I remember watching this as a kid while my parents slept, getting shook, burying it, remembering it as a teen, watching it again (whole movie), getting shook again, burying it, watching it as an adult again (living alone), and getting shook one last time. Present day and I must say it's not scary as scary after the fourth watch in broad daylight.
@airscoutborne exposure to something that causes anxiety but in controlled settings or environments helps you overcome it, for example the number one way to overcome social anxiety is my jumping in the deep end and forcing yourself to be social, because it's never as scary as we've made it up to be, dismantling the fear scenarios our brain has concocted in some broken way of keeping us safe from harm.
@@Rjs81187 Would be funny as hell. People of the future doing archeology and they find multiple DVDs of Antichrist one one random yard. They watch it and then bury it again.
Out of context it may seem a bit goofy, but in the film this scene hits you like a bus. One of the most effective horror scenes in any film ever, really
I like it too. But horror is subjective. The are some people who only get scared if something is realistic like a slasher flick where the killer is some ordinary dude with a motive or a psychopath. I have always been more partial to the unnatural appearance of stop motion and puppetry. When I see this scene, it’s the imagery that hits me. The idea. Reminds me of something you would see in old artwork depicting very unsettling scenes like Saturn devouring his son. I imagine if evil could puppet things and manipulate the world, it might try to talk through an animal. Maybe deliver an ominous message to upset someone. People laugh at it but animals can’t talk. So how might a demon puppet an animal if they wanted to give it a voice? Funny thing is, a lot of the stuff other people find scary don’t phase me. Things like typical human killers leave me bored, and the uncanny valley doesn’t have the same unsettling effect on me as stop motion or a puppet. So yeah, this imagery of the fox eating itself and speaking disturbed me, and hit a very primal part of me. Maybe it’s because I’ve been desensitized to thrillers and I need something more unbelievable to scare me, I dunno. Maybe it’s that part of me that remembers when I was a Christian and believed in evil that latches on to being confronted with something that, if it really happened, I would have to start considering evil is real again. Part of me suspects that we could be living in a simulation, and if so, there’s nothing actually stopping the user from tormenting someone with simulated demons and talking foxes and every nightmare they ever had.
To Release is To Resolve how about elaborating or explaining since you apparently know so much about film. How about you make a video breaking the movie down? Oh wait...you won’t...typical potato comment on RUclips
Antichrist is one of those exceptional films.....that I truly adored....that I will never watch again. Hell, that goes for damn near all of LVT's films. There's just something so devastating about his work....it's all so primordial and raw and painful. I'm glad someone is willing to make films like that. After every one of his movies I always feel the overwhelming need to take a shower, drink a glass of cold water, and watch some feel good rom-com. But still....I can't deny the artistic merit of his work, painful and difficult as it may be....and frustrating as he may be as an actual human being.
well in a way that depends...if you're a male of course it is. But, see, I was watching this movie fighting with insomnia, and finally half asleep at 4 A.M I was woken up by this scene at 4 : 19, a dead fox sayin to me : "CHAOS REIGN", I think I never so much shat in my pants than during this winter night, trying to erase this awful vision...sometimes the metaphysical horror in movies surpasses the physical bloody one....
this is one of my favorite scenes in a film i otherwise didn't care *too* greatly for. it's just so tense, absurd, and unexpected yet wholly something that just screams "lars" and i'm here for it
Arguably influenced by the Gmork scenes in the Neverending Story. The similarities between the gruesome low-voiced predator animals and themes (chaos, hopelessness, sadness, The Nothing) is uncanny.
Guy who has never seen any other movie besides “the never-ending story” when he sees another movie: “getting strong never-ending story vibes from this”
@@ribneckbackman1019I hadn't thought about that movie in at least a decade and it's the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the fox's face. You have to have a narrow mind to think the way you do
Saw it once once, and at the time, didn't feel the need to sit through it again. Recently i've felt the need to revisit it.. I guess thats 2020 for you 🤷🏽♂️
Crazy to think this movie came out over 10 years ago. Now it seems some modern horror tries, with limited success, to achieve the abstract confundity of this type but either turns out overstatend and goofy or boring. This is how it's done, regardless of the fact that this scene is good meme potential removed from context. Also the phrase "Chaos Reigns" is a staple of my vocabulary to this day, whether serious or not. Memento Mori.
