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ANTICHRIST-2009-This is more pretentious, self indulging nonsense from Lars Von Trier. You can tell right away by the “prologue” where a couple (Wilhem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) have sex in slow motion while opera plays. While this is going on their infant son gets out of his crib and falls out a window to his death. The rest of the story (done in chapters) follows the couple as they try and come to grips with their loss. They go to a secluded cabin the the woods but things don't get any better. 

 As usual Von Trier gets actors to embarrass themselves by saying and doing stupid things, exposing their bodies and generally acting idiotic to satisfy his own warped ego mainly fueled by critics who heap inexhaustible praise on this kind of garbage. 

Von Trier doesn't need a movie camera he needs a psychiatrist. There is a dedication to Andrei Tarkovsky at the end.

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Nonsense vs. Stupidity

VAMPIRES VS. ZOMBIES- (2004)-Confused nonsense that has something to do with a flu like disease that turns people into flesh eating zombies (what an original concept!). There is also a storyline that has something to do with vampires. A guy and his daughter and an older man are on there way to some crypt to destroy someone named Carmilla who is in fact travelling with the daughter (?). Yeah, I was mixed up too..Brinke Stevens (the only member of the cast I knew) plays some kind of witch and there are dream sequences, lesbian scenes, bad SFX and a lot of talk...

The DVD also contained a short film by the same director (Vince D'Amato) called HEADS WILL ROLL (with much of the same cast including Stevens) which I had read was better than the feature. Well, you couldn't do much worse than this feature so I guess the short was ok...

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