Antichrist: Now in Vomit-O-Rama!
By Craig Kennedy - September 10th, 2009; 10:31 pm
Australian poster courtesy of IMP Awards
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg has received many negative reactions since it premiered at Cannes, but it’s apparently been greeted in Toronto with an actual vomiting.
According to Michael Guillen over at Twitch, “a dude a few seats down from me threw up on the people in front of him.”
You can’t buy endorsements like that.
Filed under: Film Festivals
Tags: Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars von Trier, TIFF 2009, Toronto International Film Festival, Willem Dafoe
That poster is great and not-so-subtly hints at the possible reason for the vomiting. I’m actually looking forward to this one now with a sustained mixture of anticipation and dread.
Yeah, that’s a great poster. No word on whether it’s actually been officially approved though apparently.
Antichrist might just be the movie I want to see most that I’ll never want to watch again…if that makes any sense.
It could be this year’s Happiness. Oh wait, there’s a sequel to that that I want to see but probably never see again. Dammit.
As I said elsewhere…I watched Happiness a 2nd time. Let’s just say it didn’t have the same magic.
I’ll see it, but I’m wearing a raincoat. A hooded one.
Bring nose plugs too.
I was a chain vomiter in grade school. One kid would spill and the sound and smell would send me over too.
Even the smell of that sawdust crap the janitor would dump on it was enough to get me to hurl.
You can imagine I was probably pretty popular with the ladies in 4th grade.
Little has changed.
Having seen the film I can confirm that the most shocking scenes induce squirms (anything to do with violence to genitalia – particularly male – has that effect on me). But responding to it by vomiting just seems plain bizarre. Next thing you know viewers will start suffering spontaneous combustion.
If it makes you feel better, Craig, I puked in the pool once during swimming class. I’d almost forgotten about that. Thanks!
People vomited during The Exorcist. In that case, it was a “monkey-see-monkey-do” thing. They were just imitating the cool behavior they saw in the movie. It was trendy to be possessed.
Now, if people responded to genital mutilation by mutilating their genitals, it would arguably be going too far. It would also be an unforgettable cinematic experience. Imagine how bummed James Cameron would be.
James Cameron! Imagine genital mutilation in 3-D!!
Pool barf…classic.
Sartre, is there a lot of tension in the movie? Something that could get someone really worked up and stressed out? Sometimes that’ll do it.
This is one of the most hilarious threads I’ve read in a while. You guys are too funny.
Once in fifth grade I ran after my friend who had just puked, I miscalculated my jump over the vomit and well, yeah, I slipped and fell on it.
We need to take ownership of our puke stories more often.
ETA. I’m not sure whether I can sit through this film, even if I’m a huge admirer of Lars. It just sounds — painful.
You win, Dorothy. I hope nobody tops you. I don’t think I could take it.
Dorothy throws in physical comedy for the win!!
I’m fully on board seeing this, but I’m pretty sure at best I will admire it more than actually like it….if that makes sense.