LORDS OF CHAOS (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Rory Culkin (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), Emory Cohen (Brooklyn), Anthony De La Torre (Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge), Sky Ferreira (The Green Inferno), Jack Kilmer (Palo Alto), Valter Skarsgård (IRL), Sam Coleman (Leatherface), Jonathan Barnwell (film debut), Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht (Habermann), Lucian Charles Collier (Spaceship), Anette Martinsen (Svengali), Andrew Lavelle (Waiting for Leonard Green), James Edwin (film debut), Arion Csihar (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jonas Åkerlund (Polar), director, writer, editor; Dennis Magnusson (King of Devil’s Island), writer; Jack Arbuthnott (The Aftermath), Jim Czarnecki (Bowling for Columbine), Kwesi Dickson (Cracks), Danny Gabai (The Bad Batch), Erik Gordon (Mission Blue), Kai-Lu Hsiung (Someone Else), Ko Mori (Death Ride) and Fredrik Zander (Summer of the Flying Saucer), producers; Pär M. Ekberg (The Ketchup Effect), cinematographer; Rickard Krantz (The Hidden Child), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1987, Euronymous (Culkin) is a young man living in Oslo, Norway, and is desperate to escape his traditional upbringing, wanting instead to create true Norwegian black metal with his band Mayhem. After a series of shocking publicity stunts put him and his band on the map, the lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Rory Culkin dives deep into the dark and disturbing world of Norwegian heavy metal music, in this eye-opening horror that’s as shocking as any heavy metal band you could think of.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 29TH MARCH 2019

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