Garrett Green the setting alone is unsettling. Like Train To Busan. The claustrophobia only heightens the terror. The only thing worse would be on a submarine.
Or a cod zombies map. They could make the Intro cinematic similar to this. 4 Survivors jump out on the Island. Same song and some horror elements too. If only codww2 was kinda like this It would fit In perfectly.
Quite possibly the best "zombie" scene in a movie. It's so short and to the point it's like a punch in the gut. And the way it smoothly transitions from the "mundane" horrors of war to the supernatural is masterful.
Unquestionably the most frightening segment in the entire film; the script for this scene was written by the same screenwriter who penned the script for Ridley Scott's "Alien" (1979).
Well technically. It was originally written in the 40s. I can't give the full story but basically a writer composed the story and then it went from hand to the other
The creepiest part of this scene to me has always been the whistling in the bomb bay. & my truck makes the same noise in the cab on the freeway always creeps me out a bit
Yeah, that wind whistling through bomber Bay was great creepy touch. By the way, why hell would he open hatch to Bomber observation port when knew guy inside already Dead?
When I saw him use the autopilot I had to ask myself if they even had those then. Turns out they did. And ... the animators here actually had it placed in the right position for the B17. Kudos.
Somehow I always thought that B17 had Sperry Autopilot, just like DC3, but rewatching this clip and seeing your comment made me google the whole thing. Looks like B17 actually had a very advanced autopilot system with a lot of tuning options for control surfaces.
There been several Ghost in Shell anime movies, a live action film and Ghost in Shell TV series. The line between humans and Cybernetic life throughly explored. When will our Society reach that level as Cybernetic implants are becoming more common.
This segment was written bu Dan O'Bannon which also wrote Alien. In his original script a Alien somehow gets aboard on a B17 bomber and terrorizes the crew.He abandoned that story and rewrote it so that a Alien enters a cargo spaceship called the Nostromo.But his story was then reused in Heavy Metal of 1981.
I'd heard it was originally a treatment for Gremlins. With the crew battling them as they try and get the bomber back to base. *Alien Legacy, in an interview Bannon talks about it*
Whenever this movie comes up in conversation I always mention this scene first. I first saw this movie when I was 12 and always got a kick out of this scene and the hand over fist scene. I am 26 now and still appreciate this film.
In late 1942 B-17 made night bombing runs on Rabual. The most heavily fortified Island with several airfields and AA in the Pacific. These missions were suicidal at day let alone at night. Rabual was the one of the reasons for the island hopping strategy. Rabual was left to wither off the vine.
You either don't know what the phrase "let alone" means or you don't know much about aerial warfare. Night is the safest time for bombing runs. Only downside is that with WW2 technology, the bomber has as much trouble seeing his target as the AAA gunners do.
Just watching that battle when the plane was hit on the starboard side that resulted in the deaths of the waist gunners I'll bet that was how the ball turret Gunner was killed too as it looks like the ball turret was pointing in the direction of the side of the plane that was hit.
Dude! I feel the same way! Even though this sequence freaks me out---I can watch the beginning a 1000 times over! :) "Come on skipper! They're enemy planes here! Let's get the hell outa here!" GUN FIRE
@doinblow Not necessarily. There are a couple of planes in the mix that aren't even military. I spotted a ca. 1935 Lockheed Electra (the type of plane Amelia Earhart disappeared while flying -- an in-joke by the screenwriters?), and some sort of Italian-looking biplane. Also the ass end of a U.S. Navy jet that would have been made years after WWII. It is being suggested that the island is the place where aircrew of all times and nations go when they die in combat.
A true classic. I first watched it first run in the theater. I've since purchased it as it was rereleased, first on VCR, then DVD and finally, Blue-Ray. My wife thinks I'm crazy :-O Yes, I'm a Boomer.
@@81carlos Yeah, to pull off that effect they actually recorded a model of a B-17 plane with the camera panning around it. Then they simply animated over the recorded footage.
