Also, Varg comes across as a sniveling fanboy struggling to impress Euyronymous when in fact he was well-known on the scene and had already been in several bands before starting Burzum.

He was not, and they had already released an album, Deathcrush, the year before he joined. For example, the film indicates that Dead was the first singer of Mayhem. Instead, Г…kerlund takes a cue from the 1998 book that вЂњinspiredвЂќ the film, an acknowledged faulty source, and focuses on the controversy that surrounded it while caring little for historical accuracy. You would think a real biopic would take the time to capture a groundbreaking musical movement and really dig into the personalities of those who created it, as well as those who lost their lives for it. вЂњвЂ¦ prompting Euronymous to capitalize on the tragedy by taking pictures of the body, allegedly making necklaces from his skull fragmentsвЂ¦вЂќ Ultimately, everything spiraled out of control with church burnings and murder, culminating EuronymousвЂ™ death at the hands of Varg. Euronymous released VargвЂ™s music as Burzum while Varg joined Mayhem as bassist. Here, Kristian Vikernes, aka Varg (Emory Cohen), met Euronymous and the two became frenemies. Euronymous then opened a record store called Helvete, which became a focal point of the burgeoning Norwegian black metal scene. Sadly, Dead had some serious mental issues and brutally killed himself with a shotgun after a few years with the band, prompting Euronymous to capitalize on the tragedy by taking pictures of the body, allegedly making necklaces from his skull fragments and spreading a rumor that he ate some of his bandmateвЂ™s brain. They were gaining momentum when an enigmatic Swedish vocalist, Per Yngve Ohlin, aka Dead (Jack Kilmer), joined the group and pushed them to the next level. In mid-80s Norway, guitarist Гystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous (Rory Culkin), led a metal band called Mayhem. Ultimately, the icy half of the filmpretty much any scene involving violence or juvenile humorruins the warm half.

Jonas Г…kerlundвЂ™s Lords of Chaos follows suit, offering a myriad of inaccuracies in a shameful attempt to be edgy. 'Lords of Chaos'a new horror film that dramatizes real, heavy-metal-related murders committed in Oslo during the early 1990sis half-warm, half-frigid. Hell, at least we know the people in the porn are lying. Unfortunately, many people watching the film will not realize this, thus doing a disservice to both the viewer and the person whose life has been exploited for the sake of profit. ItвЂ™s not what happened itвЂ™s some writerвЂ™s interpretation of what happened. All as if the caveat of вЂњbased onвЂќ absolves the filmmakers of accuracy. They purport to tell factual stories about real people and events, while brazenly changing significant elements for convenience and dramatic effect.

As a general rule, biopics fall one step below porn in film hierarchy.

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