Human Centipede

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This is great, I've been going up to people saying "I've found a film with the most disgusting premise for a film ever, ever. No seriously, I know when you hear that you usually just think 'yeah, whatever', but I genuinely mean it... It's sick. Ok? You're sure you want to hear it, alright then... *Explains* Told you".

Everyone has been disgusted and couldn't believe how sick it was... :( :p

It's disgusting to think that someone actually made a movie about it. :(
 
DampCat said:
Well aren't I special?

Discuss then, since you've seen it, why this film is a world away from tradtional shock and grotesque.
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No need to be so defensive, dude.

I was simply saying that jumping straight to hating it based on the premise alone is a bad idea. To quote :

DampCat said:
Ugh.

Shock and surprise to replace legitimate story and character development. Sounds like this film is going to be based on the same substance as the SIX Saw movies.

"We don't have any real plot, character or story to develop... so instead look at this sequence of unecessarily vile images with loud noises and flashing lights for 90 minutes. Look how gross it is. Isn't it gross? Isn't it? Aren't you shocked? Yeah, yeah you're shocked. Thanks for your money".
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Yeah, it's gross. Anyone can tell that from the logline, but you won't find any "Saw" like flashiness, loud noises, or genuine glee in violence here. "Human Centipede" is a much tighter, darker and involving piece of work. The main thing, which I guess I didn't mention previously, is that tonally it's crafted masterfully and so far from today's money-churning "torture porn" it's staggering. This isn't a "watch people get mutilated and chuck your popcorn about whilst talking loudly to your mates" "horror" film - it's genuinely riveting. Nobody deserves what the victims go through in this, which lends a big hand in having you empathise with them almost instantly. Most importantly, unlike the "Saw" movies (well, since the first three were finished), this isn't a film you'll stand up from at the end and walk away empty-headed.

The villain, Dr. Heiter, is amazing. Absolutely amazing. Completely bat**** crazy.

As far as gore goes, there are a few moments of sickening stuff, but to be honest the majority of it is rooted in suspense and actual horror at what these people are being put through, for example learning to walk in their new form.

Obviously the basic idea of the Centipede is enough to have people immediately paying attention to the film. It's just a pity that many, such as yourself, will draw their conclusions based on it also. I would seriously recommend having a look when it's eventually released. If you're also a horror fan you'll quickly realise that to lump this in with other cinematic displays of vapid grotesquery such as the appropriately-titled "Gurotesuku", the "Guinea Pig" series or "August Underground" and its sequel is a big, big mistake.

I'm just surprised that so many people seem turned off by a horror movie that might actually, you know, horrify them.

We all know the old adage about opinions, but I really wouldn't recommend skipping "The Human Centipede". If you don't feel you could stomach the idea behind it, I guess that's valid, but to draw strict conclusions out of a basic overview and simply avoid it for those reasons is, I think, a bad idea in this case.

Of course, if you see it and hate it, feel free to come back and call me a ****! :D




...as an aside, apparently the original idea came about due to something the director always said. When someone acted like a **** he'd say "I'd love to sew that guy to a trucker's ***hole." One day he said it, and someone turned round and said "You ought to make that into a movie!". So he did.
 
Pestilence said:
"torture porn"
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This term is thrown around too much though I feel. After watching Saw 2 and both the Hostel movies, I didn't really percieve any of the pornographic nature of the torture that everyone seems to describe. If anything the films were fairly lame and short when it came to the torture scenes and spent (it felt like) ages building towards them.

None of the films were particularly violent either. There was more glee to be had from the violence in, say, Reservoir Dogs than these so-called actual torture porn movies.
 
Chimerical said:
This term is thrown around too much though I feel. After watching Saw 2 and both the Hostel movies, I didn't really percieve any of the pornographic nature of the torture that everyone seems to describe. If anything the films were fairly lame and short when it came to the torture scenes and spent (it felt like) ages building towards them.

None of the films were particularly violent either. There was more glee to be had from the violence in, say, Reservoir Dogs than these so-called actual torture porn movies.
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I agree. The term itself seems to have become synonymous with films which merely present graphic torture/gore with tenuous (at best) legitimate requirement, so I use it in that sense. I don't particularly get the "porn" element, as even films which do have a sense of pride in displaying the gory goods or human suffering never really cross the line into attempting to elicit arousal from the viewer. Obviously the usage of "porn" in the phrase is meant in a different manner, but I don't care to dissect it as much like yourself it's something I don't care to use (or pay attention to) too often.
 
Pestilence said:
I agree. The term itself seems to have become synonymous with films which merely present graphic torture/gore with tenuous (at best) legitimate requirement, so I use it in that sense. I don't particularly get the "porn" element, as even films which do have a sense of pride in displaying the gory goods or human suffering never really cross the line into attempting to elicit arousal from the viewer. Obviously the usage of "porn" in the phrase is meant in a different manner, but I don't care to dissect it as much like yourself it's something I don't care to use (or pay attention to) too often.
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I concur.

Quite looking forward to seeing this Centipede movie now, whenever it comes out.
 
I honestly think that there must be a screw lose in the head of the person who would imagine and wrote this and needs to be looked at from a mental health perpective.
 
robgmun said:
I honestly think that there must be a screw lose in the head of the person who would imagine and wrote this and needs to be looked at from a mental health perpective.
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^^ thats true of most things though, i mean could the same argument be levelled against the writer of Lolita? that was not the first work he did of similar topic, could that have been a freudulin slip of the mind??!

what about saw?

did the creator of Battle Royale think about killing children all day?!
 
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