Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a 1986 documentary short produced by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn.

The film features interviews with several small groups of young heavy metal fans gathered for a tailgate party in the parking lot outside the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland on May 31, 1986, as they prepare for a Judas Priest/Dokken concert being held there later that evening.

By the early 1990s, Heavy Metal Parking Lot had become an underground cult-classic, usually traded on bootleg VHS videotapes.

Due to growing popularity of the film, music copyright issues arose between the producers and Judas Priest, though they were eventually resolved.

[4] Krulik and Heyn created and co-produced the 2004 TV series Parking Lot in association with Radical Media, which was broadcast on Trio.