Antichrist
Antichrist ironically stars Willem Dafoe who once took on the controversial portrayal of the messiah in "The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ”. The religious right can relax about this one which doesn’t contain anything that can be misconstrued as blasphemy. Defoe plays opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg as a married couple that remain nameless. “He” is a therapist and “She” is an anthropologist. She is emotionally shattered after the death or their infant son and her husband, being unsatisfied with the psychological help she is getting decides to do the job himself. They come to the conclusion that the most therapeutic place to heal is their cabin in the woods where she regularly holes up to research on medieval persecution of women. Rather than being unctuous, Mother Nature seems to conspire to make things exceptionally gruesome. Kudos to the producers for trying to make a thinking person’s horror film but this one makes you ponder too much while you’re squirming. Antichrist is a movie with a message but I’ll be damned if I can figure it out.