2018 · drama · music · thriller
Lords of Chaos
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund1h 58m2018
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.
Our read: Lords of Chaos (2018) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive drama · music · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / music, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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“You want transgressive Norwegian black-metal history told as punk horror.”
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