Saw this movie in the theatre originally. Years later, when working at a condo on an inspection, saw one of the residents there who looked like the skipper in this segment, right down to the small mustache. Not to mention, he looked the right age as well. I have to admit, when I was doing the testing in his unit, I was nervously looking all around half expecting one of those zombies to come out to attack me.
When I saw this as a kid in the theater, it really messed me up inside because back then WW2 vets were still around, and telling stories like the copilot seeing dead bodies in the plane.
My great uncle was the only survivor of a flight that crashed. He got sent home to the farm. A short time later, he got drafted into the Navy. Maybe he enlisted, but he said drafted. Ended up fighting rest of war in a different branch of the service in a different theater.
I know with B-17 crews there was the pilot,Co-Pilot,navigator,waist gunners,tail Gunner,ball turret Gunner and the bombardier and that there was the radio man as well so of all the guys we saw the Lock-Nar resurrect on that plane we didn't see a dead navigator so what happened to him.
My father worked on B 17s in WW2 he said the plane was pretty accurate but not autopilot and if they were in flack there would be no enemy fights up in it too But the animation was pretty spot on .
I remember when i was a kid, couldnt have been more than 10, my dad was watching this and this is the only scene he let me see. Hahahahaha excellent art though, the motions are really good. Always liked how it looked when he fires his side arm at the door. Or when Harry whips around in his taxi and hits the garbage can, just really good animation.
I first saw Heavy Metal back in the summer of '81 and been a fan ever since. I would so love if they made a reboot using today's CGI technology and kept the same soundtrack and none of the trash that passes for music these days.......
Not only that, but the creators of the movie have stated it took place in an alternate reality.. So in that reality, any number of things could be different.
@panzersRULE The United States Army Air Forces incurred 12% of the Army's 936,000 battle casualties in World War II. 88,119 airmen died in service. 52,173 were battle casualty deaths: 45,520 killed in action, 1,140 died of wounds, 3,603 were missing in action and declared dead, and 1,910 were nonhostile battle deaths. Of the United States military and naval services, only the Army Ground Forces suffered more battle deaths.
That part where the dead Ball turret Gunner killed the Co-Pilot I was surprised there was so much room in that thing for the Zombie Gunner to kill the guy I mean I've seen pictures of the ball turrets of B-17's and they are not that big remember what Sean Astin said in Memphis Belle said there was barely room in there for a parachute and that he could barely breathe in there and that it hurts using the safety line he had to wrap around his chest even though in the end he was lucky he put it on as it saved his life later on.
I think I did see a personalized license plate tag that said LOCNAR, however was at a distance though I saw it being a Illinois plate. This was a while back.
War is Hell. People often get injured and even killed there. But with the Loc-Nar involved and bringing everybody who were killed back to life as evil vicious mindless killer man-eating zombies of their former selves, it becomes more so than it already is. Getting attack by zombies that used to be your allies before they were killed and turned into zombies. That would be a nightmare, but it would also makes a pretty awesome horror movie, either animated or live-action.
Seen Wizards, Watership Down, Fritz the Cat, American Pop, The Wall, Fantastic Planet, Lightyears aka Gandahar, Felidae, Ninja Scroll, Akira, Princess Mononoke etc.?
If only Taarna would have come in to the rescue and give these bone heads and attitude adjustment and from there take skip with her to her world to kick more ass. Plus Taarna and skip would have made a good couple and would have been nice if her and skip appeared on the end to defeat the loc nar and while the girl find off Taarna and Skip drive off in the corvette
Remember the movie 'Memphis Belle' where Eric Stoltz's character Danny was the radio operator on the Belle he also operated the gun turret on top of the Belle behind the cockpit so I think that was the same with all the radio operators on all B-17s.
You think maybe that where some missing planes lost in Bermuda Triangle ended up? There were aircraft from WW 1 and even before, but didn't see any beyond 1940s.
