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Title: Human Centipede
Post by: skuts on April 28, 2010, 07:38:39 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmTv2nqTHo

What can anyone possibly say?

The trailer basically gives away the whole movie. About six years ago, I read a short story on alt.sex stories about a mad doctor during WWII who would kidnap refuges and surgically attach them together for his own amusement.

I wonder if this guy read the same story.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on April 28, 2010, 12:43:39 PM
I wonder if this guy read the same story.

Looks like the doctor is based on Josef Mengele, who I'm sure inspired the story you read.

So, what was the point of sewing together three people end to end? Was there a scientific goal, or did it just give him a perverted thrill?


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: skuts on April 29, 2010, 11:44:53 AM
I love outrageous movies. I was first in line for Pink Flamingos when it opened, I touted the joys of Eraserhead far and wide, I subjected my friends to Bloodsucking Freaks.

Maybe I'm getting old. This thing is probably the vilest, most pointless thing I've ever seen. How much of this kind of crap do we have to take? What filmmaker says to himself "this is a great idea for a movie"? What distributor says, "yeah, I can make money with this"?



Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Jim H on April 29, 2010, 01:09:54 PM
I love outrageous movies. I was first in line for Pink Flamingos when it opened, I touted the joys of Eraserhead far and wide, I subjected my friends to Bloodsucking Freaks.

Maybe I'm getting old. This thing is probably the vilest, most pointless thing I've ever seen. How much of this kind of crap do we have to take? What filmmaker says to himself "this is a great idea for a movie"? What distributor says, "yeah, I can make money with this"?

Well, it looks like a sequel will get made, so...  The distributor was right.

That aside, the general consensus on this movie is it is as disgusting and revolting as you'd think, and that was clearly what the goal of the film is.  That, and nothing more. 


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: oxode on April 29, 2010, 02:00:25 PM
Oh, what a surprise! The mad surgeon is German! Never would have dreamed of this!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on April 29, 2010, 06:06:57 PM
I love outrageous movies. I was first in line for Pink Flamingos when it opened, I touted the joys of Eraserhead far and wide, I subjected my friends to Bloodsucking Freaks.

Maybe I'm getting old. This thing is probably the vilest, most pointless thing I've ever seen. How much of this kind of crap do we have to take? What filmmaker says to himself "this is a great idea for a movie"? What distributor says, "yeah, I can make money with this"?

Yeah, the trailer is one of those things I wish I could unwatch. I like a creatively outrageous thriller as much as the next person, and I like things make me cringe a bit, but that made me imagine things that still make me shudder a day later. I can honestly say that's the first time a movie has ruined my appetite, and that was just the trailer. I agree, absolutely pointless except to come up with the most revolting thing they could put on film. Makes a good case for censorship.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: indianasmith on April 29, 2010, 06:37:24 PM
that is twisted and disturbing . . .



and yet a small part of me wants to see it.


Am I well?


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: jimmybob on April 29, 2010, 06:52:06 PM
Honestly, if you had a choice, would you rather enlighten or scar your audience?

-Jimmybob


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on April 29, 2010, 10:00:13 PM
that is twisted and disturbing . . .



and yet a small part of me wants to see it.


Am I well?

That's the worst part. The idea, revolting as it is, is just interesting enough that I keep thinking about the technical problems of doing something like that, and I manage to get grossed out every time. I suppose that's better than being comfortable with it. Unfortunately, that kind of morbid fascination is exactly what is going to guarantee the success of this film, but I definitely won't be watching it. I've seen my share of shocksploitation flicks, but this has cruelty on a level I'm just not comfortable with.

I will say one thing though. I bet they had some laughs shooting some of those scenes. The premise of the movie is so ridiculous that it should be funny, but empathy tends to get in the way.

Actually, if it was done more tongue in cheek (no pun intended), it might be a totally different story. I read an excerpt from a review that expressed similar sentiments - that they came up with a really gross idea and wasted no time in getting it shot. The doctor is evil and the victims are abused and there's no point to any of it. This reviewer suggested that it might have been more entertaining to present the victims as "shallow expendables" and encourage the audience to dislike them, and even find themselves occasionally rooting for the doctor.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Doggett on April 30, 2010, 04:50:12 AM
that is twisted and disturbing . . .



and yet a small part of me wants to see it.


Am I well?

All is well, Indiana.  :smile:
I'm wanna see it too !
Some things are gross, but this goes above and beyond !!! It shows more imagination than rubbish like Hostel !

Man, even the trailer is sickening me... Can't wait to see it !


There's already a sequal...



Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Raffine on April 30, 2010, 01:38:40 PM
Comcast is offering this one right this minute as an On Demand selection.

It does look disgusting and worthless (same goes for Comcast), but I'm oddly intrigued...

Is the sequel gonna be HUMAN MILLIPEDE?


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 30, 2010, 03:43:54 PM
I have been requested to review this, so I am going to watch it on On Demand, against my will.  I may have a review up as early as next week.  I'll give you my thoughts here too, of course. 


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: lester1/2jr on April 30, 2010, 05:52:55 PM
karma for admitting you read alt.sex stories


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 30, 2010, 06:07:17 PM
Honestly, if you had a choice, would you rather enlighten or scar your audience?

-Jimmybob

Enlighten, obviously.  But scarring them is much easier, which is why filmmakers take that route.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on April 30, 2010, 06:56:29 PM
Is the sequel gonna be HUMAN MILLIPEDE?

According to Wikipedia, the sequel is going to have about a dozen people stuck together, which actually seems like it might be less bothersome, being on less of a personal level than three people and almost too silly in general to take seriously. Apparently, the plan was to soften people up with this movie, then go all out with a full-length centipede and other bizarre medical experiments. The word "trilogy" also came up. Why mad scientists would keep doing this to people is anyone's guess. The first one you can explain away as a sadist with a peculiar obsession, but how does one explain why another doctor would choose to pick up where this guy left off and take it large scale? And sticking twelve people together is not something one guy can do secretly in his basement. It would have to be a genuine research project, with staff and facilities and financial backing. The sequels can only get more farfetched.

This apparently started out as a gross joke about how to punish really bad people, which is the sort of activity I'm sure most of us here are acquainted with. You come up with something really creatively gross, everybody goes "Eeeeew!" and you move on. I just find it incredible that people are putting the effort into taking something like that as far as they possibly can without really building on it. The whole purpose of the movie appears to be that image of somebody crapping down somebody else's throat. Everything else is just there to make it happen. I'll be interested in hearing the Rev's opinion, and whether this thing has any redeeming qualities. I will definitely pass on seeing it for myself.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Jim H on April 30, 2010, 09:36:39 PM
I think the best thing about this movie is the actor's name who plays the mad doctor. 



DIETER LASER!!!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Raffine on May 02, 2010, 08:27:35 AM
Entertainment Weekly gives it a B+...

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364730,00.html (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364730,00.html)


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Nukie 2 on May 02, 2010, 08:57:30 AM
This movie just makes me angry and wanting to pummel the doctor's head in with my fist.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: SPazzo on May 02, 2010, 10:03:50 AM
Hmm...  I'm sorta of curious to see this movie.  But, from the trailer, it looks really sick.  And I mean, bad sick, not cool sick.  (If I meant cool sick I would have typed it like "sick")

I'll probably rent this at some point, watch about half, turn it off in disgust, then watch the rest the next day out of curiosity.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 02, 2010, 12:46:03 PM
Entertainment Weekly gives it a B+...

[url]http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364730,00.html[/url] ([url]http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364730,00.html[/url])


"It's to my fellow depravity-heads — and to no one else — that I recommend The Human Centipede (First Sequence), a surgical-nightmare exploitation film that has no pretense to anything beyond making you go, 'My God, now that is gross.'"


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Ash on May 02, 2010, 02:32:37 PM
This movie looks awesome!   :thumbup:

Definitely going to add it to my Netflix queue.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Trevor on May 03, 2010, 02:23:46 AM
 :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

After reading what is here and elsewhere, uh-uh, no thanks.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Nukie 2 on May 03, 2010, 12:08:19 PM
So a doctor studied hard for a decade at medical school and went through all those apprenticeships so he could surgically attach peoples
mouths to others anuses...
I'm glad society can allocate scarce resources so efficiently!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 03, 2010, 02:38:15 PM
So a doctor studied hard for a decade at medical school and went through all those apprenticeships so he could surgically attach peoples
mouths to others anuses...
I'm glad society can allocate scarce resources so efficiently!

Yeah, but when that's all the movie is about, making him a renowned surgeon obsessed with... you know... is the easiest way to get there. It's like the pizza delivery in a bad porno move; how the guy gets into the woman's house isn't all that important. There just needs to be some small pretense of a story.

