Lords of Chaos

Lords of Chaos
6.8

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Directed by: Jonas Åkerlund

Overview

A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

Reviews (5)

  • Dean (Rated: 2)

    This movie is more comedy/parody than representation of real events. It doesn't represent truth as movie claims. Performance is weak and few things are absolutely made up, like Aarseth having girlfriend. He never had girlfriend, he was gay & he didn't even cut his hair (like they showed in movie) ac...

  • SgtKowalski (Rated: 10)

    A very well-made thing, in the middle between “lad-film” and “psycho-drama”.

    However, there’s a layer missing, and I don’t mean “where’s muh black metal soundtrack” or “Varg was right” or “but there was deep philosophy!!!111” or some such.

    What I mean is the following: in the film “Generation ...

  • Stephen Campbell (Rated: 7)

    Equal parts funny and harrowing; an enjoyable "true story"

    Violent torture

    Death has arrived

    Armageddon

    Terror and fright

    Bleeding corpses

    Rotting decay

    Anarchy

    Violent torture

    Antichrist

    Lucifer

    Son of Satan

    _Pur...

  • Gimly (Rated: 7)

    Lords of Chaos is not a Mayhem biopic. If you're looking for that, or if you're looking for a film about the rise of Black Metal in Norway, look entirely elsewhere. This is - at its surface - basically just a film about Euronymous and his relationship with Dead, and then with Varg. But it's really...

  • tmdb28039023 (Rated: 1)

    Lords of Chaos makes me channel my inner John Cusack as I wonder, do Norwegians listen to black metal because they are miserable, or are they miserable because they listen to black metal? As for me, I know I was miserable because I was watching this movie.

    Lords of Chaos is a semi-fictional (thou...

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