The trailer for Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist” has stumbled online and is armed to surely creep and disturb. The video, which is being hosted on a Vimeo account of a Von Trier production company, comes with the following synopsis: “A grieving couple retreat to ‘Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse…”
Previously, the film was said to chronicle a therapist’s (Willem Dafoe) attempts to treat his wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) after the loss of their own child by retreating into the woods, where they learn that their child might be tangentially related to the coming of the Antichrist. It is also set to explore the idea that Satan was in fact the world’s creator, not God.
Other than Dafoe and Gainsbourg (who was actually originally set to play Kate Connor in “Terminator Salvation”), the cast of ‘Antichrist’ is set to be limited to mainly just animals. A press release for the film read: “After a long exhausting training camp in the Czech Republic the supporting cast; The Deer (played by Fiona), the Fox (Bonifac) and the Crow (Blue and No-Name) are now ready to join Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg at the location ‘Eden’ in the forests near Cologne [in Germany].”
‘Antichrist’ is reportedly set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May and if so, it would be Von Trier’s first feature film since suffering depression after production completed on his 2007 film “The Boss Of It All.” And from the look and feel of the trailer, it seems likes the depth and darkness that Von Trier may have experienced during that time period will seep through to ‘Antichrist’. A September 11 (that’s right) release date also been rumored.