That gives me an even stranger thought - there are probably fans of scat porn who are having a whole different reaction to this movie. :buggedout:



Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Raffine on May 03, 2010, 02:42:16 PM
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That gives me an even stranger thought - there are probably fans of scat porn who are having a whole different reaction to this movie.


Another thought: it would be much, much worse to be the second or third in line than to be the first...


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 03, 2010, 03:07:13 PM
Second has it the worst, I think. The front gets to talk, eat food, see where he's going. The back at least has one end free, and I imagine the organic matter is much more broken down by the time it gets there. The middle has no freedom of movement whatsoever.

Mind you, there isn't going to be much nutrition left for the back end, and any parasites or bacteria will have had three digestive systems to breed in before they leave. Does he give them antibiotics constantly, and are they given food that will make it to Number 3 at least partly intact (although hopefully not corn on the cob). Actually, there are a lot of problems with an experiment like that, besides it being cruel and serving absolutely no purpose. This is one of the reasons why I'm now just a little bit tempted to see the movie. I understand they hired a real surgeon to devise something plausible, and I'm kind of curious about how he got around some of the this stuff.

And there are many other questions. Could the doctor punish his creation with laxatives? Or baked beans?


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Andrew on May 03, 2010, 03:34:40 PM
This could have been more disgusting.  The trailer could show a big pile of chocolate Exlax in a dog food dish, which would make being second or third in line quite a bit worse.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Raffine on May 03, 2010, 05:41:11 PM
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Or baked beans?

The results could shatter windows and knock down walls.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 03, 2010, 06:03:13 PM
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Or baked beans?

The results could shatter windows and knock down walls.

I'm thinking a huge fart is most likely going to have to escape through the next person's nose. Come to think of it, if you keep passing poo down the line like that, you're bound to generate a lot of gas somewhere.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 03, 2010, 06:59:51 PM
Man, I hope this board's speculations are a lot worse than what actually occurs in the movie.  Thanks for helping to psychologically prepare me for the worst.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Paquita on May 03, 2010, 09:55:39 PM
So a doctor studied hard for a decade at medical school and went through all those apprenticeships so he could surgically attach peoples
mouths to others anuses...
I'm glad society can allocate scarce resources so efficiently!

I'm so glad you said that because up to that post I was almost tempted to watch the trailer.. now I really don't want to!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Jim H on May 04, 2010, 02:45:09 AM
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That gives me an even stranger thought - there are probably fans of scat porn who are having a whole different reaction to this movie.

Well, this film is to scat porn as rape porn is to regular porn.  I think that's probably the best comparison. 

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Man, I hope this board's speculations are a lot worse than what actually occurs in the movie.  Thanks for helping to psychologically prepare me for the worst.

From the reviews I'm looked at, it appears that yes, our musings are actually worse than what appears on screen.  There's also one sequence that actually deals with excrement, from what I can gather.  It's gross, but from the way reviewers talk about it, not overly graphic.  Maybe I'm reading the reviews wrong though...


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 04, 2010, 05:07:10 AM
There's also one sequence that actually deals with excrement, from what I can gather.  It's gross, but from the way reviewers talk about it, not overly graphic.  Maybe I'm reading the reviews wrong though...

I don't suppose it could be graphic, since you wouldn't see any poo until Number 3 goes number 2. Unless the centipede springs a leak at one of the joints. :teddyr:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 05, 2010, 06:06:52 PM
OK, here's my review of HUMAN CENTIPEDE, released to badmovies.org readers first:


There’s something in Hollywood that’s called a “high concept.”  It doesn’t mean what you probably think it means.  It refers to a plot hook that is so simple it can be compellingly summarized in a single sentence, like “a mad doctor turns three people into a human centipede.”  People will buy tickets to see it based on that easily digestible premise, so filmmakers can fill the remainder of the movie with whatever supporting crap they need to, just so long as it pads the film out to feature length.  The Human Centipede is a perfect example of a high concept horror film.  People are seduced into buying a ticket by the idea of seeing a human centipede, never minding the fact that they won’t see anything in the movie they didn’t already imagine when they heard the one sentence summary.  After watching the two minute trailer, it seemed like I knew everything that was going to happen in the film, so I was curious to see how director Tom Six would fill up the remaining 88 minutes.   The results of my study follow.  (Note: there aren’t really any spoilers in the following description, as there’s not enough plot to spoil).

    * HORROR MOVIE SETUP WE’VE SEEN 1,000 TIMES BEFORE:  Two hot, ditzy American tourists in Holland put on too much eye makeup, sensing that it will make them look cool, sexy and vulnerable when it smears in the rain after their caught in a downpour after their car breaks down late at night in a spooky woods and they have to walk to an isolated ranch style home where a doctor who looks like a Dutch Christopher Walken with acne scars serves them a drugged drink.  There is actually one valuable lesson to be learned in this segment: if you’re on a deserted road and find you have to rush into the woods to use the bathroom, don’t do your business right in front of the parked car of the only homicidal maniac to be found in a twenty five kilometer radius. 20 minutes.
    * RECOGNITION OF THE HORROR THAT’S ABOUT TO BEFALL THEM:  The dastardly villain proves he’s willing to go to any lengths in his villainy.  Recapitulating the trailer in case the girls didn’t catch it on YouTube, he then shows his helpless victims a helpful slideshow of the horrors he’s about to inflict upon them.  15 minutes.
    * FALSE HOPE 1: THE HEROINE ESCAPES!:  Realizing that there’s still a lot of time to fill up, the villain turns his back for a split second to allow the heroine to escape.  The villain gets more character development when he proves his dastardliness by refusing to let the girl go, even though she pleads with him.  Realizing there’s still a lot of time to fill up, the heroine relies on her ditziness and refuses to do the one sane thing anyone in her situation would do: run away as fast as possible and come back later with help for her friends.  10 minutes.
    * THE HORROR ABOUT TO BEFALL THEM BEFALLS THEM: Surgical tooth removal and buttock-flap creation, not as grisly as you might imagine.  Spooky music.  The human centipede is revealed!  5 minutes.

The movie has now achieved its purpose, but there’s still a ways to go.  So we get:

    * THE ACTUAL HORROR OF THE HORROR THAT BEFELL THEM DAWNS ON THEM: The implications of life as a human centipede are fully explored.  The evil doctor trains the human centipede to walk, fetch the morning paper, and eat from a dog bowl.  The story briefly and distastefully touches upon the elimination issue that was probably the first thing that came to your mind when you heard the premise.  The two girls who make up the second and third segments never fully adjust to life as a human centipede; just as they never stopped babbling in their pre-human centipede days, they never stop sobbing for the rest of the movie.  Ladies, I’m sure that daily life as a human centipede is hard, but at some point you just have to suck it up and stop whining.  The fact that their sobs are muffled by the buttocks of the segment ahead of them really doesn’t make it any less annoying.  15 minutes.
    * FALSE HOPE 2: THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE ESCAPES!:  The authorities start sniffing around to investigate all the mysterious disappearances.  This sets up a hope that everything will turn out alright.  This is intended to create suspense.  The human centipede takes advantage of the situation and escapes, sobbing all the while!  The human centipede briefly gets the upper hand but chivalrously decides not to take the doctor’s life or keep the precious weapon it found.  15 minutes.
    * CLIMAX:  The detectives forget their detective training, thus risking their lives, at crucial moments.  The saga of the human centipede takes an unexpected turn.  Dumb, but unexpected.  The ending is supposed to be a downer, but really, the authorities will arrive in a few hours, and how hard can human centipede reversal surgery actually be? 10 minutes.

So, the answer to the question of how director Tom Six would pad the film to fill up the extra 88 minutes of screentime turns out to be an ingenious and efficient one: he relies on tried and true horror movie formulas and clichés. The full movie is no improvement on the trailer, but it is 45 times longer. Now that I think back on it, the 2 minute trailer may have been padded, as well.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 05, 2010, 06:55:26 PM
So, an ordinary horror movie with people doing dumb things, but with one original idea. Makes sense.

I'm just having a hard time trying to imagine a "buttock flap." How does that work?


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 05, 2010, 07:16:25 PM
So, an ordinary horror movie with people doing dumb things, but with one original idea. Makes sense.

I'm just having a hard time trying to imagine a "buttock flap." How does that work?

It's not shown in surgical detail, but the idea is there's extra skin cut off the buttocks to help create a seal around the posterior segment's mouth.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 05, 2010, 09:56:31 PM
How hard can human centipede reversal surgery actually be?

