ANTICHRIST

Antichrist is a 2009 horror picture written and directed by Lars von Trier, about a pair who, after the death of their son, retreat to a cottage in the woods where they encounter weird and frightening occurrences. The film stars only two actors, Charlotte Gainsbourg (She)and Willem Dafoe(He). Antichrist is made up of a Introduction, four chapters (entitled "Grief", "Pain (Chaos Reigns)", "Despair (Gynocide)" and "The Three Beggars"), and an Epilogue.

He and She) {make have sex, while their child Nic climbs to the window of their house and falls to his death on the snowy land.

Chapter One: Grief
After a month's hospitalization, She accuses her spouse of apathy over the son's demise, but goes to take blame for it herself. He coolly and sensibly guides her through this course. Through their sessions, He understands that her greatest fear revolves on a cottage in woods called Eden, at which she spent time alone with Nic the previous summer, while writing a thesis on gynocide. The couple travel to Eden. During the trip, He comes across a deer which does not show fear of him. As the deer turns to go, He sees that it is mid-stillbirth, the dead fawn hanging lifelessly from its rear.

Chapter Two: Pain (Chaos Reigns)
When at the cabin, She attempts to make love to her spouse. He tries to solve her fears with psychiatric therapy, in spite of their relationship creating a conflict of interest. She becomes increasingly mad and grief-stricken. He comes across a self-disemboweling fox which seems to utter the words, "Chaos reigns". He begins to understand his wife's fear of nature: that the nihilism seen in nature is just as present in humanity.

Chapter Three: Despair (Gynocide)
While searching the log cabin, He finds materials studied by his wife for her thesis: pictures of witch-hunts and a scrapbook filled with articles and notes on misogynist topics, in which her handwriting becomes more indecipherable as the pages go on. She, due to intense self-guilt over Nic's demise, comes to embrace the belief that women are naturally evil. He confronts her with Nic's autopsy report, which states that the bones in both of his feet were indistinct. In a tool shed, He finds photographs of Nic, in which his boots are regularly on the wrong feet. She attacks her husband mid-coitus in the shed, crushing his genitals with a block of wood. While he is unconscious, She masturbates him until he orgasms, ejaculating blood onto her shirt and face. She then drills a hole through his calf, and bolts a heavy millstone to his leg. She flees outside leaving him unconscious in the shed, throwing the tool, She used to tighten the millstone under the small house.
He wakes up and drags himself away, finding a foxhole in which to hide. While She hysterically searches for him, He finds a crow buried alive, which makes noise upon waking, giving away his hiding place. He beats it repeatedly but it survives. She finds him and tries burying him alive, but digs him up several hours afterwards.

Chapter Four: The Three Beggars
During a conflict in the house, She performs a clitoridectomy upon herself, and curls up on the floor in unbearable pain.
During the night the couple are visited by "the 3 Beggars" (a deer who represents grief, a fox who represents pain and a crow who represents despair) and acorns again beat against the roof of the cottage. Hearing the crow beneath the floor board he breaks through the through the floor of the shed, finding the tool with which to release the millstone from his leg, and then strangles his wife, murdering her. He burns the body outside the log cabin on a pyre, which was shown upon his arrival at the small house.

Epilogue
He makes his way from the small house, and eats the berries from the ground. Upon reaching the top of a hill, he turns around and sees "the 3 Beggars" (deer, fox and crow) behind him slowly fading away until completely gone. He looks down to see hundreds of women rushing up the hill towards him, their faces white and blurred.

It was released on 20 May 2009 in Denmark and will release on 23 October 2009 in USA. It is like Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski) and Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg). As of 28 July 2009 (2009 -07-28) the movie had a 56% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5 out of 10. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for open.