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Want to see a creepy Lars Von Trier trailer for ANTI-CHRIST? It's great!
Hey folks, Harry here - got an email about 3 minutes ago from Jonas - pointing me at this trailer - which is just fantastic. I'm still not sure what to expect, but that trailer gave me the creeps and reeks of atmosphere and an unsettling feeling of dread. GREAT JOB! Of course - that was probably just Dafoe's fault! Here ya go...
Harry
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Looks Dreadful to View. DTV
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It really does look awful, though.
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There will be some asshole standing directly at the pearly gates yelling "FIRST!!" while pumping his fist. Thanks AICN.
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Somebody bought Lars a TRIPOD! And a STEADYCAM!
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but truth be told, the trailer doesn't really sell it for me. Being that Lars von Trier is involved, I'll definitely see it, but so far it looks like some clever new stuff in the familiar 'cabin in the woods'-template.
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that was pretty crazy. i was way into it.
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curious for sure.
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... thanks a alot for not a goddamn thing. Can I get a link or is this it?
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You can normally count on Lars to turn out an interesting product, and this film may still be a success, but christ, that was one hell of a tepid trailer. The Willem Dafoe monotone VO and standard horror imagery left me wholly underwhelmed. That last shot was pretty good though.
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and one of their rules were no genre movies. I realize Lars doesn't follow Dogme rules anymore, but this looks pretty damn close to a suspense/horror film, but maybe that's just the trailer. Didn't look interesting anyway.
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Besides from The Idiots Lars never really did the whole Dogme95 thing though he is always associated with the movement. And it is borderline criminal that more people have not seen The Five Obstructions. By far the most brilliant project Lars was ever involved with imo.
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Remove any spacesI seem to remember something liken unto this by South Park...Say it isn't the return of the Blood Orgy... only if it isn't with a group of lovable animals.
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I like Von Trier, and Dafoe is always excellent, but I agree this trailer was filled with pretty stereotypical horror/"cabin in the woods" type stuff. Some parts look excellent and it's certainly an intriguing trailer, but certainly underwhelmed... still gonna see it, obviously.
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He's the only director whose films I can adore one day and loathe the next, which says something. Never was a fan of the whole Dogme concept and I'm glad he's back to using all his tools. Breaking the Waves shows that he can do ethereal and otherworldly like no one else, and it looks from this like he's finally quit the Euro-smarm binge he's been on since "The Idiots."
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Looks like a Lars film that will scare the hell out of me rather than bumming me out to the point of wrist slashing. A step in the right direction?
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really well cut trailer.
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I will go and see anything with Charlotte Gainsbourg in it!
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fuck remakes reboots and sequels - more real movies please
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I just want to offer you my congratulations for being first. We were all rooting for you. Some thought you couldn't make it, but I know that I always beleived in you. Good on you, man. You're a hero to us all.
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Is anyone sick of seeing DaFoe's naked ass yet?
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Hit that shit
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scared the bloody piss out of me!
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Damn You Michael Bay
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I admit I have not seen all of his films but the ones I have seen, supposedly his best, have not left me wanting more. Von Trier is an admitted anti-American bigot who makes art for the sake of art. He is the filmmaking equivalent of the guy who spreads shit on canvas and stands back and laughs while everyone stares at his work saying, "Ah...I get it." I will admit to liking The Kingdom but everything else i have seen from him is anti democracy propaganda smothered in elementary level symbolism. While admitting his hatred for America, ars also has stated on record that he will never come here and experience the country for himself BECAUSE of his disdain for it. This makes him no less than an ignorant bigot, firing shots from a safe hidden distance. A coward. While this trailer did peak my interest as all Biblical horror does I will be downloading it illegally and watching it at home. I wouldn't want this son of a bitch to have to be caught in a moral compromise by having to take money from the greedy self indulgent capitalist country that he despises so much.
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I'm intrigued and excited about this film!!
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Looks a bit like a re-working of the Ozploitation flick "Long Weekend"
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humping.
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If there is one actor that is not afraid to show his ass...its DaFoe
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that's great.
Go watch American Idol and let the adults talk. -
You are aware that he made a number of movies which utilized those inventions prior to Dogme 97, right? Hell, one or two are even on Criterion DVD. // BTW, Dance, do you have that rant pre-prepared for all von Trier-related threads?
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You are absolutely correct. I will sit back and watch the no talent warblings of the American Idol teens with the rest of the world so that this talkback will have plenty of room for your adult musings. Let's see what you've added to this forum, I want to know what genius level ideas and thoughts will flow out of me when i grow up like you. Well, the only thing you've added to this adult conversation is that Willem Dafoe is not afraid to show his ass on screen. Wow, a level of maturity I will await with an anticipation that knows no bounds.