You know, I think it's pretty safe to say you're the first person who has ever uttered that particular phrase. Congratulations.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Jim H on May 06, 2010, 01:01:57 AM
So, an ordinary horror movie with people doing dumb things, but with one original idea. Makes sense.

I'm just having a hard time trying to imagine a "buttock flap." How does that work?

It's not shown in surgical detail, but the idea is there's extra skin cut off the buttocks to help create a seal around the posterior segment's mouth.

Probably the most fascinating bit is I've heard a few medical types talking about this.  Apparently the concept is actually possible, though it'd require an IV drip to keep a "human centipede" alive.  But, such a creation could live for years like that.

Are they only fused by a flesh flap?  Frankly, if that's the case, I'm surprised they didn't tear themselves apart.  It'd really hurt, but you could survive it, I should think.. 


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: retrorussell on May 06, 2010, 03:48:36 AM
I might see this if it were about humans turned into a centipede, which invades the Mushroom Kingdom along with spiders and giant fleas, while a cannon fires upon the human centipede.  Their body parts, broken apart, continue to attack the cannon as it fires on them.

Something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZPPL3hX3Kk


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 06, 2010, 05:25:15 AM
So, an ordinary horror movie with people doing dumb things, but with one original idea. Makes sense.

I'm just having a hard time trying to imagine a "buttock flap." How does that work?

It's not shown in surgical detail, but the idea is there's extra skin cut off the buttocks to help create a seal around the posterior segment's mouth.

Probably the most fascinating bit is I've heard a few medical types talking about this.  Apparently the concept is actually possible, though it'd require an IV drip to keep a "human centipede" alive.  But, such a creation could live for years like that.

Are they only fused by a flesh flap?  Frankly, if that's the case, I'm surprised they didn't tear themselves apart.  It'd really hurt, but you could survive it, I should think.. 

I'd read the same thing. They consulted a surgeon, who was reluctant at first, but apparently had a lot of fun devising the procedure. Kind of a puzzle for him.

I agree, it doesn't sound like the connection would be strong enough, and now it sounds like the mouth isn't fully attached, but surrounded by a sort of ass gasket. I was expecting more of an integration with a bit of structural support, maybe in the form of a steel rod or something. I suppose if there was too much restructuring, you'd start running into problems of tissue rejection, and you might diminish that sense of someone sh!tting into a mouth, which might actually make it less uncomfortable for viewers.

I've read the full plot summary, and it sounds like the ending is just open enough for one of the centipede segments to return in the sequel. If the pattern of movie cliches continues, one of the girls might come back with some unusual scars, a set of dentures and something of a vigilante attitude. Be interesting to see if I'm right. Was the doctor killed, or was that ambiguous as well? Hard to imagine pulling the same gimmick with a different doctor.

Jeez, now I don't know. There are certain things I know I shouldn't watch, because I find something about them just a little too disturbing. For a fan of action and horror, I actually have a lot of empathy. But it's matched by an equal fascination for the way things work, and this movie is starting to really get me curious, if only to get a good look at the centipede. And it sounds like it might not be the orgy of coprophagia I'd imagined. Heck, even if I just saw the doctor's slide show.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Jack on May 06, 2010, 06:25:35 AM
I got a moderately good look at the human centipede in the trailer, which pretty much satisfies my curiosity.  On a technical note, wouldn't there be very little nutritional value in the poop?  I mean, that's what's left after the human body has extracted everything useful from the food.  Not to mention that water is more important than food, but...I think I'll stop right there. 



Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 06, 2010, 07:44:45 AM
I think that's where the IV drip comes in.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 06, 2010, 11:54:13 AM
So, an ordinary horror movie with people doing dumb things, but with one original idea. Makes sense.

I'm just having a hard time trying to imagine a "buttock flap." How does that work?

It's not shown in surgical detail, but the idea is there's extra skin cut off the buttocks to help create a seal around the posterior segment's mouth.

Probably the most fascinating bit is I've heard a few medical types talking about this.  Apparently the concept is actually possible, though it'd require an IV drip to keep a "human centipede" alive.  But, such a creation could live for years like that.

Are they only fused by a flesh flap?  Frankly, if that's the case, I'm surprised they didn't tear themselves apart.  It'd really hurt, but you could survive it, I should think.. 

I'd read the same thing. They consulted a surgeon, who was reluctant at first, but apparently had a lot of fun devising the procedure. Kind of a puzzle for him.

I agree, it doesn't sound like the connection would be strong enough, and now it sounds like the mouth isn't fully attached, but surrounded by a sort of ass gasket. I was expecting more of an integration with a bit of structural support, maybe in the form of a steel rod or something. I suppose if there was too much restructuring, you'd start running into problems of tissue rejection, and you might diminish that sense of someone sh!tting into a mouth, which might actually make it less uncomfortable for viewers.

I've read the full plot summary, and it sounds like the ending is just open enough for one of the centipede segments to return in the sequel. If the pattern of movie cliches continues, one of the girls might come back with some unusual scars, a set of dentures and something of a vigilante attitude. Be interesting to see if I'm right. Was the doctor killed, or was that ambiguous as well? Hard to imagine pulling the same gimmick with a different doctor.

Jeez, now I don't know. There are certain things I know I shouldn't watch, because I find something about them just a little too disturbing. For a fan of action and horror, I actually have a lot of empathy. But it's matched by an equal fascination for the way things work, and this movie is starting to really get me curious, if only to get a good look at the centipede. And it sounds like it might not be the orgy of coprophagia I'd imagined. Heck, even if I just saw the doctor's slide show.

There was no IV drip shown in the film, a major flaw.  The third segment was shown as malnourished but there was no sense of how much time had passed; it could have been weeks, could have been a few days.  Also it seemed to me that the sutures might not be enough to hold them together.  I don't think the flesh tissue from different specimens would fuse together to create a seal. 

I guess technically two of the segments could return, but I don't know if that would be a major drawing card.  The two heroines were ditzy and annoying, just disposable victims.

The doctor sure looked dead to me, but it's intended as a franchise and he was the face of evil in the movie, so he probably survived.  He certianly was the most memorable character. 

I forgot a rating: I gave it 1.5/5.  It wasn't the worst of the worst; it was watchable, if dumb, and there were a few chuckles along the way.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Torgo on May 06, 2010, 11:56:26 AM
This movie sounds incredibly sick and depraved. Which is the exact reason that I need to see it when it comes out on DVD eventually!  :drink: :wink:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Doggett on May 06, 2010, 12:31:36 PM
I'm waiting for Human Centipede 3: Electric Boogaloo  :teddyr:

With all those extra limbs it should be break dance-tastic !

 :cheers:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 06, 2010, 01:36:41 PM
Also it seemed to me that the sutures might not be enough to hold them together.  I don't think the flesh tissue from different specimens would fuse together to create a seal. 

Good point, and even if the tissue would grow together, it doesn't sound like they took it easy for a couple of weeks while everything healed. Stitches are easy to pull out unintentionally, never mind on purpose.

I guess technically two of the segments could return, but I don't know if that would be a major drawing card.  The two heroines were ditzy and annoying, just disposable victims.

I had heard that the rearmost was dead by the end, which would have worked better for a return in the sequel. I was thinking more along the lines of the survivor being hardened by the experience, and turning into a paranoid survival nut or something. She can't really go on being a naive, ditzy hot chick after going through that, between the emotional scars and the physical ones. It would be another great cliche, in the spirit of movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. The mad doctor survives and carries on making exotic pets for himself, while Middle Segment spends a couple of years tracking him down.

I would assume the doctor somehow survives, just because he is the real monster of the movie, and I can't imagine suspending disbelief enough to think more than one surgeon would be so driven to sew people together in a coprophagic conga line.

After discussing this movie so much, now I've come fully around to wanting to see it, if only to have first-hand knowledge of it. But the trailer has left me a little bit scared. I can watch violence, gore, and just about any kind of ghost or monster, but scenes of prolonged suffering, degradation and even annoying sobbing are just too unpleasant for me, dumb movie or not. The two-minute trailer provoked a reaction I've not had to a movie since I was a kid. But I really want to see it.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 06, 2010, 02:17:34 PM
I had heard that the rearmost was dead by the end, which would have worked better for a return in the sequel.

I'm not sure she was.  She was certainly dying from malnutrition but I never saw her drop dead.

After discussing this movie so much, now I've come fully around to wanting to see it, if only to have first-hand knowledge of it. But the trailer has left me a little bit scared. I can watch violence, gore, and just about any kind of ghost or monster, but scenes of prolonged suffering, degradation and even annoying sobbing are just too unpleasant for me, dumb movie or not. The two-minute trailer provoked a reaction I've not had to a movie since I was a kid. But I really want to see it.

I'm afraid it may be that kind of "event" horror fans feel they have to see whether it's good or bad.  I have to point out that, unlike most people, I was not sickly fascinated by the concept.  I just find the notion of the human centipede totally absurd and hard to relate to; there's no fear because I can't really imagine myself in the position, and there's no empathy because I can't imagine anyone else in that situation.  So maybe I was primed to be unaffected by it.  I wasn't even grossed out or angered by the sadism because the whole concept is just too ridiculous for me.   


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 06, 2010, 04:08:59 PM
I agree that taking a close look at the concept, this movie could be a punchline, with the title invoked for easy laughs. That's partly why I'm interested in seeing it. I like outrageously silly movies, the kind that are met with disbelief when you describe them to people. The other is that the surgery itself is so removed from anything somebody would do in reality (maybe Mengele in his day), it's hard to imagine how it would work, which just makes me think about how it might work.

And one of my first thoughts on seeing the trailer was actually that these people must have had some funny moments making The Human Centipede. Seems like the challenges of three people playing such a creature and moving around like that are not unlike some drunken party game. There are probably some hilarious bloopers.

But the unreality and sheer goofiness of it don't seem to make it any less disturbing for me. I tend to generalize such things, reduce them to the lowest common denominator. Sure, I can't relate to a human centipede specifically, but my mind breaks it down and looks at it in terms of bondage, mutilation, violation, humiliation, dehumanization, loss of individual identity, being completely under someone's control, not being able to talk, having some strange man's butt in your mouth 24 hours a day, eating nothing but someone else's sh!t, and the thought of gagging on a steaming log coming straight from the source. All the deeper implications, when removed from the silly concept, are pretty severe in this movie, possibly beyond what I could stand to watch (and I can usually watch anything). That's just the way I look at things.

Of course, all of this discussion has made it seem far less disturbing. That and the tendency of horror trailers to be scarier than the movies themselves, has got me thinking I might actually get a kick out of it.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Doggett on May 06, 2010, 05:38:09 PM
  Ladies, I’m sure that daily life as a human centipede is hard, but at some point you just have to suck it up and stop whining. 
I'm pretty sure that in their situation, all they can do is suck it up. :wink:



Anyway...
Clearly the film has worked on some level because, love it or hate it, we're all talking about it.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 06, 2010, 06:42:12 PM
I'm pretty sure that in their situation, all they can do is suck it up. :wink:

Eeeeewwww! Have some karma.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: zombie no.one on May 06, 2010, 07:54:03 PM
@Rev. thanks for the review. that, coupled with the trailer, has convinced me I don't want to bother catching this one.

subject matter...possibly interesting, but it looks like another unsubtle 'nu-horror' saw/hostel type snore-fest, which I hate. (correct me if I'm wrong there, by all means)


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Mofo Rising on May 07, 2010, 02:07:48 AM
Rev. pretty much bears out my first impression of the movie after the trailer. It looks boring.

I have enjoyed the discussion of the feasibility of it, if only it weren't in support of such a stupid movie.

Two things:

One, your body is fairly well compartmentalized. Nutrients don't just pass through unscathed. You have a lot of commensal bacteria in your GI tract, which is great for you when it's in your GI tract. E. coli is a prime example. You need this stuff in your GI tract to live, but if you ingest it orally it may well kill you.

Second, the major concern here would be fluid. From the trailer, it seems the secondary people in the centipede only get their intake from the previous person. You can not get enough water this way. Even if they connected the urinary tract to the next person, that wouldn't provide the water needed. First, there just wouldn't be enough. Second, any excreted fluid would have way too high an osmolarity. It's the same reason you can't survive on salt water. Discounting toxins, the secondary/tertiary people would be dead in days. An IV would alleviate this somewhat.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 07, 2010, 06:25:39 AM
Fluid was an issue that bothered me too. The only solutions I could come up with were either a tube through the nose or an IV drip. The doctor would have to be buying Lactated Ringers in case lots. The nasal tube or the IV would also take care of feeding.

I had other thoughts about the feeding problem. One was some sort of gastric bypass on the first two segments, to allow more nutrients to pass through, probably combined with a diet of foods that require a bit more breaking down. Maybe even resect some of the small intestine. It might be possible to work out a system that would require the three digestive systems to fully digest the food.

But that still leaves the problem of bacteria. I hadn't been thinking as much of natural gut flora as as I was things like salmonella. One of the reasons a dog can eat something like raw chicken (or poop for that matter) and not get sick is that they have a short digestive system that passes the bacteria before it has time to multiply. People keep it inside much longer, so it has a chance to become septic. I'm thinking the centipede would need regular doses of antibiotics, which could lead to more problems with nutrient absorption, among other things.

I had thought of even connecting their circulatory systems, which would more evenly distribute waste products as well as nutrients. That is not so easy to do, especially when you have to settle for random test subjects who show up at your door.

Urination was the other thing. Depending on the setup you'd need for feeding and hydration, sending the centipede outside to pee might not be all that convenient. So catheters might be necessary, or some kind of a kennel that requires constant sanitation.

And then there are things like hygiene, menstruation, growth of butt hair, etc. that are perhaps easier to deal with, but add to the overall complication.

However you do it, keeping a human centipede alive is going to be a full-time job requiring a lot of supplies, because no matter what you do, these are still three organisms hooked up to work in a way that they simply aren't constructed to work. Even if you're a total pervert who gets off on doing this to people, I can't see there being much time left over to actually enjoy it. And if your kick is turning three people into one organism, it's a total failure. It's still three distinct people and they can't live that way without a lot of help.

I mean, even a professional surgeon couldn't come up with a solution that didn't require some cheating to keep it alive.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Trevor on May 07, 2010, 07:02:40 AM
not being able to talk, having some strange man's butt in your mouth 24 hours a day, eating nothing but someone else's sh!t, and the thought of gagging on a steaming log coming straight from the source.

 :buggedout: :buggedout:

1. I've just finished lunch for today and I think forever.  :buggedout: :buggedout:
2. You've just decided me: I won't be seeing this.  :buggedout: :twirl: :wink:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 07, 2010, 02:01:43 PM
The discussion about the plausibility of the human centipede is more interesting than the movie.  If they had made a movie where they went into all the medical implications it would have interested me, but bored the core audience. 


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Raffine on May 07, 2010, 03:28:28 PM
They could have made a heckuva pantomime horse:

(http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr154/Raffine/PantoHorseWeb.jpg)


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: wickednick on May 10, 2010, 12:38:14 AM
Just watched it, it's ok, not the most disturbing move I have ever seen, but that mostly because the concept is so goofy and I was laughing so much at some of the things that happened that I could never be truly disturbed by what was going on. The doctor in it is played very campy, with his german accent making it all the better. Everyone else falls into the same category of being fundamentally incapable of escaping any situation.
The idea of the movie, while disturbing just wouldn't work in real life. Sure the lead person is going to be fine, but the second and third are just going to die from lack of nutrition, and serious infections from the excrement that they have to consume. Plus I was thinking if someone throws up they choke to death and I know if I had some guy poop in my mouth my first reaction is not going to swallow it, I think my gag reflex would kick in.Another problem revolves around the sutures just not being secure enough to hold the three together. I would think they would rip out very easy and if it was me I would just pull the sutures out my self, no matter how much it hurt.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 10, 2010, 08:30:04 AM
OK, this has to be the best line in any review of this movie I've seen so far. Found it at http://pajiba.com (http://pajiba.com)

Quote
They’re vapid morons who are too stupid to change a tire, and every time they speak, you cringe at their stupidity, to the point where I found myself thinking, “f**k, when is someone gonna sew an ass to that chick so I don’t have to hear her prattle on?”

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 11, 2010, 06:23:31 AM
Still perusing reviews for this thing, and finding them more entertaining than the movie probably is.
The latest quip that made me laugh - somebody called it "Two Girls, One Jap." :bouncegiggle:

Roger Ebert's review is pretty good. He refused to star it, suggesting that a star rating really doesn't mean anything for a movie like this. Ebert was actually pretty generous in his critique, and gets in a few good chuckles. He also includes a helpful diagram.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100505/REVIEWS/100509982/1023 (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100505/REVIEWS/100509982/1023)


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Chainsawmidget on May 11, 2010, 03:21:44 PM
I'm betting that this isn't nearly as nasty as I'm imagining it. 

So I'll pass on it and just keep it to my imagination. 


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 11, 2010, 03:35:23 PM
Would you believe they'll start shooting the sequel next month, and expect to have it finished later this year? Good grief.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Nukie 2 on May 11, 2010, 03:44:51 PM
Would you believe they'll start shooting the sequel next month, and expect to have it finished later this year? Good grief.

