I think it is ironic that the reviewer is named Zach, a name that by definition means pure. Antichrist is the opposite of pure and Zach is the opposite of a man. Zach sounds like a transsexual hairdresser from the Bronx giving out ten dollar hand-jobs in the dank back alley of his salon.

It becomes clear to anyone who reads Zach-E-Boys review that you have some serious issues with torture-porn as you have already confessed to a deep lusting need to re-watch this film you so quickly condemn, much like a self hating fag. The evidence piles up as you go on to confess your love of hardcore graphical images from other works like Saw (I can only assume you have seen and own Saw I through VI)

Zach and his arguments are weak, perhaps due to some troubles in his up bringing and he cannot find peace in his own self worth. We can only hope he seeks out the help he so desperately needs to reduce the large amount of torture-porn he obsessively hoards.

The End.

Understanding ‘Antichrist’ through the lens of the contemporary genre film isn’t going to work because the film defies genre. This is something that we have come to expect from Lars Von Trier.

It’s not about exploitation, it’s not torture-porn like ‘Saw’ or ‘Hostel’. Antichrist speaks to us about the relationship between sex, gender and existentialism. It reveals that the application of rationality as an attempt to explain human behaviour is something to be approached with skepticism.

I certainly got more out of the film than I did from ‘Paranormal Activity’, which this site seems to adore. Maybe stick to reviewing the blockbusters and leave the art films for people that understand them.

Truthfully, I think that the subtext of the film–the story’s look at socially-constructed gender roles and the psychological effects therein–is lost a bit as the movie basically labels itself as torture porn. While some of the scenes made me cringe, primarily the whole gential mutilation bit, the audience is perpetually waiting for a scene that lives up to the disclaimer: this movie contains extremely graphic violence and nudity.