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No, first time.
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I'll go back and watch Street Fighter : Legend of Chun Li instead
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Are you watching, M Night?
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. This qualifies as a 'fantastic' trailer?! It's missing The Chin, Raimi and ketchup. Lots of ketchup. A fog machine and cabin just doesn't cut it. Fantastic?! Not really. No.
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http://tinyurl.com/dml2gr
and that's a good thing. -
I love movies like this that make you think.
A brilliant pairing of Dafoe & Gainsbourg too.
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Nothing to worry about. Carry on.
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his presence could make a Pixar movie creepy and unsettling; which is why I'm a bit concerned here, as I did not find this particularly creepy at all.
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But what do I know?
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--Charlotte Gainsbourg - I've been in love with her since she did Jane Eyre with John Hurt. something about her... can't explain it!
--Lars Von Trier.. since I saw Zentropa about 15 years ago, an absolute genius.
--Willem Dafoe just rocks.
--But Anti-Christ?? that's like being the Anti-MickeyMouse, or the Anti-Lochness Monster, or the Anti-Cinderella, or the Anti-FlyingPurplePeopleEater, or the Anti-Matt Damon... you get the point. --are people seriously still scared by Christian nonsense? --ok, sure, a movie called Anti-Christ would be no surprise from the usual Hollywood Jewish conglomerate... but an enlightened European?? WTF! -
Apr 14, 2009 10:46:58 AM CDT
Lars Von Trier makes exploitation B-movies dressed up as "art".
by walterego
The problem is that as exploitation films go, LVT's movies are too depressing and boring to be good-trash, and too contrived in their misantropy to be great art-house films. LVT gets away with being a misantrope because he disguises it as critques of American society/ Western morality (or in Breaking The Waves, Calvinist rural Scotland), which makes it popular with the crowd that enjoys feeling superior to generic American/provincial stereotypes. But LVT's USA trilogy (which turned out to be a two-logy) doesn't truly depict American or rural society, the films are really a parable for human society in general. The locations that LVT sets the movies in are generally places he knows or cares little about, they are just the blank stage upon which the action happens to take place. The amazing thing about each film he makes is that, thanks to his overrated reputation, he attracts such A-list talent to star in the art-house equivalent of I Spit On Your Grave. The saving grace of his films is that the acting is consistently excellent. Which is weird, considering how he has a reputation for alienating his actresses. Nicole Kidman, Bjork, etc have all avoided working with him a second time. Helena Bonham Carter, no prude to nude/sex scenes, was supposed to be in Breaking the Waves. She dropped out when she realized the extent of the gratitous sex scenes, which were apparently toned down in rewrites (the female protagonist originally really enjoyed her sexual encounters, like a penthouse letters character, the script was changed so that she instead endured the sex) and Emily Watson cast. Kidman had to be replaced by Bryce Howard for the Mandingo-esque Manderlay.
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This is similar to a short story I wrote once about how the metally ill could see the evil of the world, while the "normal" people were shielded from it by the glamour of god.
We always hear stories about, crazy mother kills her family to save their mortal souls, or just last week about the mother at the shooting range that shot her son, so he could go to heaven, and then herself, so she would go to hell.
My idea is that the metally ill are cued into the evil that inhabits this coil, while god and his angels remain in heaven and try to hide it from us. Our character decend further into madness and things like....a phone conersation with his wife, turns into a snarling judgmental attach of him while a picture of her on his desk turns into a negitive image of her. In reality, she is asking him to bring home some milk and bread.
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Almost enough to make me want to see this.
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so smooth yet so manly..
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Who wrote this movie? ExxonMobil?!?!
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Looks like yet another confusing movie of self-discovery.
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Do I go around putting Willem Dafoe's ass in your apocalypse?! Do I?!
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but this time Bjork had gone deaf, funny thing is she sings exactly the same.
HOOOMON BeeHAYvraaRRRaaahHRR! -
We stayed at a cabin!!!
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Run!
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Apr 14, 2009 11:55:24 AM CDT
I misread the title of this as "a really crappy trailer..."
by lolthien
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A horror movie that doesn't involve children or teenagers.
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Apr 14, 2009 12:11:26 PM CDT
Yeah a movie that doesn't contain a catatonic child...
by pissed off and bitter
Looks like someone came up with a new idea. Hollywood should be taking notes. Seriously, If there's another horror flick put out by Hollywood that has the creepy kid as the McGuffin then I'm gonna kick the shit outta the filmmakers, seriously.