You're obsessed with this movie, watch it already!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Scottie on May 11, 2010, 06:19:12 PM
Saw this last night. All I am willing to say is that this film brought out emotions I had never felt before in a film. As an emotional product, this film succeeds brilliantly. The only hope for humanity that I took away was the belief that this circumstance had never actually happened, and all those emotions I felt were only inside my head. Had this been based on a true story, I might have found myself very sick an hour into the film. 10/10 stars for being the most disturbing movie I've ever seen.

-scottie


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 11, 2010, 07:21:52 PM
Would you believe they'll start shooting the sequel next month, and expect to have it finished later this year? Good grief.

You're obsessed with this movie, watch it already!

Indeed, I don't recall a movie ever being as repulsive and oddly intriguing at the same time. It's kind of a tug of war between curiosity and knowing the limit of what I can stomach. Common sense is still winning, but I'm slowly wearing it down. This discussion is how I work up the nerve, which is something I haven't had to do for a horror movie since I was a kid. Based on my reaction to the trailer, I'd say it could be difficult. Violence, mayhem, supernatural horror are fine, but torture and misery I can't stand to watch, even when it's as far-fetched as this, and this one is designed to push buttons. But being that I haven't been scared to watch any movie since I was a kid, I'll be damned if this silly sh!t-eating caterpillar movie is going to be the exception.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Doggett on May 11, 2010, 07:29:54 PM
Common sense is still winning, but I'm slowly wearing it down.

Spending a lot of time here will do that to ya !  :wink:



silly sh!t-eating caterpillar movie

That's a much better title than The Human Centipede !
 :cheers:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Chainsawmidget on May 11, 2010, 07:44:03 PM
Common sense is still winning, but I'm slowly wearing it down.

Spending a lot of time here will do that to ya !  :wink:



silly sh!t-eating caterpillar movie

That's a much better title than The Human Centipede !
 :cheers:
If Troma ever gets the rights to this movie, that's what it's going to end up getting retitled.  I betcha. 


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on May 11, 2010, 07:54:23 PM
:buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

After reading what is here and elsewhere, uh-uh, no thanks.  :buggedout:
I'm with Trevor... Stupid AND disgusting AND disturbing.  I'll be in the cheese aisle.-Ed

10 minutes later... I REALLY wish I had not investigate dthis.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Raffine on May 11, 2010, 08:24:30 PM
I'm waiting for the Asylum film re-imagining of this one...


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Nukie 2 on May 11, 2010, 09:39:16 PM
I'm waiting for the Asylum film re-imagining of this one...

"The Human Caterpillar"


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 12, 2010, 12:24:25 PM
10/10 stars for being the most disturbing movie I've ever seen.

-scottie

Wow... amazing how opinions can differ.  I wasn't disturbed  by this at all, more just made a little queasy.  I guess other people are just more affected by this idea than I am.  The less plausible something is, the less disturbing I find it.

But it's clear opinions are strongly divided on this one.  Many people hate it, like i did.  Fangoria and Film Threat both gave it negative reviews.  

SALO and PINK FLAMINGOS count as the most disturbing movies I've ever seen, and I wouldn't give either of them a perfect score because of it.  I honestly don't see why being disturbing is praiseworthy.  I'm sure I would find TWO GIRLS ONE CUP disturbing, but I doubt I would give it a high rating.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Doggett on May 12, 2010, 06:39:54 PM
I'm waiting for the Asylum film re-imagining of this one...

"The Human Caterpillar"

"The Human Millipede"

 :teddyr:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 12, 2010, 06:58:16 PM
I'm waiting for the Asylum film re-imagining of this one...

"The Human Caterpillar"

"The Human Millipede"

 :teddyr:

There's not really much further you can go with multi-legged critters. Unless you want to do a "Boxing Helena" on the chick in the middle and make the Human Inchworm.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Mofo Rising on May 12, 2010, 09:13:03 PM
I'm waiting for the Asylum film re-imagining of this one...

"The Human Caterpillar"

"The Human Millipede"

 :teddyr:

There's not really much further you can go with multi-legged critters. Unless you want to do a "Boxing Helena" on the chick in the middle and make the Human Inchworm.

The Beast with Two Backs?


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 12, 2010, 09:23:49 PM
What I keep thinking of is Dr. Mephesto from South Park. "Here is a monkey with four asses."


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: retrorussell on May 13, 2010, 01:02:41 AM
In the tradition of lovely Troma titles like Killer Condom and Monsturd, we could call it..

Crapterpillar!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: inframan on May 14, 2010, 12:02:46 PM
On the big screen.  :buggedout:
http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=7305


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 14, 2010, 01:38:45 PM
On the big screen.  :buggedout:
[url]http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=7305[/url]


Interesting review. So, he started out with the Canine Centipede, then moved on to humans when it didn't work? That's kind of bass-ackward. But I suppose it's the least nutty thing he does.

I'm kind of surprised the triple Rottweiler didn't work. Dogs love following each other around sticking their noses in each other's butts, not to mention eating poo. You might have to look closely to see they're attached. :teddyr:

Would you believe I finally decided to see this thing, and I can't get it here. I'd express my annoyance, but any appropriate expletive I can think of would sound like a pun in this context. Anyway, I think I can wait for the DVD.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on May 14, 2010, 02:09:46 PM
You know after thinking long and hard about this, I have decided that if this guy had presented at a MAd Science Seminar, he wouldn't even have made itto the poster session.   

Dr. Berzerk: So Heinrich, tell us about this human caterpillar of yours?
Evil movie guy: Centipede, sir.  I plan to stick two co-ed and a Japanese tourist mouth-to-anus as a sort of pilot study for a bigger creature.
Dr. Berzerk: You don’t say, where will you do this?
EMG: At my suburban house in Holland, very near a popular night spot.
Dr. Berzerk: One of the most crowded and crime free countries in Europe you know. 
EMG: Really?
Dr. Berzerk: And how will this creature feed?
EMG: Well, Segment A will eat, and pas their waste to segment B, and so on.
Dr. Berzerk: Um you DID go to medical school Heinrich?
EMG: Yes sir.
Dr. Berzerk: And no one mentioned that human waste is a poor source of nutrition.
EMG: Ummmmm.
Dr. Berzerk: Oh look, the buffet is open!  Hurries away.



Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 14, 2010, 03:11:50 PM
The truly tragic thing is that there is a lot of fodder for jokes here. The premise and what passes for medical accuracy are ridiculous, and it sounds like the performances are way over the top. But it's also too dark and disturbing and outside the mainstream for most of that potential to be realised. I was just thinking how much I'd enjoy a Rifftrax of The Human Centipede, but I doubt they'd do one for this movie even if they wanted to (also questionable). I think the content's too strong for Mike, Kevin and Bill's brand of humour. But in every other way, it's crying out to be riffed.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on May 14, 2010, 08:29:55 PM
Andy,
 thats my thought too.  Its two steps away from 50's drive in fodder.   But they are big steps in messy territory. 
-Ed


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 14, 2010, 10:50:28 PM
For sure. Stranded travelers ending up at the remote house of a mad scientist just as he's looking for human guinea pigs. I keep thinking of Bride of the Monster. Aside from the one shocking and original idea, it is a 50s b-movie. But that one thing is sufficiently upsetting to enough people that trying to have some fun at this film's expense is likely to meet with a good deal of disapproval. I couldn't describe the plot in vague terms to my wife without being stopped before I even got to hinting at how the people were joined.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 16, 2010, 11:32:50 PM
OK, I was finally able to see it, and it was not that bad. I think most of the horror is in imagining what the characters are going through, and I'd already done that.

I was surprised at how much I was laughing, both at the dark humour and some of the stuff that was played straight, but just came off as goofy and over the top. It actually blunts a good deal of the horror when the front end of the centipede is constantly yelling at the doctor in Japanese, and the doctor is carrying on like a kid with a new toy.

Likewise, the scene where... uhhhh... the food makes it's second of three stops... was not bad at all. You can't see anything, and I was distracted by the stream of subtitled apologies from the front guy, and the doctor jumping up and down excitedly and yelling "Feed her!" That was something that made the eeeevil doctor come off as less menacing, in spite of the over-the-top creepiness he put into the role - he didn't seem particularly sadistic, just completely nuts. A lot of the time, it seems like he's expecting his victims to be impressed, maybe even proud to be included in his great experiment. He's made something really cool (his entire motivation really), and he just doesn't get why everybody else has got to go and spoil it.

