Finally. You probably could have guessed, this one was coming in the fall, but IFC have officially set Lars Von Trier’s Cannes-scandalizing “Antichrist” for an October 23rd limited release in L.A. and N.Y., just one week before Halloween.
We suppose they’re probably trying to leverage the horror angle there, which is probably not a bad idea. We still think this means “Antichrist” will appear at the Toronto International Film Festival (early September) and the New York Film Festival (late September), to build the buzz for North American audiences who might not have paid attention to the European outrage at Cannes (how you woulda missed that though…)
The film will also hit Video-On-Demand on October 21. “Antichrist” is a supernatural, erotic and brutalizing psychological horror film that stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a married couple that lose a child and retreat to a cabin in the woods to heal their psychic wounds, but soon find an inhospitable forest around them that doesn’t quite take to their presence. Loony shit ensues. The report doesn’t specify, but presumably this New York, L.A. run will be the reported limited-run full-on director’s cut, and anything that comes after (especially On-Demand), will be a safer, non-penis mutilating edition. The film is being released in the U.K. unedited for its entire run. [Variety]