Lords of Chaos

2018
16
1h 58min

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6,6/10

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A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1980s results in a violent outcome. 'Lords of Chaos' tells the true story of True Norwegian Black Metal and its most notorious practitioners - a group of young men with a flair for publicity, church-burning and murder: MAYHEM.

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La quête d'un adolescent pour lancer la musique 'métal noir' (Black Metal) norvégien à Oslo au début des années quatre-vingt-dix a engendré un résultat très violent.La quête d'un adolescent pour lancer la musique 'métal noir' (Black Metal) norvégien à Oslo au début des années quatre-vingt-dix a engendré un résultat très violent.La quête d'un adolescent pour lancer la musique 'métal noir' (Black Metal) norvégien à Oslo au début des années quatre-vingt-dix a engendré un résultat très violent.

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8dsayshi257

Looking at this movie as a film, and a film only.

What I mean by my title is that I am not too familiar with the real story, and I have seen a lot of reviews on here bashing the movie for not being true to reality. I understand where they are coming from but as someone who knows only surface level stuff about Mayhem, I will review this movie just from a movie perspective, no bias over real events.

So, just by looking a this movie as a film, I enjoyed it quite a bit! I thought that the story was intriguing and sad, and I found myself very engaged with what I was watching. There were three scenes in particular that really stood out and shocked me. I thought they were relatively realistic and very emotional, but what really stood out to me was the performance by Rory Culkin. I think he was absolutely fantastic in this role and I can't wait to see what else he is going to be in in the future.

Overall, it is far from a perfect movie but for what it is it is sad, entertaining, brutal and emotional with a standout performance by Rory.

8AnusPresley

There's a lot of fan thing crap spoiling the reviews

Get something straight up front - this is a movie, not a documentary. It will have errors. Get over it, move on.

As a whole it does well to bring to life the schizo genius/idiocy of the roots of black metal. It is ~90% accurate which makes it leaps ahead of most docu-dramas. To the unwashed, this may seem like a parody of sorts. But the reality is that the main players were a fringe crazy that was beyond parody. Yes, they were all probably like that and the film understates it if anything.

Black metal is a thing. Yes there is a point about the desecration of Asatru shrines. No it does not justify anything. If the film does have a flaw it is in emphasising satanism and odinism - no, their thing predates that. It is otherwise a fine retelling, Don't listen to the _Mayhem_ cultists. This is a good movie.

j_glentzes

Hilariously bad.

This works great as a parody. What is presented here has nothing to do with the real events, most characters are straight out of an American teen movie, every character is completely different from the real life version in everything (looks, behavior) and the story is insultingly false. The book was already bad, the movie is about 100 times worse. No band gave the rights to its music, even bands that had no real involvement in the true events that the movie is trying, and failing spectacularly, to portray. I love the few good reviews and the downvoting of the one negative review that says the truth, the movie will bomb either way. If you want to see an American teen movie with romance, sex, American humor and a bit of fake drama then this is for you. If you want to see a serious drama based on tragic events then avoid it like the plague.

6kop_lad

Bloody horrific!!

Some really disturbing scenes in this piece, based loosely on the tragedy. Not for the faint hearted, some good acting and very lifelike gore. Not a bad film by any means!

8nicksbrittin

Engaging, but people will hate it

I'm not sure how a person who isn't a fan of black metal would react to the film, but I enjoyed it. It's funny at times, and as a former elitist teenager who wouldn't associate with "posers," I can verify that the jerky attitude displayed by the characters is probably accurate. It gets better as it progresses, and by the end of the film, there are some very interesting discussions on art and philosophy. People will hate it, however, because most metal fans fancy themselves experts on the scene, and they'll be too cool to admit that it's actually a good movie.

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Anecdotes
Anders Ohlin (Pelle 'Dead' Ohlin)'s brother was very supportive of the movie and one of the pairs of jeans that Jack Kilmer's character wears is a pair that belonged to Pelle. All of the other clothes were designed from scratch but those particular jeans were legitimate.

Gaffes
When Dead commits suicide with the shotgun, the sound of an empty shell is heard bouncing around on the ground. He is using a break-open shotgun, which doesn't automatically eject spent shells.

Citations
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: I'm going to release my music on my own label.
Euronymous: What does that mean?
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: I don't need you anymore.
Euronymous: Okay. If that's what you want, okay.
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: You'll have to find another idiot to steal everything from.
Euronymous: I haven't stolen anything from you.
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: You're recording Mayhem's album with money made from Burzum's sales, money that belongs to me!
Euronymous: That money went straight back to you. You're the bass player of Mayhem now, remember?
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: I quit. You only put me in the band to get attention.
Euronymous: The album's almost finished. It's gonna be big; world tour, everything.
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: Tour? I thought you were true Norwegian black metal.
Euronymous: I fucking invented it.
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: And now you betray it! You're a hypocrite. We should be making true Black Metal music for a select few. Tours are for posers. "Never sell out." That's what you said.
Euronymous: Saying things like "never sell out" fucking sells. Come on. I made all that shit up. Nobody gave a shit about us. I attracted people by saying, "You can't have this. You're not worthy." It's just promotion.
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: No, no. Not for me. I believed in it, and I still do.
Euronymous: So do I, but it has to make sense. It has to sell. Otherwise, what the fuck are we doing here?
[Varg gives Euronymous the skull fragment necklace back]
Euronymous: You can keep that. That's a piece of chicken bone.
Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes: Chicken bone? Fake as everything else with you.

Crédits fous
The end credits roll the opposite way they usually do (top to bottom, as opposed to bottom to top). Likely a nod to the upside down crosses used throughout the band's logo and black metal imagery.

Versions alternatives
The US theatrical and DVD releases were cut for an R rating, toning down the gory violence of Dead's suicide, Faust's stabbing and Euronymous' murder. The unrated 'directors cut' version is only available on Blu-ray in the US. It runs for 118 minutes instead of 116 as per the R-rated version.