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It also explores old WW2 urban legend. Some pilots during the war claimed to see 'green lights' on their tail. They called them 'Foo Fighters'.
Foo fighters still exists to this day...
Foo Fighter's are German!
Ah yes the olden UFO's. They still appear near airbases and navy fleets.
They also seen gremlins.
Probably a greenflash, the sun shortly before disappearing behand the horizon.
This scene would make a great stand-alone horror film.
Garrett Green the setting alone is unsettling. Like Train To Busan. The claustrophobia only heightens the terror. The only thing worse would be on a submarine.
They did. Overlord.
Or a cod zombies map. They could make the Intro cinematic similar to this. 4 Survivors jump out on the Island. Same song and some horror elements too. If only codww2 was kinda like this It would fit In perfectly.
@@trager8933 Supposedly the intro animation to Nacht Der Untoten was inspired by this video.
@@91_C4_FL wow. Thats awesome.
When you think about it, this is the most 'normal' scene in the entire movie.
Lack of context-wise, yes
@@nickirmen6671
It's suppose to be an anthology like Creepshow
@@Johnlindsey289 You don't think I've watched the entire movie by now?
@@nickirmen6671
And you seen Creepshow?
Definently watched this movie, cos of the scene where they hover up the powder, but dont remember this.
Quite possibly the best "zombie" scene in a movie. It's so short and to the point it's like a punch in the gut. And the way it smoothly transitions from the "mundane" horrors of war to the supernatural is masterful.
This is how the imperial zombies in shi-no numa happened :D
Unquestionably the most frightening segment in the entire film; the script for this scene was written by the same screenwriter who penned the script for Ridley Scott's "Alien" (1979).
cinema world is rather small
Well technically. It was originally written in the 40s. I can't give the full story but basically a writer composed the story and then it went from hand to the other
WOW!
15 year old comment that I absolutely agree with
I will watch the entire movie and skip this one segment because it stills scares the shit out of me
Dan obannon?
I wish they had made the whole movie about this part.
we can still make our fanfics about what happens to the B17 pilot
The creepiest part of this scene to me has always been the whistling in the bomb bay. & my truck makes the same noise in the cab on the freeway always creeps me out a bit
I'm the OP and yeah I agree the wind whistling around the fuselage gives that scene some very creepy atmosphere.
@@ballpointpress Wind noise makes the whole scene!
I guess you’re taking a ride in some…HEAVY METAL
make a video on it!! and send the link I wanna hear
Yeah, that wind whistling through bomber Bay was great creepy touch. By the way, why hell would he open hatch to Bomber observation port when knew guy inside already Dead?
When I saw him use the autopilot I had to ask myself if they even had those then. Turns out they did. And ... the animators here actually had it placed in the right position for the B17. Kudos.
Somehow I always thought that B17 had Sperry Autopilot, just like DC3, but rewatching this clip and seeing your comment made me google the whole thing. Looks like B17 actually had a very advanced autopilot system with a lot of tuning options for control surfaces.
some of the animators actually were in the war and knew their way around the planes..they even recorded actual B-17 engines for this segment
Got to fly in a B-24 once. It was epic, but I still want to fly in a B-17 someday.
Exceptional well done, it's good had ex-B17 bomber crew among animators.
For me there are three animated movies that have made impact on me as a moviegoer: Akira, Heavy Metal, and Ghost in the Shell.
Same here.
Hell yeah I love those three movies!!!
There been several Ghost in Shell anime movies, a live action film and Ghost in Shell TV series. The line between humans and Cybernetic life throughly explored. When will our Society reach that level as Cybernetic implants are becoming more common.
Dude, I think the zombie island is being warped in time and space. Did anyone noticed the wreck of a Saber jet fighter?
Think there was a bi-plane there to
I think it’s definitely meant to be some sort of alternate universe.
