Von Trier's Antichrist. Is He Returning to the Horror Genre?

Let me begin by saying that if nearly half his cast hadn't gone and died, thus preventing him from finished the thing, Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom would stand as an absolute classic in the realm of world wide horror film. As it is the two completed segments are a cruel, cruel tease for fans, every bit as strange and compelling as David Lynch's Twin Peaks and the Steven King penned American remake / interpretation / completion of the story was an utter travesty. I am one of those fans who has been hoping in vain that Von Trier would find a way of completing the Kingdom cycle, for years trolling the web from time to time hoping to stumble across some glimmer of possibility. Back when it looks as though labor strikes in Hollywood were going to shut down the production of Dogville there were rumors of Von Trier re-casting and completing his classic miniseries, but no ... the labor dispute was resolved and the Kingdom faded back into the mists.

So I'm mighty happy about this. After years of spinning art house philosophy and trying to change the way films are made around the world Von Trier is returning to 'commercial film making' and the horror genre with Antichrist. Currently editing Dogville's sequel Von Trier has been quoted as saying that he needs "to earn some money" before shooting the third and final film of his American trilogy and, thus, once he has finished editing Manderlay he will launch production on a new horror film "for a wider audience, a horror film not with vampires but more in the style of The Kingdom ... I don't want to say any more. It is kind of an Antichrist with international distribution, based on the theory that it was not God but Satan who created the world."

Yeah, I'll be in line day one. Go rent The Kingdom. Right now. Hell, just buy it.