Je veux ton amour et je veux ta revanche.

[pellnell]

I know there are people on my f-list who enjoy horror movies, people who love deep movies, and people who love both, so I feel like I have to ask:

Should I watch Lars von Trier's Antichrist?These are the things that concern me

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[pellnell]

Yeah, I get really affected by sexual violence on-screen. It's one of the most shocking forms of violence, I think, and a lot of directors don't know how to handle it. One of my favorite movies is Rob Zombie's Halloween, but I can't watch Michael Myers's escape scene on the DVD because it features such a brutal rape. The rape in Antichrist is perpetrated against a male, and I think people understand less how to handle male sexual assault. Most of the reviews I've read gloss over it.

(Maybe Antichrist would be more tolerable if Tommy Wiseau had written it? Although I've heard there's a lot of psychobabble in the film, and, c'mon, Wilhem Dafoe, you always play psychiatrist with us.)

I agree. It- and Saw- have become the poster children for torture porn, and while I still get queasy during the eye and genital bits, I feel like the films are relatively tame, considering the sort of violence in foreign films like Martyrs and even older Italian movies. I've never heard of that movie, but I think I'll put it on my never-to-watch list. Trash-horror kind of inherently skeeves me out though. Dead Alive, a lot of Troma, and even Zombie Nightmare are sometimes too much for me.