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a movie about someone who is mentally ill and who may or may not be hallucinating various events, after which she kills Dafoe. It appears to be treading familiar ground.
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Has a real director made a horror film? First Sam Raimi decides to show all the hacks how it's done, and now Lars Von Trier takes a stab at it? And it looks gorgeous! No DV, no shaky-cam. Not that I have anything against the look of some of his earlier films, but it's always awesome to see a filmmaker take a different approach. Wow, I can not wait for this!
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Dogville was crap. This looks like Lars has recaptured his many extreme phobias on film yet again.
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I'm not questioning whether he's made some fine films or not...some of them are quite good while others tend to be overrated. BUT - he does love to attack the 'hypocricies' of American culture but refuses to come to the US to support his films. That's always demonstrated a level of cowardice, to me, that prevents me from spending money to see his films whenever possible. It's a shame...he's a good filmmaker and anti-Americanism is as fair (and ignorant) as any other cultural bias BUT at least have the iron grapes big enough to not hide across the pond while spewing your venom. My 2 cents. Worth a penny.
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Is this based on real life?
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I'm amazed that any elements of the Dogme95 approach to filmmaking are still embraced - Lars himself has already broken virtually EVERY rule he laid out (along with the other Danish director who's name is slipping my mind). He has used music, filmed while not on location, and had simple props in his films. Sure, he hasn't used effects or done 'genre' pieces (or historical pieces per se), but he has openly violated many of the other rules (which they now are calling 'guidelines'...sounds like the 'pirate's law' defense to me).
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..asshole. living dead called you out dead to rights so just deal with it. Dont say something intelligent after the fact and then try to trash him again.
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...surprise. Subtly fuckin creepy. I like it.
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bathe? Because its either that or long shots of people walking.
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...and he knows why.
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thank you.
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I wonder what this monkey killed in this movie for his art? Maybe "anti-Christ" is about himself.
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Apr 14, 2009 1:41:58 PM CDT
Okay, Felix. Damn! Lars must've screw you over big!
by hollywoodhellraiser
You see world these TB are more than a forum for talking shit! There some real crisis shit that goes on here!
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That's what I thought after watching the trailer. "Spooky" fantasy movies like this one are hardly ever scary. Want to see a scary movie? Watch Deliverance or Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer or something.
But, after reading the talkback, I've changed my mind and I want to see it. Mostly because the right-wing nutjobs are going off on the director. I've never seen one of his movies, but now because I know that assholes don't like him, I want to. Even though it still doesn't look that great. -
check it out. Leave comments!
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What's the point Lars?
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is that normally his style? I don't remember dancer in the dark looking this low qual
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If you want to know the truth, I'll give it to you. The answer to your question regarding the maturity of your post is a definitive no. I'll just take a few seconds of your time to explain why. Commas are used in sentences to accentuate and define where a slight pause belongs. Going by that simple rule, here is your statement: "We always hear short stories about, *pause*, crazy mother kills her family to save their mortal souls, *pause*, or just last week about the mother at the shooting range who shot her son, *pause*, so he could go to heaven, *pause*, and then herself, *pause*, so she would go to hell. Now reading this as you wrote it, you have the grammatical skills of a tic on an elephant's ass. Now, I know that this is an internet message board and we all fumble the grammar ball here but FUCK!!! So no, you are no more adult in my book than my six year old son who can construct a more coherent sentence than you. As far as the story that you wrote, I couldn't get past all the words spelled incorrectly to wrap my brain around your idea that we know wouldn't work. Mentally challenged people are often referred to as 'touched by the angels,' and if you had spent any time around any of them you would understand why. For once a stereotypical depiction of a group is true in most cases. Mentally challenged individuals are FOR THE MOST PART the sweetest, happiest, and least judgmental people on earth. You claim they get this way by knowing pure evil? I would like to read it however, so go ahead a put a link up for it, but please, proofread that shit. As for Sector_11374265, I was one of the first people on this board to say something negative about Von Trier; does that make me a right wing nutjob? Am I an asshole for the simple fact that I don't like his work or because I spoke up about not liking it? You judge those who are commenting on comments Von Trier has actually made when you admit to knowing nothing about them. You judge us because we don't like Von Trier's movies, yet, we have actually taken the time to watch them and formulate an opinion on them; something you admit not having done. So basically, you stand on a platform of ignorance and judge those who have valid points and opinions. You label us right wing nut jobs and assholes for saying an anti-American director is anti-American. Well, newsflash, I am not a right wing nutjob and anyone who would create an opinion of someone's entire spectrum of political views and beliefs based on an opinion of a movie director is a complete idiot. I think it has become clear to everyone on this board who the adults are here.
