The Human Centipede- Page 3

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/11/10 at 5:44pm

I'm sure as soon as I finish watching it on the 28th I'll be right back here with more perplexing questions.

[Luscious]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 7:29am

I doubt the gross out factor will surpass that of TAXIDERMIA, which I just saw this past weekend. I caught it on Netflix. It's a facinating, visually stunning and surprisingly compelling film, but definitely not for the squemish!

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 9:30am

I felt that way about Hostel - not for the squeamish either!

[tazber]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 11:55am

So, did anyone see it?

I read some more reviews on other websites.

What did my fellow gay horror fans think?

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 11:58am

I don't think I'm going to bother with this one, Taz. What I've seen and heard of it already is making me feel sick.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 11:59am

I'm a huge horror fan and even I don't want to see this. So he traps some people and tries to make a human centipede and then....what?

[tazber]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 12:07pm

I'm not sure Borstal, that's kind of what I want to find out.

I read on AICN (not Harry, but one of his contributors) that it pretty much has no purpose. But for a movie that "has no purpose" it's one of the best of the lot.
(whatever that means)


But I kind of feel that way about a lot of horror. I mean, what purpose does the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre have? It sorta just exists.

I will confess to being curious about this just because it seems so irredeemably horrific and yet people actually like it.

Updated On: 4/30/10 at 12:07 PM

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 12:21pm

The purpose of the original was to show the underbelly of Texas and American dead small towns in general. The baddies in that film were meat factory workers in a mill town that died when the meat factory shut down, leaving the characters with...little to do. It wasn't about nothing.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 12:32pm

well yea, you could construe a point about anything really.

I posted a review somewhere in this thread that said the movie's point was to hold up a mirror to our feelings of body disfigurement and examine why many people are uncomfortable when faced with the handicapped.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 12:33pm

The reviews have been wildly mixed so we'll see...

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 1:08pm

Maybe it is explained in the movie, but these two young girls didn't have cell phones to call for help?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 1:13pm

I thought CATS said he was going to see it on the 28th? Where is he with his review?

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 1:19pm

uncaged, they had iPhones and At&t sucked so strongly they couldn't get all the bars.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 11:06am

Glieberman (EW) pretty much sums up what I have been hearing from other reviewers:

There's a certain breed of horror-film junkie who craves the extreme (I know, I'm one of them), and the dosage of awesome ickiness has to keep getting upped. 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.'

In Germany, a stalled car strands two tourists (Ashley C. Williams and Ashlynn Yennie), who take refuge in the woodsy home of a local resident. His name is Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser), and he's a celebrity surgeon and secret psychopath who drugs the women and straps them into beds in his basement laboratory, where another victim already lies. He then explains that he plans to make all three of them part of a mad experiment in which he will surgically join them, mouth to rear end, to create a human centipede. Much of the film's 'entertainment value' rests on the sadistically outlandish performance of Dieter Laser, who's like Boris Karloff starring in a movie by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film itself, as staged by Dutch director Tom Six, is a fairly crafty piece of over-the-top suspense. By showing exactly what it promises to show, it lets us peer into a B-movie abyss. But unlike its obvious influence, the 1999 Japanese shocker Audition, The Human Centipede has no real-world echoes. It's an only-in-the-movies sick goof. B+


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[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 12:48pm

I don't think I could watch it. I still haven't seen Audition.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 1:13pm

AUDITION is the freakiest thing I've ever seen. Seeing it once was MORE than enough for me.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 1:19pm

I'm sort of scared to watch it.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 2:04pm

This movie may definitely have legs for the long run.Is it presumptuos to talk Academy Award here?

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 2:33pm

Look at Roxy! He's being witty!

Saw another trailer for it last night, at work. I feel the same way about most people here: What's the point of having a human centipede in your home? Is it going to be your slave? Servant? Maid? Ottoman?

And I don't get the point of busting out the kneecaps. Besides everything else, it just seems wrong.

And how many more sequences will there be?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 2:41pm

Thanks for the backhanded compliment.

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 2:46pm

You're welcome. :)

[strummergirl]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 4:39pm

There's a trilogy coming, I think.

Here's a liveblog from Mark Lisanti's viewing.
http://www.movieline.com/2010/04/post-6.php Updated On: 5/1/10 at 04:39 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 5:33pm

Why isn't it enough that he would want a Human Centipede in his house just for the hell of it? He's obviously insane. Isn't that enough? I don't need any more than that, but I'm easy to please.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 5:34pm

That blog was pretty funny!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 7:37pm

I can't help but think of the last film I did extra work on right before I left on tour. Heck, I remeber getting the phone call on set that I got the job on the tour.

I played a zombie, and we were surrounding this huge spider creature that looked like it was made from a lot of human body parts. A lot of legs put together to make a giant spider leg, etc.

I have no idea what the name of the film is and I haven't ever seen anything that looks like it.

But this film came closer to it than anything else.


I wonder what it was...