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 ★★★★★ 31

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 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 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 ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★ 4

oh so that's what the fox say

Recent reviews

Review by marco bermudez ★★★★½

To preface I’ve never been a huge fan of Lars von Trier. His trolling, disingenuous films have often kept me at a distance; on top of the fact that his clear misogyny in his demonization of women in disconcerting at best.
But he rather impressed me with Melancholia, even though these criticisms were still valid with that film. But his blatant pretentiousness mixed with his nihilism was kind of...infectious?
So I prepared myself for Antichrist, which has been considered sickeningly brutal and hard to watch.
And while is that and so much more, it’s also a tale of the callousness, meaninglessness and chaos of nature. On top of an examination of grief with echoes of Freud, and gender complexes and…
Review by MariamRahim ★★★★

Exposure. That's the only thing that works. Everything else is just talk. You have to have to courage to stay in the situation that frightens. And then you'll learn that fear isn't dangerous.
Review by Anton Bronfman ★★★½

I understand Lars Von Trier’s ‘genius’. But, after three attempts, I don’t think I can appreciate its greatness. And I don’t think I ever will.
Review by Fabrimovie ★★★★½

Me encantó, muy linda trama, ni hablar de la calidad de las tomas a las que nos tiene acostumbrado este director con la dosis justa de esas escenas que atentan contra nuestra moral.
Review by Víctor 📽

No sé muy bien que nota ponerle, así que de momento se queda así; es ese tipo de cine que hay que dejar reposar durante bastante tiempo. Sólo sé que es impactante, sorprendente y perturbadora casi a partes iguales. La dirección de Lars 🙌
El "Dedicada a Andrei Tarkovsky" era lo último que esperaba.
Review by Woodyj8993

Sickening and horrific yet disturbingly beautiful. Antichrist is quite possibly the most emotionally draining thing I’ve ever watched
Review by jblue ★★★★

I wish I never saw it. But I’m also glad I did.
Review by London ★★★★

I think this is good? Maybe great? Maybe not? I'll think about it.
Review by Michaela George ★★★★

I think it is difficult to leave a film and feel like you have seen something affecting life and depicting it in a realistic way — especially the darkest sides. But I felt the absolute desolate isolation of depression and grief in this film. It is obvious that when you watch a von Trier film, you are seeing inside his brain and watching a painting come to life.
Review by Spencer Garrison

Adapting this into a children’s book
Review by Lukas

the worst movie ive ever seen
Review by Sharonpavane ★★★★

Disturbing. Very disturbing. Unusual. Very unusual. I will not ever rewatch this and sort of wish I would not have watched this. But I like a lot of this directors work so I wanted to see it. Also so many rated it so highly. I do like the art house facets of it and film style and score and acting was excellent. Subject matter was just upsetting.