I agree with you. And this may sound out there, people can believe me or not, but I've experienced supernatural things and here he captures the realism, yes the absurdity and the true horror of it so well.
What I got from this is no matter how much we help someone we're all just eating ourselves in the end. We go through life then we join the dirt and eventually that dirt will be used to grow more things for us to eat
I don’t believe in the devil or god but I imagine them speaking through avatars like this. As dead animals, the random homeless guy, just like out there shit that provides visual discomfort but also emotional. Hearing the voice if god or the devil would not bring you peace lol
Antichrist is one of those exceptional films.....that I truly adored....that I will never watch again. Hell, that goes for damn near all of LVT's films. There's just something so devastating about his work....it's all so primordial and raw and painful. I'm glad someone is willing to make films like that. After every one of his movies I always feel the overwhelming need to take a shower, drink a glass of cold water, and watch some feel good rom-com. But still....I can't deny the artistic merit of his work, painful and difficult as it may be....and frustrating as he may be as an actual human being.
The way the auditory comes in so unexpectedly you just know something bad is about to happen / something off is going to take place vs the fox tearing itself apart reminds me of the symbol of the snake eating it's own tail! With the dark message 'Chaos reigns' almost seems like a bad dream! This movie was underrated and the concepts sometimes got lost in translation to many! I hope someday college professors look at is movie in depth with their students even the way the woman isn't with him who was in sunshine yellow and seems like she means a lot to him the way he was following her but how she disappears leaving The actor Willem Dafoe and is to wonder did what we see just happen is very effective as a scene imo
They attached strips of steak and raw meat under the foxes leg and trained it to eat it. There’s some behind the scenes footage I believe that addresses how they got that effect
I remember watching this as 17 years old when I had the worst sleep scehdule while i just haven't slept for more than 24 hours and this scene just made me fear having this fox jump out of no where to attack me for awhile
I seem to encounter the feelings (hopelessness, despair, dread) that this scene evokes on a daily basis. However, the trappings of civilization allow me to push them aside, even though I am certain that they will return stronger than before. Perhaps their embrace leads to salvation and this is the process DaFoe’s character ultimately experiences.
Looks to me like they had a live (trained?) fox and they stuck some raw meat to its belly for it to pull at. Guts and lip movements added in digitally.
Kind of has a "man behind winkies" Mulholland Drive feel to it. Also, I think the older I get, the more unsettling this scene gets. It's just...damn dude.
I agree with you about not being able to compensate for poor ideas by dressing them up in metaphor. After all it's people who try to pass as being deep and artsy by doing this that caused audiences to disregard the use of metaphor in art entirely as a sign of a pretencious artist. However I think the visuals in this scene weren't being overly vague and it does it's job of disturbing the audience. I for one after watching this scene had the image of these foxes stuck in my head for a good while.
Haven't watched the movie but why does no one talk about camera work? The wild pans and zooms are almost found-footage esque but more voyeuristic since the perspective rarely seems to be from a movie character.
I don't remember seeing this scene in Fantastic Mr. Fox
+Lucas Preti Why haven't I seen that movie combined with this one.
Or Zootopia
Lucas Preti brilliant 😂😂😂👏
Both came out in the same year too
oh no
Man the Goblin Serum really took a toll on a Norman’s psyche.
Lmao... you know what ive had to sacrifice!
@@dragodrago7370he sacrificed for his son cause he died In the beginning of the movie
He's miserable cause he doesn't have fruitcake time
I remember watching this as a kid while my parents slept, getting shook, burying it, remembering it as a teen, watching it again (whole movie), getting shook again, burying it, watching it as an adult again (living alone), and getting shook one last time.
