Antichrist

2009 Directed by Lars von Trier

When nature turns evil, true terror awaits.

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Willem Dafoe Charlotte Gainsbourg Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

Alternative Titles

Antychryst, Anticristo, Antikrist, O antihristos, Антихрист, Antihrist, 撒旦的情與慾, Antikristas, Deccal, 失落伊甸园, Antikrisztus, 안티크라이스트, 反基督者, El Anticristo

horror drama thriller

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Review by Wes ★½ 15

this movie: "dedicated to andrei tarkovsky"
me: andrei sweetie im literally so sorry im so sorry this ugly ass bitch would even say that. oh my god.
Review by Lucy ★★½ 3

a great first date movie
Review by maria ★★★★ 18

i have a very weird relationship with lars von trier, as all of us do i think. i fucking hate his movies, but i actually don't, but i really do, but not really and i can't stop watching them when i really should but i really don't want to but i really do and it's all just......... wack
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★½ 15

I hate this man
Review by iana ★★★ 2

that was good can't wait to never watch it again
Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 32

You can say alot of things about lars von trier both good and bad but you can never say he didn't serve up enough provocative portions of psychological gobbledygook to keep us chewing on our cud for days on end!
The opening scene in black and white is unbearably beautiful! If you look at it too long your retinas will surely fry for they have never been ravaged by such exquisite imagery!
The slo mo acts of unbridled amour accompanied by the intensely haunting aria Lascia ch'io pianga have been seared into your memory, the branding iron still stinks of burnt flesh! The other shoe falls an innocent young life is taken! You hear the sizzle as the iron finds…
Review by DirkH ★★ 14

So.....I guess von Trier took the whole 'torture porn' thing too literally.
I can take the pretentiousness and can forgive the self-indulgent ramblings and thickly laid on self-importance.
I can even stand the yucky bits.
What I can't stand is the shallow, cold and completely unengaging treatment of its potentially intriguing subject matter.
Review by Josh Keown | Night Terror Novels 🧛🏻‍♂️ ★★★★½ 6

“Nature is Satan's church.”
- She (Charlotte Gainsbourg)
Over on the Internet Movie Database, someone once described Lars Von Trier as, and I quote, ‘an arty wanker’.
Now, although that is perhaps the most unsophisticated and rudimentary way of expressing it, they did have a point. It isn’t hard to see why Trier could be considered pretentious, especially with his most controversial outing yet, Antichrist.
To say it is unforgettable is a gross understatement. Rather, for better or worse, it sears itself into your subconscious, tapping its way into your most deep seated fears. It is a film that will astonish and infuriate in equal measure, a film that cannot be simply watched, but felt. The exact emotions felt will…
Review by Marian ★★ 4

what was the damn point lars
Review by PopcornIdeology ★★ 25

Dear Lars von Trier,
Hello incel, first I wanted to say fuck you for dedicating this pretentious ass movie to Andrei Tarkovsky, I hate you for that. Also, thank you so much for reminding me that women are either hysterical or evil. And yes, good thinking, you can trick people into thinking a sequence is good by making it black and white and slow-mo while random classical music plays, nice touch. Also, I have to compliment you for making a completely meandering and pointless film that is so confused and directionless it made me angry. But hey, it’s ok I forgive you because that penis squirting blood scene was top notch. So far I hate your work.
Sincerely,
Your #1 Fan

4.0 / 10
Review by zuhair vazir ★★★★½ 9

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Do not be mistaken. This is a film by the aberrant and outlandish Lars von Trier, who after a lengthy bout of depression made a film in 2009, which is an 'uneasy-intimate' experience with subtle, slow motion shots of snow fall, an explicit shower sex-scene and babies accidentally falling out of open windows. The camera follows the entire 23 second fall of the toddler until the tiny thing (I am still trying to convince myself that it was only a film prop; it certainly was, but not the fiendishly beautiful direction) makes contact with asphalt.
The metamorphoses of the film into a full blown violent, psychological horror drama is film-making at its best and most vile. Not everything is in…
Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★ 4

oh so that's what the fox say

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Review by IslandUnto ★★★½

If I met von Trier in the street I would run far, far away from the man. This film is terrifyingly surreal and I'm pretty sure it gave me heart palpitations. As with everyone else I'm baffled by the fact that he chose to dedicate this to Tarkovsky. In the least it gave me a laugh after 40 minutes of confusion and cringing in horror
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