REVIEW: Heavy Metal Parking Lot [1986]

“Yeah, I’m on acid man, that’s where I am …” You hear the praise about John Heyn and Jeff Krulik’s Heavy Metal Parking Lot and think it can’t be true. A 16-minute videotaped documentary about the Metalheads waiting for a Judas Priest/Dokken concert at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland can’t be this religious experience as everyone says, supposedly making it a viewing favorite for Nirvana on tour. Needing more than a decade to ever get a theatrical showing outside of DC, the film was bootlegged widely and shared amongst…

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