25 Cult Movies You Must See Before You Die
5. Anti-Christ
What would a list of cult movies be without an appearance by Lars Von Trier? The enfant terrible of European cinema has been beloved of the art house crowd since the mid-nineties, when he helped coin the Dogme 95 movement (films with no lighting, non-digetic sound, scripts, or anything else good films actually need). Thankfully, he got over that.
In its place he recently completed his visually luscious “Depression Trilogy”, inspired by the director's own mental health issues, which included Kirsten Dunst apocalypse drama Melancholia and the gruelling, spectacularly unsexy epic Nymphomaniac (parts one and two). It started, however, with maybe his best film to date: Anti-Christ.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Defore star as a couple whose infant son falls off a balcony and dies whilst they're banging, leading to some messed up psycho-sexual issues the husband hopes to cure with a trip to a cabin in the woods. Talking foxes, genital mutilation and Satanism ensues – not for the faint of heart, but otherwise unmissable.