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Ummm.
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OWNED
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Self Pwnage
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Seriously man, nobody wants to see the Dafoe's butt. Less is more, people.
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Why do people say "first" and why does AICN leave the messages as to encourage more of that nonsense?
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Apr 14, 2009 4:10:58 PM CDT
Woooah, that looks intense. Anyone hating is a fat stupid fuck.
by dr sauch
Looks insane, can't wait.
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and how much of a "retread" it is. Perhaps they're not giving you the whole plot in a two minute preview, you retarded fucking whales. Maybe there's something going on in the remaining hour and fifty eight minutes that you haven't seen. How can you morons say that this won't be good based on a fucking trailer? My god, I wish Harry would shut these TB's down.
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I guess he gave in looking at the outdoor sex. So Dafoe has come full circle huh.
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...from one dr to another, i recommend smoking one big fat joint and you shall be cured.
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...is a favorite Dafoe character of mine. The V.O. kind of evokes Letour's deep, intense "Where am I going" emotional state and feeling.When done well, that's always a good jumping off point.
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but I'll take their greenbacks.
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Willem Dafoe is so sexy with his central nervous system poking through his back when he's getting laid.
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...that Willem Dafoe is game for absolutely anything onscreen? Not that he hasn't proved that already!Loved this trailer. I'm hot & cold on von Trier (loved "Dancer in the Dark," could get thru life without ever seeing "Dogville" or "Manderlay" again), but this looks really atmospheric & creepy in the satisfyingly old school manner. And sure, he kind of did this already in "Shadow of the Vampire," but how I'd love to see Dafoe play Klaus Kinski in a movie about the making of "Aguirre, The Wrath of God." Guess he (and Malkovich, who would probably make as fine a Herzog as he did a Murnau!) is a little too old for it now.
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Cause it looks like shit
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about how this movie was "So Von Trier" that it was instantly Von Trier while being so obviously post-Von-Trier? And the movie just screamed Von Trier from the first Von Trier? That was a great review.
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Still a classic. And Dogville was an exceptional fusion of the dyseptic views on human nature expressed in "Our Town", "Lord of the Flies" and that "Twilight Zone" chestnut "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street". The film is even made better by John Hurt's droll voice over, which recalls both the exploits of "Candide" and "Barry Lyndon". And ScottinDC, your usage of the word "coward" not only makes you sound like Bill O'Reilly, or any number of right-wing asshats, it also makes you sound like their parrots. Now one could say that, in print, my political views would possibly resemble DNC talking points, but you don't see me spouting other people's rhetoric verbatim. That's just lame.
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What is this story? It's not a rumor. It's not really news. It's PR for Lars Von Trier. Remember when AICN would leak trailers before the studio wanted you to see them? That doesn't happen anymore because Harry is in the studios' pockets. I'll bet Lars Von Trier's publicist gave AICN the go-ahead to publish this story. This story is just a commercial for this movie, a roundabout way to watch the trailer when you could just go to apple movie trailers instead. AICN used to print rumors like perezhilton.com, but now all of the articles on this site are carefully constructed PR stories that are meant to manipulate you into thinking some movie is "cool". Don't read this site anymore. Have you noticed that Variety is more comprehensive with their industry news than AICN? That's pretty sad. Nowadays, AICN is used to hock soundtracks. I'll bet some media corporation like Time Warner bought this site and didn't tell you about it. This site is like Entertainment Tonight.
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Could be a classic.
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I am a "right wing nutjob" as alleged by several in TB. Didn't start out that way, though. It was a slow evolution over time once I started to realize that any time I challenged popular opinion I was insta-labeled; the first and last resort of an intellectually bankrupt liberal. Type any three words together that goes against the groupthink and suddenly you're a rascist, homophobic, wealth-hoarding bigot. Thanks for keeping faith in America, though!
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I instantly know I'm listening to a "left-wing nutjob" merely parroting someone else's talking points because they're incapable of thinking for themselves. I mean, they ALL use the same term, like Rahm Emmanuel sends them a weekly memo...
