MOVIEmeter
Top 5000
Down 63 this week

Antichrist (2009)

 -  Drama | Horror  -  20 May 2009 (Denmark)
6.5
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 6.5/10 from 51,822 users   Metascore: 49/100
Reviews: 381 user | 338 critic | 34 from Metacritic.com

A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Director:

Writer:

Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 2364 titles created 4 months ago
 
a list of 702 titles created 03 May 2011
 
a list of 10000 titles created 2 months ago
 
a list of 1177 titles created 4 weeks ago
 
a list of 26 titles created 2 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Antichrist (2009)

Antichrist (2009) on IMDb 6.5/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Antichrist.
19 wins & 15 nominations. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Manderlay (2005)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

A story of slavery, set in the 1930s American South.

Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover
Boogie Nights (1997)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Luis Guzmán, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore
Fish Tank (2009)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
A Single Man (2009)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  

An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.

Director: Tom Ford
Stars: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
A Serious Man (2009)
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X  

A black comedy drama centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking for meaning and answers he seems to stay stalled.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Stars: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Director: Charlie Kaufman
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams
Biutiful (2010)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  

This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X  

On an isolated lake, an old monk lives on a small floating temple. The wise master has also a young boy with him who learns to become a monk. And we watch as seasons and years pass by.

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim, Young-min Kim
Persona (1966)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  

A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook
Magnolia (1999)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X  

An epic mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Shame (2011)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

In New York City, Brandon's carefully cultivated private life -- which allows him to indulge his sexual addiction -- is disrupted when his sister arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay.

Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Lucy Walters, James Badge Dale
Talk to Her (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X  

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling
Edit

Cast

Complete credited cast:
...
He
...
She
Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm ...
Nic
Edit

Storyline

A couple lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within. Written by Peter Brandt Nielsen

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Taglines:

When nature turns evil, true terror awaits. (UK)

Genres:

Drama | Horror

Certificate:

Not Rated | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Official Sites:

|

Country:

| | | | |

Language:

Release Date:

20 May 2009 (Denmark)  »

Also Known As:

Anticristo  »

Box Office

Budget:

$11,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$71,397 (USA) (23 October 2009)

Gross:

$397,070 (USA) (11 December 2009)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

| (some scenes)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

When the filming started, Lars von Trier had just left a mental hospital where he stayed for two months, receiving treatment for depression. He had not completely recovered at the time and was even unable to operate the camera as he usually does, which made him very frustrated. He repeatedly excused himself to the actors for being in the mental condition he was, but, according to him, the actors supported him and throughout production, he did not experience any grave problems, except for his own condition. See more »

Goofs

In the prologue as the child is falling, the teddy bear disappears from the side shot as the child is approaching the ground. See more »

Quotes

He: What do you think is supposed to happen in the woods?
See more »

Connections

Referenced in The Sound and Music of Antichrist (2009) See more »

Soundtracks

"'Lascia ch'io pianga' from 'Rinaldo'"
Composed by George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Händel)
Performed by Karina Gauvin and Tempo Rubato
Conducted by Alexander Weimann
Courtesy of ATMA Classique
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

See more (Spoiler Alert!) »

User Reviews

 
Unforgettable
31 March 2010 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

Within a complex tapestry of theology and symbolism Lars Von Trier's Antichrist plums the depths of the human condition taking cinema to places it has never gone nor ever wanted to go before. Following the establishing tragic accident (their son falls out of a window while they make love) He and She journey out to Eden, a remote lodge in the woods, for therapy where their lives and souls are changed forever. Far from a traditional horror film LVT gives us the darkest of psychological works that starts with shock before travelling down the spiral through grief, despair and panic ending in travesty. Gainsbourg and Defoe take us there, they carry the film on their monumental performances - Gainsbourg gives everything physically and emotionally to her role, while Defoe's character's grip on intellectualism is unrelenting. With death and depression permeating every frame of the film it has to be said that much of what is seen is stunningly beautiful - i really cant overstate the quality of the cinematography; at the same time the hauntingly evocative sound design adds that much needed 3rd dimension of pure evil that finishes off the work perfectly. It says and shows many disgusting things about humanity, but does so with such purity of vision, such artistic conviction that i found it totally irresistible. Not a film i'd want to see again in a hurry but certainly one i'm thankful i've experienced - it pushes the envelope in hitherto unforeseen ways that will probably affect film as a medium for years to come. If nothing else, i hope it helped LVT's recovery.


47 of 69 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
DO NOT WATCH!!! mikedunlap45
Misogyny + t JackBluegrass
Who is the antichrist? guilherme-alfieri
Really want to watch this... but equally afraid. nikolas-28
Absolutely ridiculous. malintkan
THE SHOES?????? devlin-22
Discuss Antichrist (2009) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page