Casting Macaulay Culkin as real-life Manhattan club kid turned killer Michael Alig turns out to be more stunt than inspiration. The Home Alone star, 23, goes through the motions (the drag, the drugs, the bisexuality) but misses the emotions that might explain how a bullied brat went from scenester to a slayer able to shove Drano down the throat of a dealer. Seth Green is far better as James St. James, the writer who introduced Michael to the 1990s clubs. Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato handled the tale more cogently in their 1999 documentary. This film feels fake, forced and indigestible.

“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”