And now I have no doubt that the chick in the middle is going to be back in the sequel. In the end, it seemed fairly certain she would be rescued eventually, and she was the one who had been finding her inner strength all the way through and keeping a level head (like she had any choice but to keep her head level  :teddyr:). From the way the operation was explained, it should be easy to reverse, leaving her with facial scars in the shape of an enormous evil grin. Or maybe it's more of a s**t-eating grin. I can see her coming back in a more heroic capacity, perhaps as a vigilante or even working with the authorities. I can't see them not having Dieter Laser in the sequel, since he was the best thing about this movie, but there was nothing ambiguous about his death, even if his glassy dead stare did look just like his glassy alive stare. But where bizarre and improbable medical experiments are concerned, not to mention cheesy sequels, you never know.

I don't think I'll watch The Human Centipede again, but it was OK.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Trevor on May 18, 2010, 03:34:39 AM
Where I come from, a centipede or millipede is called a songololo (pronounced song a lo lo) so this film's Afrikaans title would be Kak Songololo.*

*Kak is a rude Afrikaans term for #2.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Celx on May 22, 2010, 11:24:06 AM
Everybody loves shock value no?
That movie is something I won't be watching though, I like a little more substance in my trash...


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on May 25, 2010, 05:37:36 PM
 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/human-centipede-game/ (http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/human-centipede-game/)


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: The Gravekeeper on May 26, 2010, 06:13:13 PM
I might rent it sometime. That claim that it's "medically accurate" just cracks me up, though. I mean, traces of feces in food are enough to give people e-coli. Eating actual turds would probably kill a person. Even if they somehow didn't get a really nasty infection from the surgery or surviving solely on crap, there's still the fact that without any real sustenance everyone except the person in front would starve to death if they didn't die of dehydration first. Even worse, that would naturally result in one of the members of the human centipede dying. Y'know, so that someone (or someones) would have a corpse sewn to them. Ewwwww.

That took me, what, 2 minutes to think up exactly why, on purely biological terms, not ethical, the good doctor is an idiot for undertaking that experiment.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: inframan on June 08, 2010, 10:48:21 AM
http://blog.originalalamo.com/2010/06/01/projectionist-goes-totally-insane-gets-human-centipede-tattoo/ (http://blog.originalalamo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/dakota-300x225.jpg)


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on June 08, 2010, 12:55:15 PM
Of all the images to get, he gets the cheesy diagram from the slide show. :bouncegiggle:

I just read that two of the actors will be coming back in the sequel. Front and rear are signed on to reprise their roles, which is weird, since they both appeared quite dead at the end. No word on whether the middle girl is coming back, or whether the doctor gets resurrected somehow. Those I would have taken as given, so naturally it`s a big secret.

Not much on what is going to be in the sequel, besides more people sucking ass. All I`ve heard is that it will be more graphic, showing more of the blood and s**t. Yay. :lookingup:

I thought the one thing this movie had going for it, aside from Dieter Laser and his creepy performance, was that it opted not to go for cheap gross-outs, keeping the visuals fairly sterile and letting our imaginations do the work. I think it handled the subject matter about as well as a horror movie could. Faint praise, I know, but it was about as tasteful and artistic as a movie about three people sewn ass-to-mouth could be. Again, not saying much.

I actually didn`t mind Human Centipede, and kind of liked it. The doctor and his insane antics seemed to take the edge off every really disturbing scene, and I tended to giggle more than anything. For me, it overshot horror and went straight into camp. I hope the sequel keeps that and doesn`t turn into Twelve Girls, One Cup.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: The Burgomaster on October 20, 2010, 02:29:49 PM
I ordered the DVD yesterday.   :teddyr:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Skull on October 20, 2010, 03:08:03 PM
OK, here's my review of HUMAN CENTIPEDE, released to badmovies.org readers first:


There’s something in Hollywood that’s called a “high concept.”  It doesn’t mean what you probably think it means.  It refers to a plot hook that is so simple it can be compellingly summarized in a single sentence, like “a mad doctor turns three people into a human centipede.”  People will buy tickets to see it based on that easily digestible premise, so filmmakers can fill the remainder of the movie with whatever supporting crap they need to, just so long as it pads the film out to feature length.  The Human Centipede is a perfect example of a high concept horror film.  People are seduced into buying a ticket by the idea of seeing a human centipede, never minding the fact that they won’t see anything in the movie they didn’t already imagine when they heard the one sentence summary.  After watching the two minute trailer, it seemed like I knew everything that was going to happen in the film, so I was curious to see how director Tom Six would fill up the remaining 88 minutes.   The results of my study follow.  (Note: there aren’t really any spoilers in the following description, as there’s not enough plot to spoil).

    * HORROR MOVIE SETUP WE’VE SEEN 1,000 TIMES BEFORE:  Two hot, ditzy American tourists in Holland put on too much eye makeup, sensing that it will make them look cool, sexy and vulnerable when it smears in the rain after their caught in a downpour after their car breaks down late at night in a spooky woods and they have to walk to an isolated ranch style home where a doctor who looks like a Dutch Christopher Walken with acne scars serves them a drugged drink.  There is actually one valuable lesson to be learned in this segment: if you’re on a deserted road and find you have to rush into the woods to use the bathroom, don’t do your business right in front of the parked car of the only homicidal maniac to be found in a twenty five kilometer radius. 20 minutes.
    * RECOGNITION OF THE HORROR THAT’S ABOUT TO BEFALL THEM:  The dastardly villain proves he’s willing to go to any lengths in his villainy.  Recapitulating the trailer in case the girls didn’t catch it on YouTube, he then shows his helpless victims a helpful slideshow of the horrors he’s about to inflict upon them.  15 minutes.
    * FALSE HOPE 1: THE HEROINE ESCAPES!:  Realizing that there’s still a lot of time to fill up, the villain turns his back for a split second to allow the heroine to escape.  The villain gets more character development when he proves his dastardliness by refusing to let the girl go, even though she pleads with him.  Realizing there’s still a lot of time to fill up, the heroine relies on her ditziness and refuses to do the one sane thing anyone in her situation would do: run away as fast as possible and come back later with help for her friends.  10 minutes.
    * THE HORROR ABOUT TO BEFALL THEM BEFALLS THEM: Surgical tooth removal and buttock-flap creation, not as grisly as you might imagine.  Spooky music.  The human centipede is revealed!  5 minutes.

The movie has now achieved its purpose, but there’s still a ways to go.  So we get:

    * THE ACTUAL HORROR OF THE HORROR THAT BEFELL THEM DAWNS ON THEM: The implications of life as a human centipede are fully explored.  The evil doctor trains the human centipede to walk, fetch the morning paper, and eat from a dog bowl.  The story briefly and distastefully touches upon the elimination issue that was probably the first thing that came to your mind when you heard the premise.  The two girls who make up the second and third segments never fully adjust to life as a human centipede; just as they never stopped babbling in their pre-human centipede days, they never stop sobbing for the rest of the movie.  Ladies, I’m sure that daily life as a human centipede is hard, but at some point you just have to suck it up and stop whining.  The fact that their sobs are muffled by the buttocks of the segment ahead of them really doesn’t make it any less annoying.  15 minutes.
    * FALSE HOPE 2: THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE ESCAPES!:  The authorities start sniffing around to investigate all the mysterious disappearances.  This sets up a hope that everything will turn out alright.  This is intended to create suspense.  The human centipede takes advantage of the situation and escapes, sobbing all the while!  The human centipede briefly gets the upper hand but chivalrously decides not to take the doctor’s life or keep the precious weapon it found.  15 minutes.
    * CLIMAX:  The detectives forget their detective training, thus risking their lives, at crucial moments.  The saga of the human centipede takes an unexpected turn.  Dumb, but unexpected.  The ending is supposed to be a downer, but really, the authorities will arrive in a few hours, and how hard can human centipede reversal surgery actually be? 10 minutes.

So, the answer to the question of how director Tom Six would pad the film to fill up the extra 88 minutes of screentime turns out to be an ingenious and efficient one: he relies on tried and true horror movie formulas and clichés. The full movie is no improvement on the trailer, but it is 45 times longer. Now that I think back on it, the 2 minute trailer may have been padded, as well.


It looks like a no surpriser for me, I kind of guess what was going to happen by looking at the trailer and your summery confirmed 90% of what I was thinking.

Actually the 10% would be too cleaver for this movie. (I’d picture the psycho as a Dr. Phibes or Montag the Magnificent [Wizard of Gore] and his logic… well you can guess… Revenge on such and such characters so they are forced to eat poop ) very simple and very effective…

Cool at least I don’t have to waste my time watching a movie about a silly joke [from what I understand the concept is based upon a sick joke]

:)


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Mr. DS on October 20, 2010, 08:29:29 PM
I have heard much fanfare about this and will probably watch it soon.  The ATM thing just makes me laugh thinking about how it made it into film.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Skull on October 21, 2010, 06:10:10 AM
I have heard much fanfare about this and will probably watch it soon.  The ATM thing just makes me laugh thinking about how it made it into film.

