Okay I saw it last night and felt like I was going to have a huge problem with so many things namely not showing what a huge dick Euronymous really was in real life. Nothing I say will spoil any part of the film. Scenes that we didn't exactly need: every scene involving Sky Ferreira, Inner Circle eating kebabs and drinking beer, Varg fucking girls In my opinion it should have featured the aftermath of Euronymous's death (the black metal guys armed themselves because there was a feud between Fin/Swe and Norway's metal bands Varg also said that Fenriz once left the house with an axe in fear), the recording of the Deathcrush EP and maybe flash forward to 2016: Mayhem playing live and worldwide. Sky Ferreira was kind of unnecessary, both for the storyline and cause she's not that good actress. The Mayhem guys did a good portrayal, although Messiah and Maniac weren't shown and Necrobutcher looked too much like the guys's father. However the scene at Grieghallen studios should have featured a "back office" band playing live Funeral Fog rather than having the original playing, which made Attila look like he was about to puke.įaust was amazingly portrayed and Occultus (hail Satan guy) was definitely unnecessary (he also played for Mayhem after Dead died, but it isn't told in LoC). The interview with the journalist is exactly as I expected it to be, with Varg wanting to appear pure evil but ending up as an edgy kid (just like the real one).īlackthorn (specifically, Varg's roommate/servant) should have had more recognition instead of being represented as a stoned nerd after all he contributed to evolve Euronymous's way of playing guitar (if you're new to black metal check Thorns Grymyrk demo).Īttila's presence was pretty cool, considering he's played by his son. Was he really vegetarian at that time? Plus, I don't think he was fucking every moving thing. I didn't exactly like Emory Cohen's portrayal of Varg (chubbiness and evilish voice). I read somewhere Akerlund got police reports that said his hair was short at the time, but still I don't think it was necessary. He takes an unblinking look at the fallout from a genre that staked so much of its image on death and, like Aarseth’s band name, mayhem.Ĭohen, so good in 2015’s “Brooklyn,” is chilling as the shark-eyed Varg (who has been linked to hate crimes in France in recent years), and Culkin brings just the right amount of eye-twitch to Aarseth, who seemingly enjoyed making grandiose proclamations of “evil” and donning corpse makeup rather than actual criminal activity - yet did little to stop out-of-control followers.I really liked it, although as every movie, it has its no's.įirst of all I'm still not getting over the fact that they cut Euronymous's hair before Varg kills him. Jonas Åkerlund, a Swedish director with a long history in music videos (he’s worked with acts from Madonna to Beyoncé to German industrial band Rammstein), gives an artful rendering of the pageantry of the scene, but doesn’t skimp on the gore either. Narrated by black metal pioneer and guitarist Oystein Aarseth (Rory Culkin), who went by “Euronymous,” the film follows the emergence of this shrieking, Scandinavian variant of heavy metal and an eventual standoff between Aarseth and the more intense, Nazi-friendly Varg Vikernes (Emory Cohen). The founders of Norway’s supposedly Satan-worshiping black metal scene actually delivered on some nightmarish acts, though, as depicted in the fascinatingly grim “Lords of Chaos,” adapted from the 2003 book.
Now playing.įor anyone old enough to remember, “Satanic panic” thrived in the US in the ’80s and ’90s - but that’s mostly what it was, unfounded hysteria. Rated R (violence, sex, profanity, disturbing images).
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