The wait is over! On Friday, Lars von Trier’s critically divisive, Cannes-booed Antichrist — about a husband and wife who abscond to a cabin in the woods to mourn the death of their son and lose their genitals — finally arrives in theaters. Surely you’re curious about this thing, but what if your weak stomach and reports of the film’s graphic sexual mutilation have you discouraged? Fear not! Vulture’s seen the movie and we’re here to help with an illustrated, slightly spoiler-y guide to briefly escaping the theater during Antichrist’s two most gruesome scenes, should you need to.
The squeamish will be happy to know that Antichrist’s first hour is 100 percent mutilation-free. Sit back and relax! At the 65-minute point, though, you’ll see Dafoe enter a shed and start flipping through some Polaroids of his dead son. This is your cue to get up. When you see this shot …
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