20 Most Horribly Misleading Movie Titles

20. Antichrist

What It Sounds Like: A sequel to The Exorcist.

What It Actually Is: Lars Von Trier€™s Antichrist has nothing to do with Satan popping to Earth for another round of pea-soup pukery. Its extreme subject matter might make you wish it was (in which case you should try comedy spoof Repossessed.) A moody, sexually-explicit arthouse hit, Antichrist is the first entry in Von Trier€™s unofficial €œdepression€ trilogy. Are you enticed yet?

Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg play a couple mourning the loss of their child. To boost their spirits, they go for a weekend away at a cabin in the woods. He ventures off and hallucinates. She goes off the deep end and cuts off his todger. Pretty standard.

Maybe she€™s the Antichrist.

What It Should Have Been Called: Violent Retreat

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