Antichrist Settles on Pre-Halloween U.S. Release Date

It took about five minutes for Antichrist to become the most notorious movie at Cannes this year, and its American distributor, IFC, has no plans to let you forget it. Lars von Trier’s sicko epic of parental grief and genital mutilation will open on demand Oct. 21 and in limited theaters Oct. 23, less than six months after its premiere.

Many Cannes titles take much longer than that to open in American theaters, if they even reach them at all. But as the late-October date suggests, IFC plans to market Antichrist as a horror movie, a classification few seem willing to dispute even if that’s not strictly the case. It's not clear yet if the film will be released unedited (or uncensored, if you prefer).

The movie, about a couple who loses a child and the aberrant process of grief that follows, has already motivated some of the more inspired film writing this year.

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By Adrian on July 22, 2009

Antichrist is brilliant yet a bit bewildering, and certainly not for someone who's not used to a Lars von Trier film! It's really shocking and genuinely made me unsure about whether it goes to far. But I think it's really incredibly well made, and worth seeing (if you have the stomach). Willem Dafoe explains the whole thing very well in this interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQu8s1Uoz2k