Don't know what to do for Halloween?
Well, here's a suggestion: Why don't you go check out some Norwegian Black Metal Trick-or-Treaters?
Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's documentary Until the Light Takes Us, which offers a peek into the spooky world of Norwegian Black Metal, will be screened at the AFI FEST 2008 at 7:45 p.m. on Friday, October 31, at ArcLight Hollywood. (The film will have a second screening at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5, at Mann's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.)
As per the Until the Light Takes Us press release, black metal founders "consist of a handful of surprisingly articulate Norwegian teenage friends with a complex set of extreme nationalistic, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian beliefs. These young men actually practice what they preach, engaging in rampant church burning, suicide and even murder, while in the process becoming some of the most notorious criminals in European history."
That's what happens when you grow up watching too many dubbed Disney cartoons.
Anyhow, filmmakers Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell spent two years living among those guys, including members of the inner "Black Circle." Among those is Varg Vikernes (aka Count Grishnackh, above), one of the instigators of this radical scene.
Until the Light Takes Us features music by Black Dice, Boards of Canada, Burzum, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Sunn 0))), Thorns, Ulver, in addition to interviews with filmmaker and heavy metal fan Harmony Korine.
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