A collection of short stories, most based on stories from the cult follower magazine item "Heavy Metal", are connected by the Loc-Nah: the glowing green ball of doom, which an astronaut presents to his daughter as a gift, only to be killed by the thing. After killing the astronaut guy, the glowing green ball of doom starts harassing/torturing/tormenting the poor girl with stories of its evil antics across the universe - stories that yo-yo wildly back and forth between absurdist humor to dark fantasy to horror, most if not all with an element of science fiction in it, and almost all of them very heavy on the eroticism.
1) Harry Canyon: the story of a crass, cynical New York cab driver in the post Apocalyptic future. One day he gets caught up in a conspiracy that involves the Loc-Nah.
2) Den: A nerdy teenager nerd boy picks up the Loc-Nah after it crash lands in his backyard. When he tries to experiment on it, he gets flung into an alternate dimension planet called Neverwhere Land, where he is transformed in a giant bald beef-cake with superhuman strength, pursued by beautiful, busty women (one of them a Native of Earth who was also transformed from a frail, unhealthy girl into a beautiful, more "womanly" individual). He too is caught up in a plot involving the Loc-Nah, which is also in this world, and is the pinpoint in a big huge sacrifice.
3) Captain Stern: A ruggedly handsome but irredeemably evil scoundrel is on trial for his various misdeeds, but he bribes a weakling named Hanover Fist to speak on his behalf at the trial, but Hanover gets a hold of the Loc-Nah, and it may or may not influence his Hulk like rampage at the trial. But will the righteously brutish version of Hanover win out over the evil Captain Lincoln F. Stern? 4) Zombies on a plane: a sequence involving zombies tearing up an old WW II fighter plane and its ill-fated passengers.
5) Stoner Aliens & the randy robot: A beautiful, buxom red head secretary is abducted by two stoner aliens and their over-sexed robot, who then take us on a space odyssey like no other.
6) The last story concerns the last Tarakian Taarna, a beautiful yet silent warrior woman with white hair who rides a flying pterodactyl is given the task of thwarting a race of green skilled mutants, who owe their very existence to the Loc-Nah after the thing crashed into a volcano. Though the beautiful Taarna is captured, stripped naked, tortured (possibly raped) and left for dead, she ultimately prevails in thwarting the mutants and destroying the Loc-Nah. The last story comes back to the present where the Loc-Nah is destroyed once again, revealing that the girl is in fact the next Tarakian.
Uneven but atmospheric, very hit and miss, as tends to be the case with a lot of these adult animated epics. The Den sequence is probably the most entertaining, thanks in no small part to the voice performance of the late John Candy as the nerd & his brawny alter ego. Also worth a look for the Elmer Bernstein score as well as the look at old school animation.
1) Harry Canyon: the story of a crass, cynical New York cab driver in the post Apocalyptic future. One day he gets caught up in a conspiracy that involves the Loc-Nah.
2) Den: A nerdy teenager nerd boy picks up the Loc-Nah after it crash lands in his backyard. When he tries to experiment on it, he gets flung into an alternate dimension planet called Neverwhere Land, where he is transformed in a giant bald beef-cake with superhuman strength, pursued by beautiful, busty women (one of them a Native of Earth who was also transformed from a frail, unhealthy girl into a beautiful, more "womanly" individual). He too is caught up in a plot involving the Loc-Nah, which is also in this world, and is the pinpoint in a big huge sacrifice.
3) Captain Stern: A ruggedly handsome but irredeemably evil scoundrel is on trial for his various misdeeds, but he bribes a weakling named Hanover Fist to speak on his behalf at the trial, but Hanover gets a hold of the Loc-Nah, and it may or may not influence his Hulk like rampage at the trial. But will the righteously brutish version of Hanover win out over the evil Captain Lincoln F. Stern? 4) Zombies on a plane: a sequence involving zombies tearing up an old WW II fighter plane and its ill-fated passengers.
5) Stoner Aliens & the randy robot: A beautiful, buxom red head secretary is abducted by two stoner aliens and their over-sexed robot, who then take us on a space odyssey like no other.
6) The last story concerns the last Tarakian Taarna, a beautiful yet silent warrior woman with white hair who rides a flying pterodactyl is given the task of thwarting a race of green skilled mutants, who owe their very existence to the Loc-Nah after the thing crashed into a volcano. Though the beautiful Taarna is captured, stripped naked, tortured (possibly raped) and left for dead, she ultimately prevails in thwarting the mutants and destroying the Loc-Nah. The last story comes back to the present where the Loc-Nah is destroyed once again, revealing that the girl is in fact the next Tarakian.
Uneven but atmospheric, very hit and miss, as tends to be the case with a lot of these adult animated epics. The Den sequence is probably the most entertaining, thanks in no small part to the voice performance of the late John Candy as the nerd & his brawny alter ego. Also worth a look for the Elmer Bernstein score as well as the look at old school animation.