Lords of Chaos

Hail Åkerlund! The Swedish director has made a pitch-perfect black metal dramedy about real-life head-bangers who lost their minds.

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Lords of Chaos (based on the book of the same name by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind) puts the viewer in the doomed boots of Euronymous (Culkin), a 17-year-old with a dream of pushing metal cliches into a twisted reality.

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“Lords Of Chaos” is more interested in the spectacle than the substance behind the true story, and that kind of phoniness likely wouldn’t even get the film or Åkerlund invited into The Black Circle.

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"Lords of Chaos"—a new horror film that dramatizes real, heavy-metal-related murders committed in Oslo during the early 1990s—is half-warm, half-frigid.

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If the music is beside the point, why are we supposed to care about the people who made it?

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Jonas Åkerlund’s look at the fast rise and bloody fall of Mayhem should be the real deal — so why does it hit all the wrong notes

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Akerlund, a veteran music-video director who intersperses Lords of Chaos with mildly surrealistic bursts, never establishes a coherent or interesting point of view. The tone unproductively veers from the goofy to the creepy, which creates a sense that he was still figuring it out in the editing.

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