Heavy metal parking lot

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Movie
German title Heavy metal parking lot
Original title Heavy metal parking lot
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 17 minutes
Rod
Director Jeff Krulik, John Heyn

Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a documentary film produced by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn in 1986.

action

The film shows teenage heavy metal fans hanging out in the parking lot, partying and "warming up" before a Judas Priest concert (with support act Dokken ) at the Capital Center in Landover , Maryland on Saturday, May 31, 1986. A few weeks before that, Judas Priest had just released their album Turbo . The concert took place as part of the Fuel for Life Tour , which took the metal band around the globe. At the beginning of the film you can see the film team driving into the parking lot in front of the event hall, Jeffrey "Jeff" Krulik sitting behind the wheel, while his partner John Heyn is in the back seat with the camera and a parking attendant through the left car window films. Later, a young blonde woman tells that she and her friend are attending a heavy metal concert for the first time over a couple of Jack Daniel’s cups with Coca-Cola . Again and again you can see roaring hordes of Judas Priest fans, some with banners. In addition to band t-shirts from Judas Priest and Dokken, visitors also wear t-shirts from Metallica , Iron Maiden , Kiss , Ozzy Osbourne , Accept , Slayer , the Confederate flag and the 1985 Live Aid benefit festival The term tailgate party , which translates as tailgate party when young adults stand in the open air around an open trunk of a car or on the back of a pick-up truck , drinking alcohol and having a barbecue . When asked what she would do if she met Rob Halford , the singer of Judas Priest, in person, a brunette woman with a black top replied: “ I would jump over him and fuck him ” (in the original English language: “ I'd jump his bones! "). Back in 1986, Rob Halford was not known to be gay. It was not until twelve years later, in April 1998, that Halford came out . A young person with long hair, who was nicknamed Zebraman because of his black and white striped clothes , expresses his displeasure with the punk movement in a rude choice of words and emphasizes that his passion is only for heavy metal culture, and the young person also mocks the for Pop singer Madonna became famous at the time the video was made (" Madonna can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. She's a dick "). Another group of friends reported that they received backstage passes to meet the metal band Judas Priest personally behind the scenes. Since a friend of the gang named Timmy had died in a car accident a month earlier, the Judas Priest manager gave the group of friends several backstage passes. Some visitors hold their ticket up to the camera. Many of the young people say they prefer to listen to the German hard rock band Scorpions . Elsewhere, five young guys singing the song Bar Room Buddies , originally a duet of country singer Merle Haggard and actor Clint Eastwood in the film comedy Bronco Billy in 1980. In between, interviewed the camera crew a black-skinned hall employees of the Capital Center, which is a white polo shirt and wears a baseball cap, the Jamaican assuring that he has never seen such a crazy audience. Another concert goer with a black hat spontaneously plays the air guitar using the upper body of a woman standing next to it and sings the chorus of the song I Get Around by the Beach Boys from 1964. At the end, Judas Priest can be seen on the stage, but at a different performance by the Metal- Band performing the song Heading Out to the Highway .

reputation

Heavy Metal Parking Lot was in the early 1990s to an underground cult film mainly as a bootleg - VHS spread. According to reports, the film was shown several times on the Nirvana tour bus in 1993/1994 during the tour for the album In Utero , which made Dave Grohl , the former drummer of Nirvana, a fan of the rock music short film with a high nostalgia value. In 1994 the director Sofia Coppola called the author John Heyn and informed him that she had borrowed a VHS tape from Heavy Metal Parking Lot at a video store called Mondo Video A-Go-Go in Hollywood , Los Angeles , and some Would like to use scenes from it for a TV pilot film that she produced for the TV station Comedy Central . When filmmaker John Heyn called the relevant video store in Hollywood, it turned out that his short film is a popular distribution title among musicians and actors there. This confirmed that in Los Angeles on the west coast a large fan base had formed for the film, far beyond Washington, DC on the east coast. American director Cameron Crowe , who made the feature film Singles - Lonely Together and 2000 Almost Famous - Almost Famous , two films dealing with pop music as a youth culture , rated the short film Heavy Metal Parking Lot as " one of the greatest rock films ever " ( in English: " One of the greatest rock movies ever "). The American film critic Roger Ebert reviewed the music documentary with the words: “ A time capsule. Devotees stoned at the pilgrimage site of their own indolence. "(In English:" A time capsule ... Stoned worshipers at the shrine of their own bewilderment "). Since the turn of the millennium, the internet and smartphones with video function established themselves in society as part of the global digitization of all areas of life, now comparable amateur films made by fans at rock and pop concerts have been made in large numbers on online platforms such as YouTube or in social networks like Facebook uploaded and published. That is why such video clips, provided the films do not go viral on the Internet, rarely exude the charm of something special like Heavy Metal Parking Lot once did when it was made in the mid-1980s. As a milieu study , Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a valuable audio-visual contemporary document.

