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* AgonyOfTheFeet: [[spoiler:While alone with Nic, She used to switch his shoes. This caused small deformations in his feet.]]
%%* AnimalisticAbomination: The Three Beggars. [[MindScrew Maybe]].

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: [[spoiler:While alone with Nic, She used to switch his shoes. This shoes, which caused small deformations in his feet.]]
%%* * AnimalisticAbomination: The [[spoiler:The Three Beggars. Beggars, Grief, Pain and Despair, are represented as a doe, a fox, and a crow respectively. [[MindScrew Maybe]].Maybe]]]].



* HumansAreBastards: Then again, so is nature, apparently.

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* %%* HumansAreBastards: Then again, so is nature, apparently.



* MinimalistCast: Aside from some people at the funeral, the only characters for the majority of the film are He and She.

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* MinimalistCast: Aside from some people at the funeral, funeral [[spoiler:and the horde of women at the end]], the only characters for the majority of the film are He and She.



* RoomFullOfCrazy: {{Double subverted}}. The crazy was originally regular research material for a dissertation about misogyny, but then [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She really began to believe that women are inherently evil.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:She completely loses it after being confronted with the 'reversed shoes' incident.]]

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* RoomFullOfCrazy: {{Double subverted}}.subverted}} regarding the attic where She did her thesis studies. The crazy was originally regular research material for a dissertation about misogyny, but then [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She really began to believe that women are inherently evil.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:She completely loses it after being confronted with She was already going cuckoo due to the 'reversed shoes' incident.]]guilt brought on by Nic's death. [[spoiler:Then He discovers that She was putting Nic's shoes on the wrong feet, causing minor deformations, which is when She ''really'' goes off the deep end]].



* {{Yandere}}: She, [[spoiler:especially near the end.]]

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* {{Yandere}}: She, [[spoiler:especially She. [[spoiler:Especially near the end.]]
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The film was the first of Von Trier's "depression" trilogy, followed by ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' and ''Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}''.

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The film was the first of Von Trier's "depression" trilogy, "Depression Trilogy", followed by ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' and ''Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}''.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: The Three Beggars. [[MindScrew Maybe]].

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* %%* AnimalisticAbomination: The Three Beggars. [[MindScrew Maybe]].



* CrapsackWorld: [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Even the acorns are miserable.]] And possibly vicious.
* DarkerAndEdgier: As ''Film/TrashHumpers'' (which came out in the same year, oddly enough) was for Creator/HarmonyKorine is ''Antichrist'' for Lars Von Trier; a new dark-and-edgy low in an oeuvre already known for its morbidity. It set the tone for ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' and ''Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}'' after it.

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* %%* CrapsackWorld: [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Even the acorns are miserable.]] And possibly vicious.
* DarkerAndEdgier: As ''Film/TrashHumpers'' (which came out in the same year, oddly coincidentally enough) was for Creator/HarmonyKorine is ''Antichrist'' for Lars Von Trier; a new dark-and-edgy low in an oeuvre already known for its morbidity. It set the tone for ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' and ''Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}'' after it.



* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Even the acorns.

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* %%* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Even the acorns.



* LeFilmArtistique: According to the film's detractors.

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* %%* LeFilmArtistique: According to the film's detractors.



* ParentalNeglect: She accuses He of this. She is crazy. But She's possibly right.

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* %%* ParentalNeglect: She accuses He of this. She is crazy. But She's possibly right.



* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: {{Lampshade|hanging}}d and heavily {{played with}}.

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* %%* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: {{Lampshade|hanging}}d and heavily {{played with}}.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Many times by She, [[spoiler:then used as torture on He.]]
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* ShowerOfLove: She and He are obliviously having quite explicit sex in the shower during the film's opening scene, even as their unsupervised young son accidentally falls to his death.
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:After killing She and burning her corpse, He goes away, and then he sees a multitude of faceless women going past him and towards Eden.]]

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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:After killing She and burning her corpse, He goes manages to walk away, and then he sees a multitude of faceless women going women, likely spirits, who walk towards and past him and towards Eden.while he looks on in awe.]]
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Imagine what a film co-directed by the Creator/StanleyKubrick who made ''Film/TheShining'', the Creator/DavidLynch who made ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' and the Creator/AndreiTarkovsky who made ''Film/{{Stalker}}'' could look like, and you're getting close to the idea of what ''Antichrist'' is.

