head-banging triumph. But it does perform the service of reminding us that even Judas Priest is capable of saving souls, and any film that features a cross-generational dance-off to Megadeth's "Symphony of Destruction" can't be all bad.
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Nov 16, 2020
8
Metal music is a part of my life. Metal music is another world of music. This is a good movie
Dec 21, 2018
7
Metalhead (Málmhaus) is a good movie. There are scenes and subplots that I think are totally redundant, apart from the immediate need for the inclusion of different scenes and the clarification of others that have not been fully clarified in order to enter more into what this audiovisual work tells us.
Mar 19, 2015
70
It taps into something universal, and very precious, about loss, art and adolescent rebellion.
Mar 19, 2015
70
Metalhead is uninterested in caricature or easy laughs, and its embodiment of guitar-hero obsession is one much more closely resembling someone you knew in high school, albeit someone who's had an exceptionally hard time dealing with childhood trauma.
Production Company:
- Hummelfilm
- Mystery Productions
Release Date:Mar 20, 2015
Duration:1 h 37 m
Tagline:It's the things we run from that hurt us the most.
Awards
Edda Awards, Iceland
• 8 Wins & 16 Nominations
Göteborg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
