Apr 14 2009
Easter’s over, and the Antichrist is coming.
Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier has always been a combination of daring arthouse filmmaker and boundary-pushing provocateur, whether depicting a melding of sex and religion in 1996’s Breaking the Waves or reveling in the taboo-busting behavior of the protagonists in 1998’s The Idiots, which offered everything from the very un-p.c. mimicry of mental deficiencies through full-on penetration coital footage.
His latest movie, Antichrist, seems equally geared to raise effervescent kudos and angry rants alike. At its heart, it goes into standard supernatural horror territory: a grieving couple (played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) retreat to their cabin in the woods to mend their hearts and their troubled marriage, only to find sinister forces at work which could lead to an even more hellish existence. Sure, plot-wise it could be right down there with 2006’s remake of The Omen, but as the new Antichrist trailer shows, von Trier might be willing to cross some Hollywood-safe bounds that could make the film as edgy as one we’d normally expect from him.
Watch the preview below.
