A 2000 American Horror Drama directed by Janusz Kaminski that has a Catholic Teacher (Winona Ryder) meeting a atheist reporter (Ben Chaplin) who a group of priests believe was chosen to be the Antichrist.
The movie also stars Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall, John Hurt, W. Earl Brown, Alfre Woodard, Elias Koteas, John Beasley, John Diehl, Brad Greenquist, Anna Gunn, and Brian Reddy.
It was released on October 13, 2000.
Tropes for the film:
- Anti Anti Christ: Peter Kelson is told about his starring role in a prophecy a short while before it's supposed to happen.
- Artistic License – Religion: The filmmakers have admitted to making up the Bible verse that is central to the plot. Peter Kelson is seemingly doomed to be possessed by demons because he hasn't been baptized. No one thinks to just baptize him and end the issue. Apparently, the director and writer thought Catholics can only be baptized as infants. Not to mention that baptism doesn't do jack to the possibility of being possessed. Its function is to prevent being condemned due to the Original Sin and to allow a person to receive other sacraments. It should also be noted that in extraordinary circumstances (as in when a person is likely to die unbaptized and there is no priest around), baptism can also be performed by a lay Catholic.
- As the Good Book Says...: The plot of the Antichrist-conspiracy revolves around a quotation from the book of Isaiah that the writers made up.
- Tagline: "Deliver us from evil".
