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The Human Centipede

post #1 of 40
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Probably the most sickening / original horror movie I have seen in the last few years



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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 horror film starring Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura, and directed by Tom Six. It tells the story of a crazed doctor who surgically joins three victims together, mouth to anus, to form a 'human centipede'. The film won several awards at horror film festivals but received mixed reviews from critics.
post #2 of 40
http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/horror...hen-reconsider



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But garbage like this is not chasing anything remotely true or meaningful. There's no higher purpose—or even just cheap entertainment from a good gory thrill. This isn't fun in any sense of the word. Nor is it well acted (the villain is a shite combo of Dr. Caligari and Sean Penn stuck in a tea party rally), or well written, or even well conceived—let’s not even touch the medical impossibility of keeping three human beings alive after being sewn together, when two of them have no way of ingesting real food or water. The writers try to feed us some BS line about the two American girls being a "tissue match"—and then somehow both of them also “match” with a random Japanese dude? Please. Stop treating your audience like morons. Granted, this is an ASS TO MOUTH movie, so maybe I ask too much.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say this movie isn’t even horror. Watching churlish teens get chased down and slaughtered by a madman with a mission—that’s horror. Watching a clownish German yell “Feed her!” as a Japanese guy shits in a girl’s mouth—that’s just fetish porn. All I could do besides fight the nausea (and yes, I can say this is the first horror movie I’ve ever seen that brought on nausea—and not minor nausea, but “Oh shit I better know where the nearest bathroom is” nausea) was feel sorry for the actors who signed on to this literal shitshow. This kind of movie is worse than a casting couch. Worse than hardcore porn, even. At least in porn you retain some modicum of dignity. Not much—but more than you get crawling on your hands and knees for 45 minutes with your face grafted to a Japanese dude’s anus and your butt surgically joined to your best friend’s face.

Yeah, sounds original all right.
post #3 of 40
Thread Starter 
ok well original in the sense that I haven't seen a movie where three people have been joined ass to mouth to create a human centipede before...
post #4 of 40
There are some sick people out there.

And here I thought this was going to be about shoes.
post #5 of 40
somewhat funny.. 'FEED HER....'
post #6 of 40
"I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine. "
-Roger Ebert on The Human Centipede
post #7 of 40
I'm seriously surprised Ebert would review such a film.
post #8 of 40
I wouldn't mind being in the middle of a human centipede.
post #9 of 40
This was playing at my local independent theatre this weekend for the midnight movie. I was very tempted to go, just for the campiness of it, but didn't get around to it. I'm still hoping it comes back around.
post #10 of 40
Kinda reminds me of the trick people play on geese in the park: you tie a piece of bacon onto a long string, then the first goose comes up and eats the bacon. Since the goose digests and shits so quickly, the greasy bacon comes out and is ready for the next goose to come up and eat it. All of a sudden, you have a bunch of geese with a string running between them - through their mouths and out their assholes.
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post #12 of 40
How to give thread negative stars????
post #13 of 40
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Tom Six has stated that the inspiration for the film came from a joke he always made to friends about punishing people who were nasty or annoying, or a child molester by stitching their mouths to the anus of an overweight truck driver
jesus fuck, man
post #14 of 40
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Originally Posted by HORNS View Post
Kinda reminds me of the trick people play on geese in the park: you tie a piece of bacon onto a long string, then the first goose comes up and eats the bacon. Since the goose digests and shits so quickly, the greasy bacon comes out and is ready for the next goose to come up and eat it. All of a sudden, you have a bunch of geese with a string running between them - through their mouths and out their assholes.

WTF! Does this actually work?
post #15 of 40
This centipede arrangement looks very sustainable. Very green.
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