DVD release

The film is now also available on DVD as a 20th Anniversairy Edition. In addition to the almost 17-minute main film, the DVD contains some sequels such as Neil Diamond Parking Lot from 1996/97, Monster Truck Parking Lot from 1989 and Harry Potter Parking Lot from 1999 and other bonus material. For the sequels, the two filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn sought out the same large parking lot in front of the event hall, which had since been renamed the US Air Arena when Neil Diamond gave a concert there in 1996. However, the film Monster Truck Parking Lot remained unfinished. The event hall in question was closed in 1999, and in 2002 the hall was demolished and demolished on December 15, 2002 to make room for a new shopping center. Film recordings of the demolition and demolition are also included in the bonus material on the DVD. Many people in the metropolitan area around the metropolitan area of Landover in the state of Maryland identified themselves emotionally with the Capital Center multifunctional hall because it hosted numerous music and sports events, with which the citizens associated personal memories of their youth. Elvis Presley appeared in it in 1976 . On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot in 2001, the duo Jeff Krulik and John Heyn embarked on a worldwide tour to screen the short film again in music clubs, museums and at film festivals. For the almost eight-minute short film Harry Potter Parking Lot , filmmaker Jeff Krulik accompanied a book signing by British author Joanne K. Rowling in October 1999 in the Politics and Prose bookstore in the American capital Washington, DC in order to educate children and adults about theirs Survey enthusiasm for the Harry Potter books . In addition, the DVD bonus material contains some interviews with protagonists of the film Heavy Metal Parking Lot , who many years later describe their further life since 1986.

credentials

The bands Less Than Jake and American Hi-Fi parodied heavy metal Parking Lot in their music videos for the songs All My Best Friends Are Metalheads and Flavor Of The Weak . The 2005 video for Just Want You To Know by the Backstreet Boys also makes a satirical reference to the film. The album Heavy Metal Rules by the glam metal band Steel Panther , released in 2019, is named as a tribute to a shouted saying of the youngster in Heavy Metal Parking Lot , who was nicknamed Zebraman because of his black and white striped clothing . In the short film from 1986, the young man accidentally beats the microphone of the camera team against his teeth.

TV series

From 2004, the US television station Trio broadcast the series Parking Lot , which was based on the 1986 documentary. The series was created and co-produced by Heavy Metal Parking Lot directors Jeff Krulik and John Heyn (in collaboration with Radical Media). Eight episodes ran up to its cancellation in 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heavy Metal Parking Lot , documentary by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn , DVD, 17 minutes, 2006, Brainbox Productions + Factory 515 (Independent DVD Manufacturing), audio commentary in English with directors Jeff Krulik and John Heyn.
  2. ↑ Heavy Metal Parking Lot , documentary by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn , DVD, 17 minutes, 2006, Brainbox Productions + Factory 515 (Independent DVD Manufacturing), Sofia-Coppola-fact contained in digitized documents in the Timeline folder under Notes / Credits in the bonus material.
  3. ↑ Heavy Metal Parking Lot , documentary by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn , DVD, 17 minutes + over two hours of bonus material, 2006, Brainbox Productions + Factory 515 (Independent DVD Manufacturing), quote from director Cameron Crowe on the back of the DVD case.
  4. ↑ Heavy Metal Parking Lot , documentary by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn , DVD, 17 minutes + over two hours of bonus material, 2006, Brainbox Productions + Factory 515 (Independent DVD Manufacturing), quote from critic Roger Ebert on the back of the DVD case.