Antichrist Picks Up Willem Dafoe

By Ed Perkis: 2008-08-13 14:38:03

It’s a long way from talking about making a film to actually casting the thing. For example, David O. Selznick started planning Gone with the Wind in like 1877, but it didn’t reach the silver screen until 1939. It really doesn’t make it seem so long, then, that we reported on Lars von Trier’s planned horror film, Antichrist, back in 2006 and we are just now finding out about the casting and a start date.

According to Variety, Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg have signed-on to the English language movie, to begin filming in Germany this month. The movie is described as “a psychological thriller that evolves into a horror film.” I’m not sure how that’s different than a plain old horror film, but Willem Dafoe is a scary looking guy, so maybe that’s where the horror comes in.

The script, written by von Trier and Anders Thomas Jensen, follows a couple, played by Dafoe and Gainsbourg, who head to an isolated cabin after their son dies. Of course, they will find no peace at the cabin as sinister forces begin to work. I’m not planning on catching this one. As great as Dafoe is, I was fooled into watching von Trier’s Dogville and I don’t think I want to sit through something like that again.

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Daniel
August 14, 2008 at 15:38

von trier is one of the most important and unique directors of our generation.
i cant believe that someone who writes articles on a cinema-themed website would say how they were ''fooled'' in watching dogville.
you might not have liked that film but considering lvt's originality and his constent change in style and subject, i find it really disappointing that a cinephile (i'm assuming...) would stop watching all lvt's work based on one of his movies.

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Dalton
August 13, 2008 at 23:31

You're right, I haven't seen anything by Lars von Trier although I have (sparsely) heard of him.

Sometimes its generally good, like taking the foundation of a plot and turning it into something fresh, but sometimes (how it sounds here) it could be the same way Eragon riffed on Lord of the Rings: An unoriginal mishmash of other people's ideas.

Hopefully I am wrong and this turns out to be a very good horror/thriller (or whatever the hell its supposed to be).

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jasper
August 13, 2008 at 21:49

lars von trier is a masterful director.

if you think this will be a 'riff on evil dead' [i think you simply mean 'rip-off' because riffs are generally GOOD] then you probably have no familiarity with lvt's work. he's one of the most original filmmakers working today.

also, while i love the evil dead movies, i'd expect anything other than a rehash of gory thrills in 'antichrist' and look forward to whatever departure trier has in store

in a way, all of his films [at least the ones i've seen] represent some kind of horror or another, natural or otherwise. in yet another sense, he's one of the few filmmakers presenting genuinely horrifying stories.

to give a more popular, contemporary example his style of 'horror' i'd offer there will be blood.

still, i could be totally wrong and this may indeed turn out to be typical splatterhouse gruesome spectacular. that just seems dubious to me

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Dalton
August 13, 2008 at 18:58

Not to mention that the "evil-forces-attack-unsuspecting-people-in-an-isolated-cabin" plot is a total riff on Evil Dead.

One more reason to skip out on this one, no matter how awesome Dafoe is.

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