Present day and I must say it's not scary as scary after the fourth watch in broad daylight.
I'm hoping you metaphorically buried it cuz in my mind I picture ppl one day finding dvds buried and being like wtf?
It's because you're numbing your senses
@airscoutborne exposure to something that causes anxiety but in controlled settings or environments helps you overcome it, for example the number one way to overcome social anxiety is my jumping in the deep end and forcing yourself to be social, because it's never as scary as we've made it up to be, dismantling the fear scenarios our brain has concocted in some broken way of keeping us safe from harm.
@@Rjs81187 Would be funny as hell. People of the future doing archeology and they find multiple DVDs of Antichrist one one random yard. They watch it and then bury it again.
did you dig it up every time or buy it again
So, now we know what the fox says.
man, you just cracked me right up!
Haha! Outstanding
You spoiled the mood brilliantly
This is the year of the guilty man
Your television takes a stand
And you find that what was over there is over here
Cringe
Y’know, I’m something of a Chaos expert myself
*Chaotician.
@@radioactivehalfrhyme *Word Bearer
I needed to read this glorious comment after this scene lol
Heretic
Joker reference
Out of context it may seem a bit goofy, but in the film this scene hits you like a bus. One of the most effective horror scenes in any film ever, really
I like it too. But horror is subjective. The are some people who only get scared if something is realistic like a slasher flick where the killer is some ordinary dude with a motive or a psychopath. I have always been more partial to the unnatural appearance of stop motion and puppetry.
When I see this scene, it’s the imagery that hits me. The idea. Reminds me of something you would see in old artwork depicting very unsettling scenes like Saturn devouring his son. I imagine if evil could puppet things and manipulate the world, it might try to talk through an animal. Maybe deliver an ominous message to upset someone. People laugh at it but animals can’t talk. So how might a demon puppet an animal if they wanted to give it a voice?
Funny thing is, a lot of the stuff other people find scary don’t phase me. Things like typical human killers leave me bored, and the uncanny valley doesn’t have the same unsettling effect on me as stop motion or a puppet. So yeah, this imagery of the fox eating itself and speaking disturbed me, and hit a very primal part of me. Maybe it’s because I’ve been desensitized to thrillers and I need something more unbelievable to scare me, I dunno. Maybe it’s that part of me that remembers when I was a Christian and believed in evil that latches on to being confronted with something that, if it really happened, I would have to start considering evil is real again. Part of me suspects that we could be living in a simulation, and if so, there’s nothing actually stopping the user from tormenting someone with simulated demons and talking foxes and every nightmare they ever had.
To Release is To Resolve how about elaborating or explaining since you apparently know so much about film. How about you make a video breaking the movie down? Oh wait...you won’t...typical potato comment on RUclips
Don't know why but that scene made me sad especially at the end when the fox is with the other two animals when the fox looks peaceful 🙁🤔
GlaciusTS you’re spot on, but I gotta know... how many addies did you pop before typing all that out? Lmao
@@GlaciusTS a bit late, you would love the faith game series
This scene is horrifying but the fox is making such a cute face at the end.
It felt to me like he was mad dogging him
@@adamsmasher9769 it felt to me like he was a mystical being transmitting a cryptic message. Either way he was scary af.
It's like he was proud of himself for saying something so profound
@@Onigirli I’d be
Fun fact, Dafoe actually voiced the fox.
Really?
Edit; Yes, really.
Fun fact: Dafoe is the fox.
Fun fact, the fox plays Dafoe
Willem Dafox.
He also did all the farting...
I always viewed this as a one on one with man and nature, with nature asserting that man has not conquered it fully. Chaos reigns.
Nature isn’t always pretty, some natural things are destructive and sad. Nature is chaos and we humans try to make sense and control nature.
Don't do drugs, kids
Man will never conquer nature we can't even predict the weather.