I just think it funny how the movie makers think this is such an original idea.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Raffine on October 21, 2010, 06:19:33 PM
Roger Ebert's summary of the film deserves repeating:

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.

The rest of his review is quite funny, with lines like: In the film's last half, the two actresses don't scream at all, if you follow me.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: InformationGeek on October 21, 2010, 08:24:14 PM
I'm not going to watch this movie.  I already have too much a bad mental image with this movie already.  The only reason I am commenting now is that I just saw the results on Spike TV's Scream Awards, apparently Human Centipede won for Most Memorable Mutilation.  Can't argue that...


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Skull on October 22, 2010, 02:04:01 AM
I'm not going to watch this movie.  I already have too much a bad mental image with this movie already.  The only reason I am commenting now is that I just saw the results on Spike TV's Scream Awards, apparently Human Centipede won for Most Memorable Mutilation.  Can't argue that...

Most Memorable Mutilation? so what are the other past winners [or should I be looking for this up]..

I would watch this movie if the character was like Dr. Phibes... although my vision would be much worse... I'll call my Dr. Phibes as Dr. P.

Dr. P is angry with Mr. Lawyer. "Oh your a worm, you, your secretary and your assistant." Dr. P writes something onto a brass display sign while smiling at his creation.  Dr. P has severed the arms and legs from his three victims and connecting the assisntant's face into the butt of the secretary and the lawyer's face into the butt of the assistant. "Squirm, like the worm you are." Dr. P says as he leaves his creation in a cell in a zoo. And written on the brass display about Lemur's is "The Human Worm."



Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on October 22, 2010, 05:19:27 AM
The portrayal of the doctor was what I liked most about The Human Centipede. The trailer shows him as a very dark and menacing character, which he is, some of the time. I was surprised by just what a funny character he turned out to be. Joining three people together seemed to be as much about replacing a dead pet as anything else. The doc was very fond of his "three dog."

I found a lot of the more disturbing aspects of the movie were tempered by Dr. Heiter's often comical disconnection from reality - training the human centipede to fetch the paper, pleading with his victims not to scream and sob so much because they're keeping him awake, stuff like that. The dreaded scene where the guy in front finally has to pinch one off actually had me laughing. It was certainly disturbing to watch the middle girl choking down some unseen nastiness being forced into her mouth, but consider that it happened outside, in the middle of a dog training session, and the front guy spends the whole time apologizing in Japanese, while the doctor, complete with white coat, jackboots, sunglasses and riding crop, does an excited marionette dance around them, yelling stuff like "Feed her! Yeah! Swallow it, b***h!" Dieter Laser goes so far over the top at times that it becomes seriously funny. He's menacing, he's psychotic, he's sadistic, but Dr. Heiter is also a complete doofus at times, and totally oblivious to the suffering he's causing. It's almost as if he expects his victims to be as enthusiastic about the project as he is.

For me, a sinister Dr. Phibes-like portrayal would have spoiled it.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on October 22, 2010, 02:33:52 PM
Here we go again. I get the feeling Sixx is going for a campier sequel, as well as a grosser one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmPJzLmGdI&feature=youtube_gdata


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Ash on November 16, 2010, 04:53:53 PM
Finally saw this last night and loved it!  I had to keep watching to see what would happen next.
Netflix now has this available for instant streaming so be sure to add it to your instant queue if you haven't seen it yet.

Quote
The portrayal of the doctor was what I liked most about The Human Centipede. The trailer shows him as a very dark and menacing character, which he is, some of the time. I was surprised by just what a funny character he turned out to be.

Agreed. 
The doctor was the best part of the film.

I'm giving it 3.5 out of 4 stars and a big  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: BTM on November 18, 2010, 08:52:21 AM
Looks like the doctor is based on Josef Mengele, who I'm sure inspired the story you read.

So, what was the point of sewing together three people end to end? Was there a scientific goal, or did it just give him a perverted thrill?


On TV Tropes they have a term for this: For The Evulz.  It's when a villain does s**t just because, well, they're bastards. 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForTheEvulz (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForTheEvulz)

That being said, I don't have an intention of watching this film.  I've never been a fan of the "let's watch people get tortured for no reason" type movies in any event, but this just seem particularly gross and outlandish.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on November 18, 2010, 09:40:00 AM
Heiter seems to be doing it more for the fun than because he's evil, although fun isn't quite the right word either. He's got a bit of a God complex, not to mention a serious obsession with conjoined twins, and a streak of sadism (you can see he gets off on some of the violence and killing), sociopathy, misanthropy, misogyny, and possibly even some kind of scat fetish, but overall, his attitude toward his creation is that it's just so freaking cool. Heiter is like one of those guys who takes a perfectly good car and mods it into some weird novelty vehicle for no other reason than he has the technical know-how and wants to make himself a really awesome toy. He's a big kid with a medical degree and a whole lot of German efficiency.

Ironically, he's made something that manages to be impressive, even though it totally sucks *ss. :teddyr:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: The Burgomaster on November 20, 2010, 07:48:00 AM
I finally watched my copy last night and found it to be entertaining (in a sick, twisted way of course).  However, I did think the "post operation" part was too long (about half the movie) . . . they should have had more of a suspenseful build up to/through the operation and then made the "post op" parts run for about 20 minutes.  I could see them editing about 15 minutes out of this movie and the movie would not suffer by doing so.  Otherwise, I'm happy with my purchase!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Mr. DS on November 22, 2010, 08:23:44 PM
Its on Netflix streaming!!! Watching it now...I'll post some time later when I'm done with it.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Mr. DS on November 22, 2010, 10:15:47 PM
One hour and a half later...possible spoilers...

I kind of echo what Rev is talking about earlier in the thread.  Perhaps I've seen one too many violent films or maybe I'm just desensitized but I rarely find myself shocked by anything anymore in the realm of movies.  Don't get me wrong, the fact they were able to pull this off as a plot deserves kudos.  That and they were bold enough to use a concept like surgical ATM (figure it out).  But I did find this film highly predictable as many films in the past decade or two.  Also, and yep you can call me a sadist, I was saddened it wasn't more graphic.  I would have been interested to see more of the surgery itself.  And although the "feeding scene" was funny in a dark way,  I thought it should have been way over the top.  Have the front guy grunting like a madman and the middle girl making loud gagging noises.  I also would have loved to see the front or back rip away.  Yeah...I'm a sick man at times.  :bluesad:

Might I just say I could have cared less about the fodder.  Perhaps instead spending time on the multiple false scares, allow us to get to know them and say like them better.  That way we feel twice as bad for their character when they are surgically joined up.  All we get are two Paris Hilton sorority b!tches who are frankly as dumb as a post.  First off, they're travelling in Germany without a clue of where they're going...at night no less.  Then they leave a trail of stupidity all the way up until they're eating sh!t...quite literally.  

Oh well, its by far not the worst film I've seen but I think I'd only watch parts of it when it comes to re-watch value.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Skull on November 23, 2010, 02:38:36 PM
Its on Netflix streaming!!! Watching it now...I'll post some time later when I'm done with it.

lol... maybe oneday we'll watch this; although so far nobody is saying anything that I cannot imagine... and the graphic pics look very silly, like a face taped to underpants, and the girls facial expression is expecting a fart...

[Actually the girls facial expression does reminds me of a silly porn trailer I've seen from fartbrazil.com (please note do not check this website out at work or with children)]

The only thing I'm curious is when Scary Movie (or such) will make a joke out of this... [I would like to see that]... :)


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on November 23, 2010, 03:02:34 PM
Don't know if it's mainstream enough for a Scary Movie type of parody, although it certainly does have plenty of spoofing potential.

Come to think of it, I'd be surprised if somebody doesn't base at least one porno movie on it.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Skull on November 23, 2010, 04:03:20 PM
Don't know if it's mainstream enough for a Scary Movie type of parody, although it certainly does have plenty of spoofing potential.

Come to think of it, I'd be surprised if somebody doesn't base at least one porno movie on it.

lol... the movie is free on netflix... how much more mainstream does it need?

On the other hand; how can anybody not find the idea of a Human Centipede funny? Even if they are spoofing "The Fly" and three people in a matter transportation is turned into a Human Centipede...  :bouncegiggle:

Oh this is golden!!!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Mr. DS on November 25, 2010, 09:01:17 PM
Eventually I may actually review this but I'll have to dedicate some time to it. 


