9 Movies With Way Too Much Gratuitous Nudity

4. Heavy Metal

In 1981, Ivan Reitman helped bring an animated version of the comic book Heavy Metal, known for its abundant nudity and gore, to the big screen. The movie consists of a series of fantasy and science fiction vignettes linked together by the presence of a mystical green orb known as the Loc-Nar.

The Canadian production tapped notable Canadian comedies from the sketch comedy series SCTV to help voice the feature, including Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, and John Candy. The film version of Heavy Metal received largely dismissive reviews on its release but enjoyed a healthy box office.

Despite the cool critical reception, audiences kept coming back to see the very adult cartoon and Heavy Metal developed a cult following at midnight screenings akin to the cult around The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Heavy Metal's continued popularity can be attributed to its willingness to throw as much animated T & A at the screen as possible.

Each vignette finds ample opportunity for its animated female characters (all of whose proportions defy human physiology as we know it) to disrobe, from a mystical female warrior who must swim nude in a purifying pool before she goes into battle, to a secretary abducted from the White House and seduced by an alien robot, to a nymphomaniac queen who rules tyrannically over an alien planet.

Heavy Metal is juvenile male fantasy distilled into its purest form; no vignette represents this more so than "Den", the tale of a nerdy teen transported by the Loc-Nar to a planet called Neverwhere where the Loc-Nar then transforms him into a well hung bodybuilder who finds himself a hit with ladies. Heavy Metal's no holds barred approach to nudity and violence won it an enduring audience and a spot on our list.