You hear about a movie called AntiChrist, you think evil children, the end of the world and at least one character saying something like: "It's time to fulfill your destiny."
None of that happens here. There was a kid in the movie, and, indeed, he's the reason for much of the bad stuff that happens to our heroes (can we even call them that??) but *spoiler alert* he bites it in the first ten minutes. So at that point, I'm already wondering what gives.
As for the next hour-and-a-half or so? All I can say is lay off the snacks. You're going to be thankful for the empty stomach by the end. And forget about it making much sense at all.
Get ready, because there will be blood. This film includes (going from memory here):
- A partially-birthed dead animal fetus
- A self-disemboweling fox who spouts cryptic phrases
- Scissor-fu involving genital mutilation
- Brick (or wood block?)-fu involving genital mutilation
- Drill-fu involving a character's lower leg
- Gratuitous forest masturbation
- Blood ejaculation
- The "bad naked": male (including many, many slow-motion shots of Willem Dafoe's gyrating backside--fair warning)
- The "bad naked": female
- An inexplicable epilogue that will make you say "WTF"
And, somehow, I can't say I regret watching it. For the most part, it was beautifully shot, superbly acted and, while disturbing as all get-out, somehow poetic. I have no idea what the filmmakers had in mind when they made it, but I'll be wondering about it for a long time. That's more than I can say for most of the films I watch.
On the flipside--for pure, zombie fun, try Dead Snow. It has everything: Nazis, zombies, Nazi- zombies, a snowmobile-mounted machine gun, and one of the coolest battle scenes I can remember watching. Think Braveheart, but much smaller in scale and involving twenty-somethings taking on a Nazi-zombie army in the mountains of Scandinavia. Add a talented cast and a few nice nods to genre staples, and we have ourselves a winner.
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