`` `` Dancer in the Dark '' '' has met with vitriolic reaction at film festivals . It 's not often that an art-house director takes up the implements to make a horror film , and for a while , `` Antichrist '' compels with its anguished intensity and audacious stylistic choices , not least Tom Charity film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg , Tom Charity as troubled couple . Horror goes from moody to over-the-top and graphic . To CNN.com 's Lars von Trier , the film is a `` calamitous atrocity ''
`` `` Dancer in the Dark '' '' has met with vitriolic reaction at film festivals . Tom Charity film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg , Tom Charity as troubled couple . Horror goes from moody to over-the-top and graphic . To CNN.com 's Lars von Trier , the film is a `` calamitous atrocity ''