10 Goriest Film Scenes Ever

7. Antichrist - Genital Mutilation

Antichrist Lars von Trier
Nordisk Film Distribution

If you think you've been largely desensitised when it comes to violence and gore in cinema, then Antichrist is a film that exists purely to test the strength of your stomach.

Lars Von Trier's Antichrist is as weird as it is brutal, and it pulls no punches in showing you some rather graphic scenes of mutilation. Consumed by grief at the death of their son, husband and wife (simply referred to as He and She in the film's credits), decide to try some exposure therapy by retreating from their home and going to stay in a remote cabin surrounded by thick forests.


The film explores many different themes and eventualities i.e. coping with loss, sexuality and sorrow, and portrays them in some very harrowing ways. Two scenes in particular, are so graphic in their representation of genital mutilation, that the film's crew had to get porn stars to play doubles for Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg's He and She characters.

When said scenes involve crushing testicles with blocks of wood, severing parts of the female anatomy and masturbation resulting in bleeding, it's hardly a stretch to say that Antichrist is one of the most daring films in recent memory as far as uncompromising gore is concerned.

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