@@czr7j9 did someone burn a forest down with a cigg ?
@@DIHrapozo no it's not but solid attempt at being deep
She: I'm cured! :)
Ron Howard Narration: She wasn't.
Perfect comment. I heard it in his voice. Merci.
Ron Howard Narration: On the next Antichrist Chapter...
Don't care about critics, this is a masterpiece
Most critics think so as well
Antichrist is one of those exceptional films.....that I truly adored....that I will never watch again.
Hell, that goes for damn near all of LVT's films.
There's just something so devastating about his work....it's all so primordial and raw and painful. I'm glad someone is willing to make films like that. After every one of his movies I always feel the overwhelming need to take a shower, drink a glass of cold water, and watch some feel good rom-com. But still....I can't deny the artistic merit of his work, painful and difficult as it may be....and frustrating as he may be as an actual human being.
But the critics are and were good 😂
Critics are serving the general public, not you and I. This is too spiritual in all the wrong ways.
why did you like this movie?
I dunno what was more disturbing in this movie, the animals, or the genital mutilation. No, genital mutilation. Definitely.
well in a way that depends...if you're a male of course it is. But, see, I was watching this movie fighting with insomnia, and finally half asleep at 4 A.M I was woken up by this scene at 4 : 19, a dead fox sayin to me : "CHAOS REIGN", I think I never so much shat in my pants than during this winter night, trying to erase this awful vision...sometimes the metaphysical horror in movies surpasses the physical bloody one....
Definitely
@@vinzelrato same story here, and I just stumbled on this
@@vinzelrato Holy shit! I feel bad for you. This scene is already like nightmares I had as a child. lol
this is one of my favorite scenes in a film i otherwise didn't care *too* greatly for. it's just so tense, absurd, and unexpected yet wholly something that just screams "lars" and i'm here for it
Yup... a scene that saves a film. The film should have had more scenes like this I suppose.
This movie really good
SAME, seeing it for the first time in a decade it's very WOW. I love it.
Arguably influenced by the Gmork scenes in the Neverending Story. The similarities between the gruesome low-voiced predator animals and themes (chaos, hopelessness, sadness, The Nothing) is uncanny.
Not the self disemboweling, but maybe
Guy who has never seen any other movie besides “the never-ending story” when he sees another movie: “getting strong never-ending story vibes from this”
@@ribneckbackman1019I hadn't thought about that movie in at least a decade and it's the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the fox's face. You have to have a narrow mind to think the way you do
@@ribneckbackman1019 This is the funniest comment I've seen in fucking months
"My name is Fox. Fox McCloud. My father is dead."
Now when you see a fox ripping its own guts out with its teeth and saying chaos Reigns you know you got to turn tail and run 😱😱😱😱
I'm so glad one of my favorite romantic comedies is on the Criterion Collection.
I'm suprised that the faith fandom didn't get alerted
Chaos... Reigns!!! *whistle click-click*
Jajajajaj good one XD
the new faith update lookin wild💀💀💀
Saw it once once, and at the time, didn't feel the need to sit through it again. Recently i've felt the need to revisit it.. I guess thats 2020 for you 🤷🏽♂️
With the look he gave the director, I can't believe the fox wasn't even nominated for a golden globe.
one of the most creepy scenes and specially that 4:17 still I love this movie except for the wood block part
Some things you just can't unsee
The fucking scissors man this scissors 😭😭😭😭😭
Crazy to think this movie came out over 10 years ago. Now it seems some modern horror tries, with limited success, to achieve the abstract confundity of this type but either turns out overstatend and goofy or boring. This is how it's done, regardless of the fact that this scene is good meme potential removed from context. Also the phrase "Chaos Reigns" is a staple of my vocabulary to this day, whether serious or not. Memento Mori.
I agree with you. And this may sound out there, people can believe me or not, but I've experienced supernatural things and here he captures the realism, yes the absurdity and the true horror of it so well.
