From my favorite movies..

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I saw bunch of "metal" movies. Usually they are documentary about specific bands or metal culture overall, B-production horrors, comedies or horror-comedies, but this is the very first time I ran into drama. This Icelandic movie brings painful story about girl whose metal-head brother died when she was twelve. Trying to deal with her pain she turns to his music, loses faith in God and finally, under influence of burning churches in Norway in early 90's, she turns to black metal. Story about loss, thoughtlessness, unconformity and rebellion, growing up and finding one true self. Slow, heavy and realistic movie that stands out from the mass of template teenage drama to which we are accustomed. It's not masterpiece, but it is worth your time and I warmly recommend it.8/10

Altogether the movie has a cool visual style to it. Grief and loneliness was well displayed through the tasteful pacing of dialogue and also the farming life placed in the scenic landscape of Iceland.When it comes to narration, general plot and the protagonists acting, the movie failed(IMO). Many situations didn't get a proper introduction or rectification, so it often felt random and strange.!!!SPOILER!!! You see her transformation from a antisocial rebel to a silent, good girl, moving together with a friend she doesn't love and becoming a housewife within three scenes - saying all was explained symbolically isn't an excuse for that. This all leads to the story itself. Norwegian Black Metalheads (like you would expect them in Wayne's World, as a guy before me noted) appear and stay with her for days to help building the church (LOL) and played with her for the village commune - oh, and they thought the people would love it for sure. I won't comment on the audience's reaction. I thought, the movie couldn't get cheesier until I experienced the Megadeth dance-off. Also Hera's (Thora Bjorg Helga) relationship to heavy metal couldn't possibly get closer to a distorted cliché of a subculture some worried parents could have in mind.I'll give it a 5 because I found the idea creative and the visuals nicely done.

It's not often I see Icelandic movies available let alone ones that peak my interest so I rushed to see Metalhead first opportunity I got.Initially I wasn't sure what to make of it but it didn't take me long to get engrossed into this fascinating little tale.Essentially a tale of grief and one girls way of handling a great pain in her life this is a story that many will empathise with (Though maybe not to some of the same extremes) With strong performances from the outset, a gripping highly original unique storyline & great soundtrack this is a piece of world cinema well worth anyone's time.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this movie. Title was either "hit or miss" and I was afraid it was going to be exploitation movie. But it's not.It was a great drama about how certain people deal with their pain, how people around them react to their, let's say unusual way of expressing their pain.Story fallows a young girl Hera who witnesses death (by accident) of her older brother. Few years after that, she still can't cope with pain of losing her brother, so she turns to metal music as a way of escapism. Naturally, living in small community, she is often misunderstood by others. She expresses her pain on her own "unique" way, while her parents express theirs on their own (father feeling accident was his fault, while mother has trouble moving on).Hera eventually goes on a self-destructive path because it's the only way she can deal with her loss and anger since no one can really understand how she feels. Good example of that scene is her best childhood friend who mistakes drunken sex for love, proposing to her, while she replies "Can't you see anything?"This is a movie about human nature, nature of pain, how certain people deal (or can't deal) with pain and loss of a loved one and how people sometimes judge people by it's cover.Guy who wrote a review here telling this movie is about "Jesus helping metalheads" just because it happens that movie has understandable priest (because you know, that can't happen in real life) clearly missed the point of the movie.This was never a movie about "Jesus helps metalhead". It was a movie about human nature. Hera never stopped being metalhead, it was just a hint that she and her parents are moving on eventually, because they, like rest of the community are starting to understand Hera.