Von Trier's ANTICHRIST - the video game?!

A video game based on a movie from the legendarily volatile Danish director Lars Von Trier almost sounds like one of the lesser commercial parodies from Saturday Night Live. ("Break the Waves... Before they break you!") But it seems a Lars Von Trier game is really happening... And Antichrist, the movie the game will be based on, looks like it could well be the most disturbing, controversial work of Von Trier's career.

Antichrist hasn't been released in the US yet, but it's already scandalized and divided audiences at Cannes. It's a supernatural horror picture featuring incredibly twisted violence, explicit sex, and a few scenes where twisted violence and graphic sex are combined in ways I don't even want to think about. (It tells you something about just how shocking this movie is that even its Wikipedia page is arguably not safe for work.)

According to Slashfilm, the game will be called Eden and it's being developed by Morten Iversen, writer for the Hitman games. Eden will be set after the film, and will feature narration by the film's star, Willem Dafoe. The game will reportedly by a first person shooter, but will somehow force the player to confront their own fears. It sounds like there will be some element of customization to the action. At least, that's how I take Iverson's comment that the game will take you to "your own personal hell."

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