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[[caption-width-right:350:[-"[[AxCrazy You're leaving me!]]"-] ]]

->''Chaos... reigns.''

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

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 TheAntichrist.

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!!Provides Examples Of:

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Many times by She, [[spoiler:then used as torture on He.]]
* AgonyOfTheFeet: [[spoiler:While alone with Nick, She used to switch his shoes. This caused small deformations in his feet.]]
* AxCrazy: If She doesn't fit this trope as well as [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance,]] then who can?
* BodyHorror
* BookEnds: Both the prologue and the conclusion are in black and white with no sound except for Händel's "Liascia ch'io pianga"
* CameraTricks
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The wrench under the porch.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Even the acorns are miserable. And possibly vicious.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The opening and closing sequences.
* DontGoInTheWoods
* DroneOfDread: the entire soundtrack -- minus Händel's "Liascia ch'io pianga" in the prologue and conclusion.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou
* TheFaceless: Apart from the two main protagonists, the few supporting cast members appearing have their faces deliberately blurred.
* FanDisservice
* FemaleMisogynist: She believes that women are evil and were tortured and killed in history because they were evil.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:After killing She]], He goes away, and then he sees a multitude of faceless women going past him and towards Eden. What?
* GenreShift: Starts as a PsychologicalThriller, then progressively shifts to PsychologicalHorror.
* {{Gorn}}: A bit over-emphasized by the critics, there are actually only ''two short'' gore scenes, toward the end of the movie. That said, these two scenes are really, ''really'', '''[[BodyHorror really]]''' horrible.
* GroinAttack: And ''how''. In both the male and female equivalent, [[spoiler:and respectively inflicted and self-inflicted.]]
* HumansKillWantonly: Then again, so is nature, apparently.
* InfantImmortality: Averted from the get-go. The death of the pair's young son is what begins the film.
* IntimatePsychotherapy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]].
* IfICantHaveYou: She panics when she thinks He is leaving her. [[spoiler: It gets very messy.]]
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The movie is dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky for a reason.
* LeFilmArtistique: According to the film's detractors.
* TheLostWoods
* MindScrew
* MinimalistCast
* NoNameGiven: The main protagonists are never named, not even in the end credits, where they are just designated as "He" and "She". The only character named is their son Nick.
* NothingIsScarier
* ParentalNeglect: She accuses He of this. She is crazy. But She's possibly right.
* PrimalScene: Inverted. Nick didn't see his parents having sex, but She saw him [[spoiler:jumping from the window]].
* PsychologicalHorror
* ReligiousHorror: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]].
* 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: She completely loses it, after being confronted with the 'reversed shoes' incident.
* SurrealHorror
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted in that He is a therapist. Things get out of hand anyway.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and heavily played with.
* WorldOfSymbolism
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