This segment was written bu Dan O'Bannon which also wrote Alien. In his original script a Alien somehow gets aboard on a B17 bomber and terrorizes the crew.He abandoned that story and rewrote it so that a Alien enters a cargo spaceship called the Nostromo.But his story was then reused in Heavy Metal of 1981.
although the zombies replaced the alien. to this day. that is a crime this didn't got a sequel unlike Alien
he also wrote Long Tomorrow, the comic drawn by Moebius and the story is really loosely adopted for Heavy Metal movie as well, as Harry Canyon
I'd heard it was originally a treatment for Gremlins. With the crew battling them as they try and get the bomber back to base.
*Alien Legacy, in an interview Bannon talks about it*
What's the name of the song?
the choice of music and graphics still hold up for the intro - wow what great memories!
Loneliness is the wind whistling through a chewed up B-17.
I mean you're not wrong, that's for sure
That Whistle on the machine gun room is Giving me the creeps
Whenever this movie comes up in conversation I always mention this scene first. I first saw this movie when I was 12 and always got a kick out of this scene and the hand over fist scene. I am 26 now and still appreciate this film.
My grandfather received 3 bronze stars for being a belly and midsection gunner... he flew on 29 mission. 25 mandatory 4 volunteer.
Badass!
Dan O'Bannon passed away Dec 17th, 2009
The only movie I legitimately claim to love more than this is A Space Odyssey. Could see Heavy Metal a dozen times without a hitch.
This thing it's freaking me out... Can't stop watching it
Watching this reminds me of VHS quality. Watched it on Amazon the other day and MIND BLOWN in HD.
speaking of vhs have u ever seen those films called vhs?
In late 1942 B-17 made night bombing runs on Rabual. The most heavily fortified Island with several airfields and AA in the Pacific. These missions were suicidal at day let alone at night. Rabual was the one of the reasons for the island hopping strategy. Rabual was left to wither off the vine.
You either don't know what the phrase "let alone" means or you don't know much about aerial warfare. Night is the safest time for bombing runs. Only downside is that with WW2 technology, the bomber has as much trouble seeing his target as the AAA gunners do.
Just watching that battle when the plane was hit on the starboard side that resulted in the deaths of the waist gunners I'll bet that was how the ball turret Gunner was killed too as it looks like the ball turret was pointing in the direction of the side of the plane that was hit.
perfect late nite entertainment for a 15 years old..
loved it.
love it still.
This story has an EC comics feel
The best connection of video to music I have ever in movie
Even in death my Powers continue..
that was badass
Go to love Heavy Metal
Modern day bombers don't have shit on a B-17 for sheer sex appeal....
of course I had to go investigate the back and ended up getting pulled into a pod and eaten
Dude! I feel the same way! Even though this sequence freaks me out---I can watch the beginning a 1000 times over! :)
"Come on skipper! They're enemy planes here! Let's get the hell outa here!" GUN FIRE
I think the line is "Come on skipper, drop the fuckers and let's get the hell outta here"
@doinblow Not necessarily. There are a couple of planes in the mix that aren't even military. I spotted a ca. 1935 Lockheed Electra (the type of plane Amelia Earhart disappeared while flying -- an in-joke by the screenwriters?), and some sort of Italian-looking biplane. Also the ass end of a U.S. Navy jet that would have been made years after WWII. It is being suggested that the island is the place where aircrew of all times and nations go when they die in combat.
The green orb is the 'Gremlin' of WW2 bombers
Such a cool effect with the ball turret.
There should be a sequel "Island of dead pilots!"
if only but nobody on this planet has the balls to do it. well , "Island of dead pilots!" can be the title of a fan-fic
A true classic. I first watched it first run in the theater. I've since purchased it as it was rereleased, first on VCR, then DVD and finally, Blue-Ray. My wife thinks I'm crazy :-O Yes, I'm a Boomer.