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So now the word "coward" cannot be subjectively applied by an individual towards another person that they, in their own personal opinion, finds... uhm... cowardly? ...without being maligned as an O'Reilly zombie (or any number of right-wing asshats)?One day -- hopefully, for you, soon -- you'll realize O'Reilly for what he is, a populist. Remember, this was a guy that went to bat for Dan Rather in 2004. He's pro-amnesty, pro-global cooling/warming and pro-bailout. If anything, the guy is a moderate that says whatever it takes to appeal to most and maximize his audience share in the bargain.O'Reilly a right-wing asshat? Really? Think the same of McCain? Or those fellow asshats of his, Snowe, Collins and Specter? Sun Tzsu once wrote, "Know your enemy."Lookit, I know nothing of this Lars Von Trier fuck and I'm glad not to. However, if this is a man that publicly gripes about my country while growing fat off of the riches it provides him, and he simultaneously bears the temerity to do so from the safety of foreign shores, then fuck him regardless of any political affiliation. Why can't he get the Van Gogh treatment given his doubtless opinion of the savages we are?
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Rachel Maddow?? Chris Matthews??? Because they're obviously getting this drivel from the same unimaginative source.
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Shocking! And why are you morons talking politics on here? Go to a political blog.
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I bet you always blame the fourth stage for losing a relay race.
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well said my friend.
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Looks pretty F'ing good. Can't wait.
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From the official blog of the production of THE EXPENDABLES: so today I heard Sly say, in an understated way, he was about to do the stunt of his life. Hmmm…sounded pretty cool. I’ve seen some pretty big action dudes do some pretty tricky stunts (no disrespect to the incredible guys who risk life and limb by doing dangerous stunts for a living) so it takes a lot to impress me. well today you can color me impressed…a lot…for real…by Sly. The freakin guy is fearless and pretty much ageless. No matter how I describe what I watched him do - 6 times - it won’t even be close to conveying what it was - a classic old school mano a mano takedown. Keep in mind there were no mats on the ground and Sly was basically bareback - no pads except for on his knees - as he dove, rolled, flipped, growled and punched his way through the scene ending with him breaking a neck. Oh and did I mention the sweltering heat and the hard dusty ground he kept slamming his body into? Sly was bleeding and bruised but after watching the last take he turned around and said “that’s how you teach the children.” Then he set up the next shot while the medics tried to stop the bleeding and clean the dirt and stones out of his arm. I LOVE ACTION MOVIES!!!!
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Yes. Everyone who *isn't* a right-wing asshat thinks so.
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I would like to compose a grand arch of point counter-point to talk to you. But I think it is just best to tell you to go fuck your mother.
If you people have not put it together yet...I AM an asshole.
How was my grammer, spelling and comma placement in that posting asshat?
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sorry...but that's just funny.
but so is the highly underused "asshat"
Ok people, so who's better?
Haneke or Von Trier?
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I'm interested
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You should have put a comma after the word spelling actually. You have proven yourself again to be the adult in the room by telling me to go fuck my mother. Your intelligence is as intimidating as your literacy and we are all truly blessed to witness both.
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...Or at least a chick who looks like her.
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And horses, and horses, and horses
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At around 1:33 burned into the floor? The devil is a small child with charcoal piggers. Don't know who this Lars is, don't really care, but the dialogue is terrible, just terrible. And for the record, hell for me is an eternity watching DeFoe's pastey ass undulating atop a homely, bad actress, so maybe this guy does tap into something. I'm already filled with revulsion and disgust.
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Seriously. And now - let the Trier-bashing begin.
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...based on that trailer because it sucked and ergo so must he since he is responsible for it.
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do you remember the fantastic trailers for Matrix Reloaded and Episode I? The people responsible must be AWESOME directors. Ahem.
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..i hated everything past the first matrix and never in my most deluded moments would EVER suggest George Lucas as the best director working today. You probably shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but this trailer is awful and while it may merely be a bad example of a good product nothing, and I mean NOTHING, is gonna rescue that awful, contrived dailogue.
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That looks like fun on a bun.
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It seems you were mistaken malificus, stolentroll had very relevant examples. When he said "AWESOME", he was being sarcastic...
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Apr 15, 2009 10:44:21 PM CDT
Wow, isn't it a little early for a movie about Obama?
by cotton mcknight
Har dee har har. I'm going to pretend that I am the first one to come up with that joke.
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..is that I never looked forward to those movies based on those trailers.I got the sarcasm....BIG sarcasm guy.
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Sweet. Need a good horror movie these days. Since we can all guess that Drag Me to Hell isn't going to be as good as everyone's been shitting their pants about.
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...and that's all there is to it. :}
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...and that's all there is to it. :}
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