Willem Dafoe is the cold voice of rationality, but he can barely be heard above the raving hysteria of his wife. The film pivots around the powerful theme of male versus female, logic and reason versus passion and emotion. But to write it off as sexed-up cruelty would be to do it a great disservice.
If Antichrist had been released in the '80s, it would have been banned as a video nasty.
ANTICHRIST MOVIE SELF MUTILATION SCENE FULL
Like a cross between Don't Look Now and Evil Dead, with a dash of Misery and a large dose of Danish pretentiousness thrown in, Antichrist is a really quite extraordinary film, combining boldly explicit sex scenes, that express more about the characters' state of mind than any amount of dialogue, with a gnawingly uncomfortable sense of encroaching nature (very) red in tooth and claw, classic horror tropes like the attic full of satanic images and deranged manuscripts, unspeakably brutal (but never gratuitous) violence and some truly awesome cinematography, with gorgeous slow-mo, eerie distortions of the screen and creepy tracking shots entrancing and unnerving in equal measure. But it quickly becomes clear that her increasing paranoia and anxiety began long before their son's death. When a nameless couple lose their young son, the therapist husband (Willem Dafoe) attempts to help his wife through the grieving process by forcing her to confront her deepest fear: the woods surrounding a ramshackle holiday cabin in an isolated spot called Eden. If I wasn't severely traumatized by the end of this movie, I wanted my money back.īut in fact Antichrist is a far more complex, disturbing and sexually graphic film than I could ever have imagined. So warned the Edinburgh International Film Festival website, and several notices placed at strategic intervals on the way into the cinema. Contains strong real sex scenes, bloody violence and self-mutilation.
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