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: 3mnkids on November 28, 2010, 08:49:57 AM
I finally broke down and watched this last night and I gotta say... I liked it.   :thumbup:   I didnt really find it that disturbing   :buggedout:  The only part I thought was really nasty was after the guy eats(if you've seen it you dont need me to say what happens) Dieter Laser as Dr. Heiter was brilliant and the one thing, IMO, that kept the movie from being a ridiculous piece of crap.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on November 28, 2010, 08:56:41 AM
Comcast is offering this one right this minute as an On Demand selection.
It does look disgusting and worthless (same goes for Comcast), but I'm oddly intrigued...

Say no more about Comcast. My mom has it and it's overpriced, and you have to practically put it in a blender for their tech support folks to understand what you're saying when a problem comes up.  I'm a DirecTV man myself.

Is the sequel gonna be HUMAN MILLIPEDE?

Either that or a live-action human version of Atari's Centipede   :buggedout:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on November 28, 2010, 09:24:47 AM
Dieter Laser as Dr. Heiter was brilliant and the one thing, IMO, that kept the movie from being a ridiculous piece of crap.

When I think of the best parts of the movie, they all involve Heiter, and nearly all involve a great line delivery by Laser.

"You are....the middle piece!"

"Feed her! Swallow it, b**ch!"

"Eye for eye. Tooth for tooth."

And of course, the slide show, Heiter begging for a good night's sleep, and the dog training scenes.

Laser just made that movie. That's why I'm a little wary of the sequel, with Heiter dead and Tom Sixx promising to pull out all the stops, in terms of gross and disturbing. I'm expecting something more overtly campy, in the vein of Reanimator, but unless Laser is involved, it's not necessarily going to have what made the first movie work for me.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Doggett on November 30, 2010, 06:12:00 AM
Andy, your love for this thread does you proud.

If you were me, this thread would be your Elvira !  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on November 30, 2010, 06:30:22 AM
What is really interesting is that in the thread, I've gone from being appalled by the whole idea to actually being a fan of the movie.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Jed Siple on November 30, 2010, 03:18:58 PM
Just watched this one.  F***ed up little movie, but not nearly as disturbing as people make it out to be.  Needed more character development, though.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: onionhead on December 12, 2010, 11:59:44 AM
I caught this last night on Projet-free-tv, basically a Frankenstein for the gross-out audience.  It was less gross-out, however, than disturbing, and while "medically accurate" the whole concept is doomed as many posters have pointed out.  Do-do is a waste product, and therefore contains little nutrients, and Hellooo:  E Coli, Doctor Mengele!  I haven't read much about the sequel, except that the centipede has a 12-segmented concept.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: indianasmith on December 20, 2010, 01:15:03 AM
OK, OK, I FINALLY broke down and saw this movie.  Of course, reading this thread had given away all the key points in the plot, but it was still a deeply disturbing, sick, and at the same time oddly enjoyable experience.  No matter how bad my own personal problems might be, I don't have nearly as much wrong with me as whoever came up with THIS concept! :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on December 20, 2010, 09:42:13 AM
a deeply disturbing, sick, and at the same time oddly enjoyable experience.

That sums it up just about perfectly.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Doggett on December 20, 2010, 11:07:00 PM
Sooner or later, Andy is just gonna marry this thread.

 :teddyr:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on December 21, 2010, 09:35:32 AM
Sooner or later, Andy is just gonna marry this thread.

 :teddyr:

 :question:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: mrgb46 on March 22, 2011, 10:05:16 PM
I was surprised it wasn't as gory or gross as I thought it would be,but it was creepy(just the thought of what the dr. was doing) and suspenseful.I'd rather watch this than all of those SAW sequels..I hear the director of this is planning on making a sequel..Have to wait and see..


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: kakihara on March 23, 2011, 06:50:46 PM
hello everyone! i have to say that i love this movie! i really do! ill admit the reason that i wanted to watch it was ATM thing. it really sounds disgusting, how could someone make a movie about that?!! but, its really nowhere near as gory or deprived as you would think. thats what i like about the movie, its the idea thats so freakin disturbing. though there are some scenes that are stomach turning. this movie really gets a reaction out of people, most refuse to watch it. theres really not much to the movie, just kind of a cheap thrill. i thought the doctor was perfect for the role he played, and the ending was really sad and brilliant because it took its time. hearing that girl whimper and cry as the camara zoomed out was one the most messed up endings i have scene. what a horrible way to go. well, thats my opion.  ill admit that it is a horrible movie. but not for the reason everyone thinks. 


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Archivist on March 26, 2011, 03:27:32 AM
You know, I am too squeamish to watch many of the movies talked about here.  I balked at the Saw series, Hostel and the like just made me run away, and I figured I'd never watch that movie with Samuel Jackson 'Unthinkable' or whatever it was called.  And this avoidance is always based on previews or descriptions.  But out of morbid curiosity, I watched the trailer for Human Centipede, and I find it much more bizarre than gross.  I mean, who can take something like this seriously?  I'd be waiting for the doctor to feed the first segment garlic pizza and laxatives.  Doesn't mean I'm going to watch that movie, though!  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: bob on March 26, 2011, 10:15:45 AM
This is on the short list of films I refuse to ever see.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Raffine on April 27, 2011, 09:58:28 PM
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/South-Park-Human-Centipede.jpg)
Asian Guy: Oh, what should I eat? Vanilla custard or cuttlefish and asparagus?
Kyle (muffled): Vanilla custard! Vanilla custard!
Asian Guy: OK! Cuttlefish and asparagus it is!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: JayJayM12 on April 28, 2011, 11:04:32 AM
([url]http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/South-Park-Human-Centipede.jpg[/url])
Asian Guy: Oh, what should I eat? Vanilla custard or cuttlefish and asparagus?
Kyle (muffled): Vanilla custard! Vanilla custard!
Asian Guy: OK! Cuttlefish and asparagus it is!


Human CentIpad was brilliant!  Although, I have to admit that I laughed harder at the Cartman storyline ("Can I at least borrow some of your lipstick mom? Because I at least want to look pretty the next time you f**k me."), but the whole episode was great...


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: AndyC on April 28, 2011, 11:58:28 AM
Cartman: "It does email and web browsing and it sh*ts in Kyle's mouth? This is the best thing that has ever been invented!"


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: HorrorofBob on April 28, 2011, 04:51:54 PM
 :hot:Human Centipede is one movie that I will never see, period.  I have Hostel II and it was repulsive but one can get used to it after a few viewings but HC is just about as repugnant a concept for a film as can be imagined.
I hope that the sequel (yes, there is always a sequel) is just as objectionable so I won't go to see it, either.
Cheers to all those who like it. :cheers:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: kakihara on April 28, 2011, 06:39:43 PM
wow, i thought this thread was dead. i suggest every one of you watch this movie even if youve already seen it. because you are all sick little monkeys and you know it! better yet, watch it with another unsuspecting person, just to see the look on their face when they realize whats going on is priceless. its not that bad though, you will not see any poo in this movie. this is the highest form of movie making, think about it, most movies are crap anyway. how many 100 million dollar turds have you seen? this movie just cuts out all the b.s. character and story development and gets to the point. ATM baby, yeah!


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Gst0395 on March 01, 2014, 07:25:48 AM
I watched both Human Centipede films back-to-back a couple of nights ago, in their fully uncut forms. Messed up to say the least, but an interesting experience nevertheless. :lookingup:


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: RCMerchant on March 01, 2014, 08:13:19 AM
I watched half of part 2-I got bored and watched a documentary about Jimi Hendrix on Net Flix.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Javakoala on March 01, 2014, 10:48:11 AM
I watched half of part 2-I got bored and watched a documentary about Jimi Hendrix on Net Flix.

Sounds like you made the better choice, RC. Jimi Hendrix is still a guitar god, in my world at least.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: Gst0395 on March 01, 2014, 06:02:33 PM
I watched half of part 2-I got bored and watched a documentary about Jimi Hendrix on Net Flix.

Sounds like you made the better choice, RC. Jimi Hendrix is still a guitar god, in my world at least.
Regarding both parts of HC2, I actually thought the first was better because it had SOME development of characters. As much as a guilty pleasure the second half was, it just seemed so pointlessly violent. One torturous and depraved act after another, though I did enjoy seeing that tattooed douchebag (who was playing his music too loud) gets his comeuppance.


Title: Re: Human Centipede
Post by: BluEyeDevil on March 02, 2014, 08:39:14 AM
Saw this movie on New Year's Eve one year. Due to drunkenness, I am not sure which year it was, but it was most likely an appropriate metaphor because chances are I ended up eating s**t the whole year. cheers  :cheers: