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Lars von Trier's 2009 film "Antichrist" is a dour-hearted romp through the foul trenches of human depression. The first part of an unofficial Depression Trilogy (which also includes 2011's "Melancholia" and 2013's "Nymphomaniac" ), "Antichrist" is about a couple (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe) who, while engaged in a bout of shower coitus, miss that their five-year-old son has accidentally fallen out of their apartment window and died. Their child's death throws "She" (the characters are unnamed) into a bout of suicidal depression. "He," being a therapist, elects to take her to their cabin in the woods for a therapeutic retreat.

The cabin in the woods bears a closer resemblance to the setting of "The Evil Dead" tha

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