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'''''Antichrist''''' is a 2009 [[Horror]] film written and directed by [[Lars von Trier]]. Imagine what a film co-directed by the [[Stanley Kubrick]] who made ''[[The Shining]]'', the [[David Lynch]] who made ''[[Eraserhead]]'' and the [[Andrei Tarkovsky]] who made ''[[Stalker]]'' could look like, and you're getting close to the idea.▼
▲{{quote| ''Chaos...reigns.''}}
The movie started a heated controversy during the 2009 [[Cannes Film Festival]], some critics praising it as a master work of art, some others decrying the very explicit sexual and violent content, or even accusing the film of being strongly misogynistic.▼
▲''Antichrist'' is a 2009 [[Horror]] film written and directed by [[Lars von Trier]]. Imagine what a film co-directed by the [[Stanley Kubrick]] who made ''[[The Shining]]'', the [[David Lynch]] who made ''[[Eraserhead]]'' and the [[Andrei Tarkovsky]] who made ''[[Stalker]]'' could look like, and you're getting close to the idea.
▲The movie started a heated controversy during the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, some critics praising it as a master work of art, some others decrying the very explicit sexual and violent content, or even accusing the film of being strongly misogynistic.
For the similarly-named trope, see [[The Antichrist]].
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* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Many times by She, {{spoiler|then used as torture on her husband He.}}▼
* [[Agony of the Feet]]: While alone with Nick, She used to switch his shoes. This caused small deformations in his feet. {{spoiler|Her husband He didn't know that.}}
* [[Ax Crazy]]: If She doesn't fit this trope as well as [[The Shining|Jack Torrance,]] then who can?
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* [[Camera Tricks]]
* [[Crapsack World]]: Even the acorns are miserable. And possibly vicious.
▲* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Many times by She, {{spoiler|then used as torture on her husband He.}}
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: The opening and closing sequences.
* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]
* [[Drone of Dread]]: the entire
* [[Euroshlock]]
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]
* [[The Faceless]]: Apart from the two main protagonists, the few supporting cast members appearing have their faces deliberately blurred.
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: Many critics try really hard to read into the Christian symbols disseminated throughout the movie. This was arguably intentional on Trier's part, a way of [[Deconstructed Trope|peeling back the absurdity of finding meaning in a meaningless universe]].
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* [[Female Misogynist]]: She believes that women are evil and were tortured and killed in history because they were evil.
* [[Gainax Ending]]: {{spoiler|After killing She}}, He goes away, and then he sees a multitude of faceless women going past him and towards Eden. What?
* [[Genre Shift]]: Starts as a [[Psychological Thriller]], then progressively shifts to [[Psychological Horror]].
* [[Groin Attack]]: And ''how''. In both the male and female equivalent, {{spoiler|and respectively inflicted and self-inflicted.}}
* [[Humans Are
* [[Intimate Psychotherapy]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] hard.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Well, it's what they promised.
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