'' Lords of Chaos '' is a 2018 horror-thriller film directed by Jonas Åkerlund and written by Dennis Magnusson and Åkerlund . Adapted from the 1998 book of the same name , the film is a semi-fictionalised account of the early 1990s Norwegian black metal scene told from the perspective of Mayhem co-founder Euronymous . It stars Rory Culkin as Euronymous , Emory Cohen as Varg Vikernes , Jack Kilmer as Dead , and Sky Ferreira as Ann-Marit
early 1990s Norwegian black metal scene
Early Norwegian black metal scene
Lords of Chaos (film)