Long before comic-book movies dominated Hollywood, one animated fantasy film fused science fiction, horror and hard rock into a cult phenomenon unlike anything audiences had seen before. Released in ...

This chapter explores how the fury of 1981—riots, unemployment, and political disillusionment—fed directly into a rebirth of UK punk and the rise of a new heavy metal movement. Through concerts, chaos ...

Gerald Potterton, the London-born filmmaker and animator who directed the 1981 animated cult favorite Heavy Metal and contributed to the memorable “Liverpool” sequence in the 1968 Beatles film Yellow ...