gives such an excellent performance in it is just a bonus. For those two reasons, it’s metal as fuck that Lon Chaney Jr. The second is that it made the pentagram the official symbol of evil in eyes of the world. The first is that it introduced mainstream audiences to werewolves, the duplicitous beasts which metal fans will always relate to when it comes to their own repressed rage.
Though not particularly gruesome - it was made in the ‘40s, after all - The Wolf Man has two things going for it that make it particularly important to metal. From Aborted to Septicflesh, that meaty hideousness can be found in the works of metal bands for ages since the film’s release. But it’s the creature’s unholy body horror that makes it so metal having picked up pieces of countless alien races throughout its existence, the Thing is a Lovecraftian flesh buffet, sprouting legs, teeth, and tentacles at a moment’s notice. The Thing is a quiet horror movie overall, taking place in an Antarctic military base where an alien doppelganger is taking over one crew member after another. You can say this about John Carpenter: he makes silence and stillness feel loud as Hell. Get ready for some age-restricted YouTube embeds! Here are the 20 movies that made metalheads the monsters they are today. So in honor of Halloween, we decided to list the 20 horror films that most influenced heavy metal music. Whether due to their visual style, their tone, or their all-out gore, these movies forever altered the path down which metal music would innocently wander before being stabbed to death. If it bleeds, it leads.īut while horror as a whole has always inspired metal, there are a handful of films that undeniably shaped heavy metal culture.
That the first heavy metal band ever got their name from a Boris Karloff film advertised on a nearby theater marquee only validates the important relationship between cinematic terror and sonic extremity. The sinister darkness, emotional weight, and ugly honesty of horror film helped shape the minds of those twisted individuals who made heavy metal the cultural institution it is (a fucking mental institution). Without horror movies, heavy metal would not exist.
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