"Metalhead" To See Video On Demand Release In April

Boasting a soundtrack of ‘80s/‘90s headbanging classics, Icelandic director Ragnar Bragason’s intense drama "Metalhead" (reviewed here) will be available on demand starting April 3rd.

Distributed by Cinelicious Pics, the VOD release will arrive shortly after a handful of special screenings being held nationwide, including at New York’s Cinema Village (March 20 – 26) and Los Angeles’ Laemmle NoHo 7 (March 27 – April 2) along with Seattle’s SIFF Uptown Theatre (Feb. 27 – March 1) and Portland’s Hollywood Theatre (April 10 - 16). The movie will be shown in eight cities (with more to be announced soon) and a full list of screenings can be found below.

Fueled by a remarkable breakout performance by actress Thora Bjorg Helga, Bragason’s drama of loss, faith, redemption, and heavy metal begins with a farming accident in the 1980’s that sends a young girl named Hera and her parents into a tail-spin of grief over the death of her heavy metal music-obsessed older brother. A decade later, Hera is transformed into a surly headbanger, dressed in black leather and a Slayer t-shirt, clutching her dead brother’s electric guitar as she howls anthems of rage to a barn full of cows. Seemingly trapped in a haunted landscape of slaughterhouses and barren winter fields, making all the wrong choices in her life, Hera slowly and painfully comes to terms with her family’s loss and the sound of her own true voice.

02/14 – Lowell, MA @ Luna Theater
02/22 – 02/23 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
02/27 – 03/01 – Seattle, WA @ SIFF Uptown
02/27 – 03/05 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
03/18 – 03/20 – New York, NY @ Scandinavia House / New Nordic Cinema
03/20 – 03/26 – New York, NY @ Cinema Village
03/27 – 04/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ Laemmle NoHo 7
04/10 – 04/16 – Portland, OR @ Hollywood Theatre
04/27 – Pleasantville, NY @ Jacob Burns Film Center

METALHEAD - Theatrical Trailer from Cinelicious Pics on Vimeo.