This movie makes you think about how Adan and Eve did not succumb to madness. or maybe they did.
We are Adam and Eve, and we’ve been MAD since we left the Rainforests of Africa.
mother is another movie to keep an eye on
There it is. That's what the fox says.
So this is where Faith got it from. Norman better have John Ward's number...
Not to worry. The fox was later adopted by that guy living behind the dumpster at Winkie's.
Refined
@Andrew Becker Tell a friend. Relive it and die of fear. Repeat.
Haha! Mulholland Drive is a great film!!
Have you seen Inland Empire? That’s even scarier than Mulholland Dr (not as scary as antichrist though)
@@sophiaandsebastian7573 Agreed.
among the best moments in cinema during my lifetime.
I needed this pick-me-up
This editing gives me vertigo
The editor is pleased then
Charlotte Gainsbourg is the arthouse horror queen.
@@nomad639 "huzzah a man of culture"
look i love charlotte but shes really not the arthouse horror queen. shes just the queen of lars von trier female leads, unfortunately
MORTIS
God all mighty!!! That transition behind when the fox suddenly pops up with that low pitch tone is extremely fucking creepy. EEEEEEEEESH!!!
What I got from this is no matter how much we help someone we're all just eating ourselves in the end. We go through life then we join the dirt and eventually that dirt will be used to grow more things for us to eat
I don’t believe in the devil or god but I imagine them speaking through avatars like this. As dead animals, the random homeless guy, just like out there shit that provides visual discomfort but also emotional. Hearing the voice if god or the devil would not bring you peace lol
Chaos reigns... in the hall of the mountain king
One of the movies to never watch twice!
I really do love the mostly handheld camera work outside of the stylized scenes that LVT uses. I wish more DPs adopted that look.
it's all about the editing
"I'm sorry, little fox. Did I interrupt something? Hungry?"
Sick, twisted and disgusting movie. I love it!
D'Ascoyne Yes
The more I grow older, the harder this film hits me.
Give this fox an oscar!
The best thing in this demented, explicit title.
Antichrist is one of those exceptional films.....that I truly adored....that I will never watch again.
Hell, that goes for damn near all of LVT's films.
There's just something so devastating about his work....it's all so primordial and raw and painful. I'm glad someone is willing to make films like that. After every one of his movies I always feel the overwhelming need to take a shower, drink a glass of cold water, and watch some feel good rom-com. But still....I can't deny the artistic merit of his work, painful and difficult as it may be....and frustrating as he may be as an actual human being.
Never ever debate chaos theory with a fox you will lose
It will eat it's own cuts to prove you wrong!
My favorite movie ever.
Trevor Philips of course it is
The way the auditory comes in so unexpectedly you just know something bad is about to happen / something off is going to take place vs the fox tearing itself apart reminds me of the symbol of the snake eating it's own tail! With the dark message 'Chaos reigns' almost seems like a bad dream! This movie was underrated and the concepts sometimes got lost in translation to many! I hope someday college professors look at is movie in depth with their students even the way the woman isn't with him who was in sunshine yellow and seems like she means a lot to him the way he was following her but how she disappears leaving The actor Willem Dafoe and is to wonder did what we see just happen is very effective as a scene imo
See, I want to know how they achieved the effect of a Fox eating itself. It looks so real. Doesn’t look like puppetry, or CGI. Anyone know?
I think I've heard it's CGI
They attached strips of steak and raw meat under the foxes leg and trained it to eat it. There’s some behind the scenes footage I believe that addresses how they got that effect
It’s CGI, but not 100%. They filmed a real fox eating, and then generated the mouth movement.
It always seemed like the ferns were laughing at him 3:27
I remember watching this as 17 years old when I had the worst sleep scehdule while i just haven't slept for more than 24 hours and this scene just made me fear having this fox jump out of no where to attack me for awhile
I love this movie, recently ordered it through criterion
If you haven't seen this movie yet, you're a silly goose.
Oh you’re such a goober
Well, this explains that whole thing in Faith
M O R T I S
You know, I’m something of a bad father/husband myself.
If you watching this out of context its laughable. But when I saw this in the movie I was terrified at this point, no kidding.
This scene he explained depression ruptured
Almost gives me the shivers
This is exciting.
a nice talking fox :)
I seem to encounter the feelings (hopelessness, despair, dread) that this scene evokes on a daily basis. However, the trappings of civilization allow me to push them aside, even though I am certain that they will return stronger than before. Perhaps their embrace leads to salvation and this is the process DaFoe’s character ultimately experiences.
Dave I believe is a reference to the cruelty and savagery of nature.
@@Hellblazer302 no
This fox right here, inquisitor
Your pet fox on an imperical merchant marine vessel after the galler field goes down for a second
Great movie to fall asleep to
A longshot, but does anyone know how the effects on the fox were performed? They look like practical effects, but it seems too perfect.
Looks to me like they had a live (trained?) fox and they stuck some raw meat to its belly for it to pull at. Guts and lip movements added in digitally.
Necroposting, but the fox is entirely cgi
This part freaked me out really bad the first time I watched the movie. It was so unexpected and strange my mind didn't know what to think.
Horror movies don’t scare me, documentaries do. History scares me the most, why?
Humans are designed to repeat, but on a grander scale.
Huh. So that's what the fox says.
work of a genius
This fox is spiting some trues
That was creepy! I heard this is a great surreal horror film but haven’t seen it yet. I wonder how they pulled that practical effect off?
Kind of has a "man behind winkies" Mulholland Drive feel to it. Also, I think the older I get, the more unsettling this scene gets. It's just...damn dude.
4:15 - I wake in a cold sweat, staring at the man in a hat as he sits in the chair at the foot of my bed
I agree with you about not being able to compensate for poor ideas by dressing them up in metaphor. After all it's people who try to pass as being deep and artsy by doing this that caused audiences to disregard the use of metaphor in art entirely as a sign of a pretencious artist. However I think the visuals in this scene weren't being overly vague and it does it's job of disturbing the audience. I for one after watching this scene had the image of these foxes stuck in my head for a good while.
+john doe I feel like this borrows a little too much from the pig head in Lord Of The Flies.
Agreed
line goes so hard
well that just looks like a typical tuesday
was that the weasel from the Riverbottom Nightmare Band?
One of the most effective modern-day horror pictures. A subversive look at female mythology, inspired by Tarkovsky’s poetic landscapes.
Female mythology?
I meant to say women in mythical and mythological narratives. My mistake.
I thought I smelled some Tarkivsky in those windy landscapes!
@@mako3951 women aren't real
The movie was 10 years ago , I'd hardly call it modern
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S . . . Chaos Reigns 🦊 😎
4:15 my pets when the Gellar Field goes out for .25 seconds while traversing the warp.
Chaos reigns❤
This is concentrated anxiety.
Did this fox just kill himself? Is that what the fox says?!?
there is a story a folklore tail about this.
The fox says enough is enough
Musicologists should analyse sound design in horror films. Kristian Eidnes Andersen is a master.
CHAOOOOOS REEEEEIGNS
Trivium
I swear I’ve seen this part somewhere I just don’t quite remember from where 😰
What does the fox say?!
CHAOS...
REIGNS......
Anyone else found this after looking for the Trivium song Chaos Reigns?
Swedish cook guy's ultimate foe
4:18 When visiting your friend at the reserve goes bad.
Beautifully shot mess of movie
Chaos Reigns!
Did it just ate itself
Now we know what the fox says
Greatest horror movie ever made
Father John Misty sent you
Haven't watched the movie but why does no one talk about camera work? The wild pans and zooms are almost found-footage esque but more voyeuristic since the perspective rarely seems to be from a movie character.
Willam Dafoe is so cool, sure hope nothing bad happens to his balls
Me looking at a blunt on the sidewalk