Is Human Centipede 2010's Most Barfiest Movie?
"You do it."
"No, you do it."
"I really think you should be the one covering it."
There is a game of Hot Potato that we've played at Movieline HQ over the past few months, and it has to do with a gross little movie called The Human Centipede.
If you were blessedly ignorant of this upcoming horror film, here's the synopsis:
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help they find only an isolated villa, whose mysterious owner, Dr Heiter, takes them in for the night. The next day they awake to find themselves in the basement, trapped in a terrifying makeshift hospital with another one of the doctor's abductees. Dr Heiter explains to the three of them that he is retired surgeon who had specialized in separating Siamese twins. However his three "patients" are not about to be separated, but joined together in a horrific operation. He plans to be the first to connect people, one to the next, via their gastric system, and in doing so bring to life his sick lifetime fantasy: 'the human centipede'.
Fun times, everyone! Distributor IFC promises that Human Centipede is a film that will divide audiences, but even before that, it's divided critics into two camps: those who'll see it, and those who feel like they have to scrub the existence of the film from their brains. As someone who was terrified merely to Google Image Search for a still to accompany this post, I would call myself the latter. Still, for the sake of you, the Movieline reader, I IM'd critic Dave White (who's already seen the film) to discuss it.
Kyle: So, Human Centipede.
Dave: Have you seen it?
Kyle: Not yet. I'm trying to summon the courage.
Dave: Well, I will say that it is awesome. Phil at New Beverly said he thought it was a comedy and badly made. I read it completely differently. It's surprisingly restrained and is definitely funny, until it's not. Then it becomes this exercise in the director saying, "What's the worst possible thing that could happen to this or that character right now?" and then going for it, so it ends up this superbleak hopelessness jam.
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If you love SAW & HOSTEL, you'll love HUMAN CENTIPEDE !!
Posted right before the end of lunch on a Monday! Excellent timing, Movieline!!
The real horror is when they go out for Mexican.
I wouldn't want to be on the back end of that deal...
what i want to know is if this will be getting the Criterion treatment per the IFC deal announced earlier this year?
I smell Oscar.
Oscar Mayer.
People shouldn't see Human Centipede not because it breaks taboos and boundaries, but because it's fuckin terrible.
I dunno, there seem to be many other ways to gastrically connect a few people. I think maybe there's something wrong with this doctor, no?
I saw The Human Centipede last year at Fantastic Fest
and I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The best horror film coming out in recent years.
And I am a huge horror fan. I mean it!
Oh big deal, gay porn has been connecting three people together for years.
The end of the trailer it states that it is "100% Medically Accurate." Must have received an endorsement from the AMA and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Wonder if my doctor should see it....
I wouldn't put my faith in an organization that supports sex change operations, since there is no such thing as a sex change, just a evil way to make money.
Would've laughed my ass off if my girlfriend weren't connected to it...
So what's worse Human Centipede or Centipede Terror? Human Centipede doctor connects people Centipede Terror people are cursed and start violently throwing up centipede's and other insects. I haven't see it but it's gotta be worse than Human Centipede at least it sounds like it.
Gives new meaning to BITE MY ASS, eh?
In the picture above ...is she going down on another girl?
So is the human centipede a metaphor for the way moronic torture porn
filmmakers shit out product, with fanboy critics at Fantastic Fest sucking up to their assholes, inhaling the "product" and then passing along the idiocy to their followers?
Ah, the eternal optimist. You are the saviour of our hope.
brilliant observation
it's way worst than SAW and Hostel put together i already know what happens in the movie and after i knew about ( I was at school when i knew about it) i went to the bathroom and threw up it was the most disgusting movie i have ever found out about.
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seriously saw is gruesome maybe not as much as hostel , but come on this is i dunno its on a whole new level it is literally jus6t absolutly beyond words something which will be remembered as a truly horrible film . i know this is what people said about saw and hostel etc but those dont particularly bother me , did it not shock you at the end i can tell your into thrilling gruesome horrors but did this not shock you not even the image at the concluding seconds ?
bj8995@live.co.uk if its quite alright i would like to know the ending , but i cant bring my self to watch it , if you could maybe email me if your bored or have any spare time ? much appreciated if possible , thanks in advance
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