Heavy Trip
Holy shit! Or should I say, sacred vomit! Directors Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio have concocted the Scandinavian This Is Spinal Tap. Black metal deserves its own spot-on satire, too, and Heavy Trip delivers nearly as many LOL lines and scenes as a Mayhem song has blast beats. We follow the grossly engrossing story of Impaled Rektum, a Finnish black-metal foursome who finally get ambition after practicing other bands’ songs for 12 years. Their path to glory is mind-bogglingly serpentine and dryly hilarious. Heavy Trip’s plot twists and set pieces thread the needle between plausibility and absurdity with unerring wit. An instant classic is born screaming.
by Dave Segal