I've always watched a fair bit of edgy horror, and that quantity has certainly increased over the last 18 months writing for Film Gutter. However there do remain a few notable gaps in my viewing history – for example, I've yet to watch movies such as Salo, Melancholie Der Engel or Cannibal Holocaust. Gasp, right? Of course those are all matters that I will be rectifying, and today I'll be filling in another one of those notable blanks by watching Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. Von Trier is a director I've long been aware of, and have skirted with a few of his movies in the past, but the one that seems to stand out as having the strongest reputation in terms of pure shock value is his 2009 opus, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Stellar casting, no doubts, but how does the movie itself stand up?

 
Welcome back to Film Gutter, where today we're about to head somewhere a little confined and distinctly uncomfortable. Well, I suppose uncomfortable is something we do particularly well here, but a jaunt to prison is not something that appeals too heavily. We're diving head-first into the world of controversial film-maker Uwe Boll – whom I recently had the pleasure of interviewing for Gutter Talk – with 2009's Stoic.