Lords of Chaos
2018 · Movie · R · 118 min · ★ 6.8 · 61% critics
In 1990s Oslo, a teenager tries to kick-start a new black metal movement, building a tight-knit scene around shocking image and rebellion. As the need to seem more “authentic” escalates, the group’s posturing and rivalry spiral into increasingly dangerous real-world violence.
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Details
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-09-20
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Critic score
- 61/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (553 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a bleak, darkly funny true-crime-leaning shocker about youth culture turning toxic; Not for you if you avoid explicit violence, suicide themes, or nasty characters—think closer to The House That Jack Built than a music biopic.
Pros: darkly funny moments; intense, graphic brutality; interesting music-scene backdrop | Cons: uneven tone shifts; questionable factual accuracy; hard to like characters
Themes
- suicide
- based on novel or book
- nihilism
- heavy metal
- biography
- based on true story
- norway
- self mutilation
- oslo, norway
- black metal
- semi-biographical
- norwegian
Cast & crew
Rory Culkin
as Øystein 'Euronymous' Aarseth
Emory Cohen
as Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes
Jack Kilmer
as Pelle 'Dead' Ohlin
Sky Ferreira
as Ann-Marit
Valter Skarsgård
as Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun
Anthony De La Torre
as Jan Axel 'Hellhammer' Blomberg
Sam Coleman
as Jon 'Metalion' Kristiansen
Jonathan Barnwell
as Jørn 'Necrobutcher' Stubberud
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
as Varg's Driver
Lucian Charles Collier
as Stian 'Occultus' Johannsen
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund