The experimental horror starring Willem Dafoe, and Charlotte Gainsbourg follows terror that befalls a family, starting with their sons death to an unhinged sexual violence between a the couples.
Antichrist is a unique form of cruel and unusual punishment: an unrelenting orgy of graphic sex, violence and cynicism that also manages to be wildly pretentious.
LarsenOnFilm
March 19, 2014
...absurdly abstract in a way von Trier's best films are not.
Von Trier, never exactly an optimist, has never been this gloomy and pessimistic. Antichrist is the feel-bad movie of the year.
Film Comment Magazine
September 24, 2014
There will be no thumbs up or down ... [The film] is neither disgusting ... nor is it one of the great films. It is a transitional work made by an artist clearly in crisis.
Antichrist is a boldly personal film, tossing all von Trier's ideas about faith, fear, and human nature into an unfettered phantasmagoria, full of repulsive visions and fierce scorn.
