Heavy Metal Parking LotOn Arts Desk, Christopher Heller reports that Heavy Metal Parking Lot director Jeff Krulik’s other rock documentary, Heavy Metal Picnic, is getting a DVD release. Some have called Heavy Metal Parking Lot the best rock documentary of all time for its lasting depiction of tailgaters awaiting a Judas Priest concert in Landover, Md. in 1986.
But Picnic is no Parking Lot. Though filmed a year earlier, it was only completed in 2010 and isn’t quite the staple of the festival circuit and cult movie clubs. It’s kind of in the under-underground of oddball music films. When Heavy Metal Picnic finally emerged, City Paper contributor Mike Riggs explained why:
It isn’t until Krulik emails later to say he’ll be flying to Austin to screen a collection of his films—Heavy Metal Parking Lot included—that I realize what Heavy Metal Picnic is about. It is about Jeff Krulik. It is about revisiting a moment in someone else’s life that defined them in order to recreate a moment in Krulik’s life that defined him.
At least we’ll all be able to see it now. The $15 DVD is for sale online and will also be sold at Joe’s Record Paradise in Silver Spring and Atomic Books in Baltimore, Heller reports.
Watch the trailer below:
