Controversial Antichrist film gets game Comments by Robert Purchese

Does it also have shaky camerawork, annoying cuts, crappy lighting, and the ever pervasive air of pretentiousness that comes with a Lars von Trier film?

I'm all for "new" stuff. but I fail yo see a game here.

Good test of PEGI's de facto regulations, then. But will there be enough room on the box for all the symbols?

Is it April 1st?

@ Domovoi: "pervasive air of pretentiousness" - PSN release is for sure then ;)

The trailer looked interesting, but I'm not sure how a film like this would translate into being a game. It feels like it would be a repeat of turning Fight Club into a beat-em-up (not saying this is as good as Fight Club, just saying it seems much more about the mind than anything else).

OMG I hope it will be sick like MK9!

It cant be any more offensive than the peurile, hate filled garbage in the bible that spawned the myth of the antichrist. If it were a game about god smiting infidels it would pass through the censors without a mention.

Shock for the sake of shock.

"Nature is satans church"

Does that mean that environmentalists are satanists? I KNEW we shouldn't have trusted that scum. >:/

two hander?

edited to add

Two-hander is a term for a play or movie with only two main characters.

thanks wiki

"He’s an extremely creative, condescending, misogynist genius with a shipload of phobias rattling him every day, so we’re like kindred spirits"

Yay for misogyny, says Io! Er...is that really something you want to admit to?

Goreshock games are generally terrible. I still maintain that Braid is the creepiest game I've played all year - monsters and blood do not the fear create.

quote: we’re like kindred spirits

talking of kindred spirits. When will Icarian: Kindred Spirits be reviewed?

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!

Or something.

Antichrist is a fantastic movie (if you like LVT's movies) - it has been hugely hyped over here in Denmark (the cinema was filled with young girls strangely), but is out and out arthouse, with a budget. It isn't like the Dogme95 films, it's a beautiful polished film (a lot of the film could be freeze framed and viewed as a photographic work of art).

How they make this into a game I don't know. Focussing on the "controversial" aspects is to miss the point completely. It may have graphic clitoris snipping and bloody ejaculations, but in my mind the interesting part is as a psychological horror, with an impending sense of overwhelming dread. And as seems to be the case with a lot of Trier's work, I wouldn't want to take the narrative as anything other than symbolic.

Very interested to see how this pans out (Iversen has been involved in some interesting, well made, but rather populist stuff. I also know someone that worked for him on a games project that was panned - I heard it wasnt the most focussed of projects). At least Zentropa is behind this, so there might be some artistic thoughtfulness involved.

How is graphic violence and nudity controversial in games or movies?? It's not 1970 anymore.

The movie looks very interesting, too bad it doesn't play at my location as me and a few friends were thinking of seeing it. From the trailer it doesn't look like a von Trier film at all I'd say, very beautiful.

A game based on it though? How on earth will it be good?

It'd be good on the Wii. Wanking motions for the masturbationy bits, and cutting motions for the genital mutilation.

Lars von Trier is a brilliant writerand director. This film doesn't look too impressive though..

I hope 'dead kids, nudity and graphic violence' isn't the games only selling point. God help us all if it is...

How is graphic violence and nudity controversial in games or movies?? It's not 1970 anymore.

Precisely because this isn't the 1970s ;-)

A woman cuts her bits off with rusty scissors in this movie.

its not very nice.

isn't there a bit where basically sex and death occur at the same time? if that isn't a sign of a psychopath i don't know what is!

I call it!

2/10

I guess someone needs to prove not only the Japanese can make rape sims... :P

Dead kids? Do movies even allow that?

Will it actually have the act of being able to kill children?!

Does it also have shaky camerawork, annoying cuts, crappy lighting, and the ever pervasive air of pretentiousness that comes with a Lars von Trier film?

Oh, how very pretentious of you.

The developer seems to utterly miss the point of the movie, which is precisely why this shouldn't be made. Also because I can't help but feel that videogames just aren't ready for extreme torture and genital mutilation, at least, I'm not.

Sounds utterly dull