Movie connections for
Heavy Metal (1981) More at IMDbPro »

Followed by

Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)

Remade as

Heavy Metal (2012)

References

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
"Star Trek" (1966)
 -  The starship Enterprise is seen floating through space.
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Barbarella (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
Flesh Gordon (1974)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Alien (1979)

Referenced in

Fire and Ice (1983)
Dreamscape (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
Dune (1984)
Brazil (1985)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Legend (1985)
Highlander (1986)
Aliens (1986)
Akira (1988)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Total Recall (1990)
Alien³ (1992)
Clerks. (1994)
 -  When the low I.Q. video customer says, "OOOOH! NAVY SEALS!" you see the, "Heavy Metal" video on the bottom of the screen to HIS immediate right.
Stargate (1994)
La cité des enfants perdus (1995)
The Fifth Element (1997)
 -  Dallas' apartment is a near copy of Harry Canyon's
Starship Troopers (1997)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
Ghostbusters' SFX Team Featurette (1999) (V)
 -  Terry Windell mentiones her work on Heavy Metal
The Cell (2000)
Suchwiin bulmyeong (2001)
 -  Heavy Metal comic book
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Resident Evil (2002)
Exhumed (2003) (V)
 -  Series of stories tied together by an evil item everyone wants.
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
 -  in JBs room there is a poster to this movie
21 (2008)
 -  Cam said "This has been the coolest thing since Heavy Metal"
Step Brothers (2008)
 -  poster seen
John's Arm: Armageddon (2008)
 -  The Mayor quotes the line "Unless you count the preschoolers' prostitute ring."

Featured in

Imagining 'Heavy Metal' (1999) (V)

Spoofed in

"South Park: Major Boobage (#12.3)" (2008)
 -  The world Kenny and Gerald Broslovski see when they are high is a parody of the film including the same music and similar characters

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