HEAVY TRIP (2018) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren
Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Max Ovaska,
Antti Heikkinen, Minka Kuustonen, Ville Tiihonen
To get an idea where this movie's coming from, try to imagine Spinal Tap as a "symphonic, post-apocalyptic, reindeer-grinding, Christ-abusing, extreme war pagan" Finnish metal band, practicing in the back room of a slaughterhouse. They've got no original material, they've never played for a live audience, and they don't even have a name till they come up with one: Impaled Rectum. The locals hate them till the word gets around that they've landed a gig at a music festival in Norway, at which point they become instant local heroes. It turns out the gig is a myth, but off they go, the corpse of their dead drummer strapped to the roof of a stolen van. It's crazy and hilarious and I guess you could even say heart-warming, if "heart-warming" and "metal band" isn't a contradiction in terms. Loud noise, flying hair and projectile vomiting, too.