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Imagine what a film co-directed by the Creator/StanleyKubrick who made ''Film/TheShining'', the Creator/DavidLynch who made ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' and the Creator/AndreiTarkovsky who made ''Film/{{Stalker}}'' ''Film/Stalker1979'' could look like, and you're getting close to the idea of what ''Antichrist'' is.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The wrench under the porch.]] [[spoiler: The hole in the ground by the tree.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The wrench under the porch.]] [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The hole in the ground by the tree.]]



* IntimatePsychotherapy: {{Subverted}}, she tries using sex to dull her depression, but this does more harm than good.

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* IntimatePsychotherapy: {{Subverted}}, {{Subverted|trope}}, she tries using sex to dull her depression, but this does more harm than good.



* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: She completely loses it after being confronted with the 'reversed shoes' incident.]]

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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: She [[spoiler:She completely loses it after being confronted with the 'reversed shoes' incident.]]



* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: {{Lampshaded}} and heavily {{played with}}.
* {{Yandere}}: She, [[spoiler: especially near the end.]]

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* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: {{Lampshaded}} {{Lampshade|hanging}}d and heavily {{played with}}.
* {{Yandere}}: She, [[spoiler: especially [[spoiler:especially near the end.]]
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* TheLostWoods: The forest Eden is located in is desolate and empty, mainly inhabited by wildlife. [[spoiler: There is a good reason for this.]]
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* IntimatePsychotherapy: {{Subverted}} hard; She tries using sex to dull her depression, but this does more harm than good.

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* IntimatePsychotherapy: {{Subverted}} hard; She {{Subverted}}, she tries using sex to dull her depression, but this does more harm than good.
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Dewicked trope


* AdultFear: It is expressed when She hears her son's cries, but is unable to find him for a time. It makes it ''worse'' when she does find Nic, only to find him ''not crying'', so it just leaves She disturbed and obviously confused as to ''who'' is crying.
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* IntimatePsychotherapy: {{Subverted}}.

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* IntimatePsychotherapy: {{Subverted}}.{{Subverted}} hard; She tries using sex to dull her depression, but this does more harm than good.
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* SlowMotionFall: Nic falls to its death in slow motion in the opening scene.

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* SlowMotionFall: Nic falls to its his death in slow motion in the opening scene.
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* FoulFox: The protagonist comes across a fox eating its own insides. The fox snarls at him, then speaks with a deep human voice: "Chaos reigns."

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''Antichrist'' is a 2009 {{horror}} film written and directed by Creator/LarsVonTrier.

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''Antichrist'' is a 2009 {{horror}} {{psychological horror}} art film written and directed by Creator/LarsVonTrier.



* JumpScare: He approaches a fox hidden in a field, and as he reaches out to touch it, it jumps up at him with a dissonant ScareChord.

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* JumpScare: At one point, He approaches a fox hidden in a field, and as he reaches out to touch it, it jumps up at him with a dissonant ScareChord.



* PrimalScene: {{Inverted}}. Nic didn't see his parents having sex, but She saw him [[spoiler:jumping from the window]].
** It may be an [[spoiler: intrusive false thought on her part, as a result of guilt]]. The film is highly ambiguous about this.
* ReligiousHorror: {{Deconstructed}}.

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* PrimalScene: {{Inverted}}. It's shown that Nic didn't see his parents having sex, but She saw him [[spoiler:jumping from the window]].
** It
window]], but this may be an [[spoiler: [[spoiler:an intrusive false thought on her part, as a result of guilt]]. The film is highly ambiguous about this.
* %%* ReligiousHorror: {{Deconstructed}}.



* SlowMotionFall: The child in the opening scene is falling to its death in slow motion.

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* SlowMotionFall: The child in the opening scene is falling Nic falls to its death in slow motion.motion in the opening scene.



* SoundtrackDissonance: The prologue combines the beautiful aria "Lascia ch'io pianga" with the image of [[spoiler:Nic falling to his death]].

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* SoundtrackDissonance: The prologue combines the beautiful aria "Lascia ch'io pianga" with the image images of He and She ''graphically'' having sex as well as [[spoiler:Nic falling to his death]].



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