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Antichrist.
I'd heard about this film a while back. It was meant to be a "challenging" film to watch but worth the reward. I've seen it described as "extreme horror" and this interested me as these days most horrors seem to be thrillers with something a little scary thrown in.
From the outset you immediately get the impression this film is going to be weird and was going to leave nothing to the imagination. The slow motion graphic sex scene made sure of this. Indeed, there's plenty of bonking in this film, but it's no porn flick.
During the sex scene their child falls out of the window and the film is basically about the woman's journey into grief, despair and madness after this event.
Her husband tries to help her, and eventually gets her to face her fears by taking her up to a cabin in the woods.
This place is quite disturbing but you do get the impression she is getting better. Then she, well, I'll not do a spoiler but I practically jumped out of my seat shouting "Holy F**K"! There's not much violence in this film but what there is, is shocking stuff.
Despite the name, Antichrist has pretty much nothing to do with religion.
It is strange, disturbing and creepy movie, and yet it's beautifully filmed with the filming itself used to effect in strange ways.
This is not one of these modern thriller type horror films, this is a proper horror film, as in, it is actually horrific.
I throughly recommend it, but not if you are squeamish or easily disturbed!
Whatever you do, don't show it to children, they'll be having nightmares for *years* afterwards.
I'd heard about this film a while back. It was meant to be a "challenging" film to watch but worth the reward. I've seen it described as "extreme horror" and this interested me as these days most horrors seem to be thrillers with something a little scary thrown in.
From the outset you immediately get the impression this film is going to be weird and was going to leave nothing to the imagination. The slow motion graphic sex scene made sure of this. Indeed, there's plenty of bonking in this film, but it's no porn flick.
During the sex scene their child falls out of the window and the film is basically about the woman's journey into grief, despair and madness after this event.
Her husband tries to help her, and eventually gets her to face her fears by taking her up to a cabin in the woods.
This place is quite disturbing but you do get the impression she is getting better. Then she, well, I'll not do a spoiler but I practically jumped out of my seat shouting "Holy F**K"! There's not much violence in this film but what there is, is shocking stuff.
Despite the name, Antichrist has pretty much nothing to do with religion.
It is strange, disturbing and creepy movie, and yet it's beautifully filmed with the filming itself used to effect in strange ways.
This is not one of these modern thriller type horror films, this is a proper horror film, as in, it is actually horrific.
I throughly recommend it, but not if you are squeamish or easily disturbed!
Whatever you do, don't show it to children, they'll be having nightmares for *years* afterwards.
