I woke up, had breakfast and a coffee, relaxed, and by 11am was watching Antichrist. *Sigh*. This movie was listed in Adam’s recent article 3 Thrillers to Make Your Weekend, and I hope to hell (for my sake more than anything Adam), that I create an adequate addition to his hype.

“Chaos reigns”, throughout Lars Von Trier’s new film, the film in which he calls “the most important of my career”. He has also been quoted as saying that art should be like having a rock in your shoe, and with the discomfort this movie made me feel, he truly created art under his terms. Considering I haven’t stopped talking about this film and it’s themes all day, I would say that yes I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Synopsis? A couple who retreat into a cabin in the forest (adequately named Eden) after the death of their son, a cabin in which the wife has vacationed at with their son previously to get away and write her thesis on gynocide. Woman is grief stricken, man is an arrogant therapist who tries to treat his wife as a patient. Man discovers wife’s research and finds woman truly buys into the idea of gynocide, and through mythological  related interest, thinks women are innately evil. Woman turns on man. The steady decay of a grief-drama into what The Wrap defines as a “deeply perverted take on the horror genre”, is not only seamless and perfectly timed, but fascinating.

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Hitting the “latest DVD releases” button on Rotten Tomatoes or (god forbid) wandering the stocks of Rogers Video (is that still a store?) is really not the way you should be spending your time looking for the latest and greatest flicks available these days. Really, you should just listen to me ;)

Some of the best films out today aren’t really going to be found in your mainstream conversations concerning the Oscars or what’s new at Silvercity… They’re quietly uttered in hush toned between film aficionado geeks out of the fear that you normies (that’s what we call you), might start putting our little-known-finds on your Facebook favs. Well, hoping to expose some amazing foreign and lesser-known cinema to the readers of Homorazzi, here are three, current top picks of mine (the last being a couple years old but still very much fresh!)

Antichrist

If you haven’t heard of Lars Von Trier before, you’re missing out on a brilliant but VERY cerebral director of some amazing films. Not wanting to waste time on a IMDB review of the guy, he writes very dialogue and emotionally driven work that combine Sartre-esque discussions of existentialism with mythology and religion that rivals a Dan Brown novel.

This movie has only two characters- a married couple dealing with grief- but before you pass this one over, please note that the juxtaposition of current and proven science and therapy with ancient and twisted fables of the origin of evil culminate in one of the more horrific and terrifying 30 last minutes of a film I’ve seen in a while. Definitely not for the stupid or feint of heart… If you don’t watch this I’m going to have to assume you’re one of these by the way so get to downloadin’/rentin! (I’m SURE Videomatica has it in… I’ll let you use my account ;)

trailer and other movies after the jump