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Heavy Trip and Heavier Trip double feature

Jukka Vidgren, Juuso Laatio · 2018 & 2024
200min · DCP
  • Saturday, Nov 30, 2024, 7:00pm

In the offbeat comedy from Finland, HEAVY TRIP, 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. But when the guys get a surprise visitor from Norway—the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival—they decide it’s now or never, so they steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer in order to make their dreams a reality.

Then, in HEAVIER TRIP, the world’s most ferocious death metal band, Impaled Rektum, is back and ready to unleash hell! Shackled by fate and locked up in a Norwegian prison, the band discovers their lead guitarist’s family reindeer slaughterhouse faces a financial storm. Turo, Lotvonen, Xytrax, and Oula hatch a daring escape plan to help. Desperate for the money, and the chance to perform at the ultimate battleground for metal warriors, Impaled Rektum takes a journey through northern Europe to the legendary Wacken music festival. But hot on their trail is a vengeful prison guard, thirsting for revenge, and a sketchy record label executive, weaving lies that could shatter their dreams and worse, compromise the integrity of the band. Amidst the chaos, the band must forge a bond stronger than the darkest riffs – forging alliances with the most unexpected compatriots, including an epic cameo from the Japanese Kawaii-metal band, BABYMETAL. Only the raw power of metal can determine their fate!

In English and Finnish with English subtitles.

“[Heavy Trip] achieves the status of bonafide crowd-pleaser, for a crowd that isn’t normally acknowledged with such detail and warmth.” Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com

“Audiences returning for another tour with Impaled Rektum won’t be disappointed… Heavier Trip is another gift to metalheads that has me hungry for a third.” Matthew Donato, Collider