This documentary achieves more laughs in its piddly seventeen minutes than most comedies do in two hours. It’s May 31, 1986. Headbanging metal bands Judas Priest and Dokken are playing the Capital Centre arena in Largo, Maryland and two milquetoast filmmakers, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, lug a video camera and a microphone all over the parking lot to interview the crowd who hang around their Toronados and get smashed, trashed, and pumped for the show. Like a great song, you can watch this over and over and memorize its best lines (and many have). A genuine cult movie, this spent years circulating on bootleg videotapes among touring rock bands, metalheads, and underground film fans. It’s better than This is Spinal Tap, because it’s all real.
The packed DVD release is amazing. Cancel all plans for the evening.