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Favorite Films: FLOOD Managing Editor and Film Buff Mike LeSeur Shares His Favorite ‘Most Metal’ Movies Ever

Posted in Favorite Films, Features, Interviews with tags , , on 11/14/2026 by Kurt Orzeck
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Mike LeSeur, the managing editor of FLOOD website/magazine and one of the best editor for whom this editor has ever contributed, obviously knows his shit when it comes to music. Turns out he’s also a brainiac when it comes to movies. (He turned yours truly on to Coherence, if memory serves.)

This writer has had the good fortune of working for Mike since he took on his role at FLOOD some years ago, after more than a decade of contributing for two decades for FLOOD and its predecessor, FILTER. In short, the Bad Penny archives would be weaker than the knee-trembling members of the Trump cabinet were it not for those publications, Mike and chief Randy Bookasta.

When approached to contribute to The Bad Penny‘s self-evidently titled Favorite Films, he perhaps rather cheekily replied with “the 11 most metal movies I’ve ever seen (well, the good ones, anyway).” (Mike knows very well that I’m as much into indie-rock as metal, but that doesn’t diminish my appreciation of his stellar contribution.)

Without further do, here are Mike’s picks. To his credit, yours truly has only seen five of these … let’s make a pact to check them all, shall we?

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