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  • 2018
  • Doppelganger Releasing
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2018
  • Doppelganger Releasing
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway—the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival—and decide ...

Directed By: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren

Written By: Aleksi Puranen, Jari Olavi Rantala, Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren

  • 2018
  • Doppelganger Releasing
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2018
  • Doppelganger Releasing
  • 1 h 32 m

Heavy Trip

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 18 User Ratings
5.8
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Summary Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway—the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival—and decide ...

Directed By: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren

Written By: Aleksi Puranen, Jari Olavi Rantala, Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren

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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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11% Mixed
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88
Oct 5, 2018
A Finnish ensemble comedy about a wannabe black metal band, is probably the only film you'll see this year with a crowd-surfing corpse. Don't let the last part of that sentence dissuade you from seeing Heavy Trip: it's a real crowdpleaser.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 4, 2018
In their feature debut, co-writers/directors Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren and co-writers Aleksi Puranen and Jari Olavi Rantala reach for absurdist comedy — the reindeer-blood accident, the projectile-vomit bit, the grave-robbing incident — with a touch so light that the general nuttiness comes to seem a central (and essential) component of Finnish rural life.
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5.8
61% Positive
11 Ratings
6% Mixed
1 Rating
33% Negative
6 Ratings

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Rabbittron
Sep 6, 2023
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Mamoon_Tayih
May 15, 2020
This movie is one big surprise. I know it might be silly giving a rating of ten but, and this is a big but, this movie deserves all the praise it gets. They managed to tick all the right boxes, the story, heavy metal vibes and the characters all blends so well! I am a Hard Rock and Metal fan and this movie just gave me the right dose of nostalgia and self achievement, we all wanted to be part of a band one day and just felt so thrilled for these bunch fighting to achieve their dream Watch it and you won't get disappointed.
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75
Oct 3, 2018
While the film’s attempts at slapstick can be painful — in a cringing way, not in a brutal way — Heavy Trip does succeed in creating perhaps the most charming ensemble of morbid dorks since "What We Do In The Shadows."
By Katie Rife FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 19, 2019
Heavy Trip is an absurdist, powerhouse folly, which feels spunky enough to honor the musical genre and comes filled with deadpan hilarity to please comedy addicts.
By Filipe Freitas FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 4, 2018
Playing like a Nordic “This is Spinal Tap,” the Finnish import Heavy Trip, a satire about an aspiring heavy metal band’s efforts to land its first legitimate gig, proves as affably goofy as its characters.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
67
Oct 3, 2018
It's no "Metalocalypse" (pretty much the only metal comedy to completely break the rules), and there are no new classic anthems here, but if you want to bang your head to a very familiar beat, Heavy Trip is a solid cover version.
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50
Oct 3, 2018
Its story distances heavy metal from any whiff of toxic masculinity by setting Turo and company against homophobes and rakes.
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maestro666
Sep 12, 2019
This was insane absolutely love it. This is funny original entertaining. It was genius idea to make movie about metal band especially for metalheads
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9
umaumai
Feb 22, 2022
This movie has reignited my love of film and how to spend a couple of hours with interesting storytelling. It had such great heart and I loved the performances. I loved the setting and how everyone really fit their character. I was really blown away at the places it took me emotionally as well as how silly it was. While somewhat grounded it borders on the absurd in a playful way. I laughed so hard at a scene that takes place in a zoo that now those images are were I’m going to go when I’m down. If you’re into music, have ever been in a band or just want to check out something familiar and at the same time somewhat foreign this was fun.
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Zurelho
Jul 28, 2020
O filme sobre musica mais imprevisível e inusitado que já vi Symphonic post apocalyptic reindeer-grinding-Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal
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bataguila
Feb 10, 2019
Entretenida, original, tiene un giro de tuerca muy triste, algunos buenos chistes, muy interesante ver como son esas tierras.
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Production Company Making Movies, FilmCamp, Umedia, Mutant Koala Pictures, Making Movies Oy
Release Date Oct 5, 2018
Duration 1 h 32 m
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Website http://heavy-trip-movie.com/
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Awards

Noordelijk Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Jussi Awards
• 2 Nominations

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