At last, the entire scene as it was intended. Any chance of a re-post with better sound and graphics? This one is 16 years old.
there is but it's only about the most normal part of this , the “Heavy metal b 17 scene”
song title is "takin a ride" by don felder
This would be great at a Halloween party :)
i remeber when first time i saw this movie was incredible to see a 180 degrees change on animation for the 80s
Looks like modern CGI animation!
@@81carlos Yeah, to pull off that effect they actually recorded a model of a B-17 plane with the camera panning around it. Then they simply animated over the recorded footage.
Loc-Nar
The song makes the scene creepy.
Oh and plus the plane saids "Pacific Pearl"...
@derpenstein Look out! They'll eat your face. Just look at what they did to the Aircraft Commander on the spooky island in the PTO.
I love this animation.
to hell with japanimation.
Matel electronics presents. Bee 17. Bomber.
Nice reference
Saw this movie in the theatre originally. Years later, when working at a condo on an inspection, saw one of the residents there who looked like the skipper in this segment, right down to the small mustache. Not to mention, he looked the right age as well. I have to admit, when I was doing the testing in his unit, I was nervously looking all around half expecting one of those zombies to come out to attack me.
My favorite!
When I saw this as a kid in the theater, it really messed me up inside because back then WW2 vets were still around, and telling stories like the copilot seeing dead bodies in the plane.
My great uncle was the only survivor of a flight that crashed. He got sent home to the farm. A short time later, he got drafted into the Navy. Maybe he enlisted, but he said drafted. Ended up fighting rest of war in a different branch of the service in a different theater.
5:07
stupid pilot, you are supposed to aim for the head!
real military guys are trained to aim at the torso
The Flying Fortress and Super-Fortress have got to be the coolest planes ever built. No other plane since then has become so enduring and infamous.
What about the Liberators?
Lancasters? Liberators?
@@RedditzGG b-24 liberator other 4 engine US heavy bomber during world war 2. Looks up the documentaries.
@@oddjob1795 Yes, I know what's the B-24 Liberator
@@RedditzGG sorry my bad.
My uncle Freddie: Tail gunner in a -G model, had to ditch over channel, broke his back from bad parachute.
Great animation for the jump/parachute segment
I know with B-17 crews there was the pilot,Co-Pilot,navigator,waist gunners,tail Gunner,ball turret Gunner and the bombardier and that there was the radio man as well so of all the guys we saw the Lock-Nar resurrect on that plane we didn't see a dead navigator so what happened to him.
the zombie part is so cool
its 2022 and this just got recommended to me
video quality sure has come a long way since 2006
My father worked on B 17s in WW2 he said the plane was pretty accurate but not autopilot and if they were in flack there would be no enemy fights up in it too But the animation was pretty spot on .
Heh, yeah, I commented in an earlier comment about the waist gunners and tail gunner wasting ammo lol
Don't go into the dark jungle...
This gives me goosebumps every time I see this.
I remember when i was a kid, couldnt have been more than 10, my dad was watching this and this is the only scene he let me see. Hahahahaha excellent art though, the motions are really good. Always liked how it looked when he fires his side arm at the door. Or when Harry whips around in his taxi and hits the garbage can, just really good animation.
That one missing its jaw bone is the creepiest.
I first saw Heavy Metal back in the summer of '81 and been a fan ever since. I would so love if they made a reboot using today's CGI technology and kept the same soundtrack and none of the trash that passes for music these days.......
younger kids know this from south park
A remake would suck. They would just screw it up. Better to appreciate it the way it is.
B-17 is the perfect title for this video. Brave men who were onboard those things.
Not only that, but the creators of the movie have stated it took place in an alternate reality.. So in that reality, any number of things could be different.
@panzersRULE The United States Army Air Forces incurred 12% of the Army's 936,000 battle casualties in World War II. 88,119 airmen died in service. 52,173 were battle casualty deaths: 45,520 killed in action, 1,140 died of wounds, 3,603 were missing in action and declared dead, and 1,910 were nonhostile battle deaths. Of the United States military and naval services, only the Army Ground Forces suffered more battle deaths.
This SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME AS A KID!
RosoMC, that's interesting . Thanks !
This was kinda scary.
Lol imagine being pulled into a ball turret that's already occupied. Being torn to pieces in a claustrophobic space is nightmare and anxiety fuel
this is probably where treyarch got the inspiration for nazi zombies
And the gameplay was Inspierd by a Flash game called "The Last Stand". You could search It up.
The evil green ball called Locknar.
best fuyckig movie since 1981
It's 2020, anyone still here? Hello?
Yes
@@soundwave429 Soundwave was my favorite Decepticon
yes
That part where the dead Ball turret Gunner killed the Co-Pilot I was surprised there was so much room in that thing for the Zombie Gunner to kill the guy I mean I've seen pictures of the ball turrets of B-17's and they are not that big remember what Sean Astin said in Memphis Belle said there was barely room in there for a parachute and that he could barely breathe in there and that it hurts using the safety line he had to wrap around his chest even though in the end he was lucky he put it on as it saved his life later on.
This video creep me the fuck out every time i watch it.
@panzersRULE It's an early model. No chin turret!
I'd love to see Love Death & Robots do a zombie episode based off this.
Ooohh yes. that would be fantastic. And make the zombie island scene more action packed.
@Izayoiaki24 I thought that the best part was Harry Canyon's girl? (smirk) I like a fuzzy girl! (smile)
I couldn't see it all got spooked after awhile
I think I did see a personalized license plate tag that said LOCNAR, however was at a distance though I saw it being a Illinois plate. This was a while back.
this part scared the crap out of me when I was younger
War is Hell. People often get injured and even killed there. But with the Loc-Nar involved and bringing everybody who were killed back to life as evil vicious mindless killer man-eating zombies of their former selves, it becomes more so than it already is. Getting attack by zombies that used to be your allies before they were killed and turned into zombies. That would be a nightmare, but it would also makes a pretty awesome horror movie, either animated or live-action.
J love it!!!!
Yep, the wind is much more realistic than some created wind noises. Takes the scene to a whole nutha lefal!!
What's really disappointing from the later releases of Heavy Metal is that it's missing much of the audio, this scene in particular.
Yeah, Starchaser and Transformers are pretty good examples of animation. I just watched Fire and Ice last night for the first time.
Seen Wizards, Watership Down, Fritz the Cat, American Pop, The Wall, Fantastic Planet, Lightyears aka Gandahar, Felidae, Ninja Scroll, Akira, Princess Mononoke etc.?
If only Taarna would have come in to the rescue and give these bone heads and attitude adjustment and from there take skip with her to her world to kick more ass. Plus Taarna and skip would have made a good couple and would have been nice if her and skip appeared on the end to defeat the loc nar and while the girl find off Taarna and Skip drive off in the corvette
Yup that be awesome, someone should do a fanfiction of that and it be like Wonder Woman and Steve
That's just a really bad day.
Isn't there supposed to be a gunner in that upper turret behind the cockpit as well, and didn't B17's have a crew of about 10-13?
Remember the movie 'Memphis Belle' where Eric Stoltz's character Danny was the radio operator on the Belle he also operated the gun turret on top of the Belle behind the cockpit so I think that was the same with all the radio operators on all B-17s.
the entire story is about the Locknar, the green ball traveling through the universe.
Heavy Metal 🤘 🎸!!! I have this movie.
The one that bailed out?
What happened to the top ball turret gunner you never find out
This is from heavy metal I think
Thats all where is the rest of the part and whats next after this island scene?
@coachmilldawg oh i see thank you i thought there its continunation of it
yunfortunately nobvody has though to make a sequel of it
Yes they did..
Awesome
I am not sure what the jet is supposed to indicate, other than the "island" seeming to be misplaced in time.
You think maybe that where some missing planes lost in Bermuda Triangle ended up? There were aircraft from WW 1 and even before, but didn't see any beyond 1940s.
Tripping balls best scene