The Human Centipede *WARNING: disturbing trailer*

The Volt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmTv2nqTHo

Was linked to this by a friend. Apparently has won loads of awards at various film festivals. Has anyone seen it? Any thoughts?

DazMarz

Looks like the kind of disturbing, sick stuff I'd be well into!!!:D

I'm not too sure, but from the looks of the trailer, it could also be hammily over-acted and the mad-doctor schtick is a very well worn role.

Could be an excellent horror... could be another dumb flop. But if it's won loads of awards, maybe it wouldn't be all that bad?

Hank_Jones

I suppose the fact that it is something different is good.
Personally I would think that it looks badly made, but that's just me.

Was kind of hoping that it going to be a film about some evil mutation,
that is a cross breed between a human and a centipede.

The Volt

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I suppose the fact that it is something different is good.
Personally I would think that it looks badly made, but that's just me.

Was kind of hoping that it going to be a film about some evil mutation,
that is a cross breed between a human and a centipede.

That's what I was expecting, something like The Fly but the quick shot of them all connected together at the end of the trailer really freaked me out!

robby^5

So they eat each others poop?

The Volt

robby^5 wrote: »

So they eat each others poop?

It would appear that way. According to the wiki page it's based loosely on ideas on Nazi medical experiments that existed during WWII. Furthermore that loads of research and discussions were held with surgeons and they tried to make it as medically possible as they could.

madrab

not a movie for date night then!

Corkfeen

Love the fact they say at end of trailer "100 medically accurate.." The acting seems to be terrible though from what i've seen.:rolleyes: By the title i'm guessing they want a sequel...

Skerries

The human Panda - made out of black and white people

D-Generate

Skerries wrote: »

The human Panda - made out of black and white people

Asylum Productions will come out with this gem I bet!

But wow this film looks utter tripe! I thought it was a joke at first. That being said, I am not one to pass up on the chance to watch one girl eat another girls ass so time to go book a ticket to see it!

PirateShampoo

Is this a piss take?

In the final scene in that clip they have there heads selotaped to each others ass's.

fitz0

They've been looking at this over on io9.com for a while now. I'll probably watch it eventually. Haven't seen a good mad scientist film in ages.

Galvasean

Heard a lot about this, but after viewing the trailer, it looks a bit naf.

Saw it awhile back and was far from impressed. I expected so much more after all the hype.

MrStuffins

Looks brutal!

As in rubbish..... really rubbish

karma_

I think the message is clear, Women should really learn how to change a wheel.

Exclamation Marc

Absolute muck. Just looks to be disturbing for the sake of being disturbing really.

rgt320q

FireballPitcher wrote: »

Absolute muck. Just looks to be disturbing for the sake of being disturbing really.

In fairness though, the concept does seem pretty damn disturbing.

I dunno, I've seen a lot of the nasties like Salo and Cannibal Holocaust, nothing really fazes me anymore, but there's something about this movie that has me a little, shall we say, uneasy. Probably a case of 'runaway imagination'. I most likely won't bother watching it in the end but from having read spoilers, the last scene does sound rather horrifying.

johnny_ultimate

Trailer looks pretty naff, I must say. I actually don't feel any need to see the film after watching it! Bar the slighty disturbed central concept, is this film just another slasher movie, albeit one which concludes in anuses being sewn to mouths? Looks pretty cheap and overblown otherwise.

phasers

EEWWWWW :eek:

faceman

FFS. Why do these films always feature in Europe? And why does the car have to break down?

The only thing disturbing about this film is that film makers lacked any shred of innovation and originality to make the film in the first place

ScumLord

faceman wrote: »

FFS. Why do these films always feature in Europe? And why does the car have to break down?

The American film industry seems determined to scare young Americans away from Europe, they're afraid they might catch the communism..

Kess73

Seen it. It has way more meh moments than anything else. Has a few scenes that are visually uncomfortable, but missed out on being a genuinely good and idsturbing film by some distance.

I imagine the sequel will just take the same concept and just enlarge it, and by the third film it will be the "centipede" people that become the bad guys and not the victims.

AnonoBoy

But how could it be terrible it's "medically accurate"???

PirateShampoo

AnonoBoy wrote: »

But how could it be terrible it's "medically accurate"???

Well in theory you could do it once the 2 rear people are supplemented with a iv drip giving extra nutrients.

MrStuffins

If someone explained this movie to you, you'd think it was a movie from the South Park universe.

They stumble upon this guy who likes to sew people's faces to other peoples asses!

They also eat the person's feces!

DEY TUK ARR JOOOOOOBS!!

geoffraffe

There's a loud noise in the car. Cut to the wheel, which is flat. Surprised? Didn't think so. The girls run through a forrest in the rain to arrive at a strange door dripping wet, with their t-shirts stuck to them. (Seriously, who got paid to write this? A lot of copy and paste methinks). To top it all off the bloke sews their mouths to someone's ass??????

This could be so bad that's it's a cult classic. It has all the ingredients.

johnny_ultimate

While I still think the film looks like cack, you've really got to feel sorry for whoevers in the middle.

MrStuffins

geoffraffe wrote: »

There's a loud noise in the car. Cut to the wheel, which is flat. Surprised? Didn't think so. The girls run through a forrest in the rain to arrive at a strange door dripping wet, with their t-shirts stuck to them. (Seriously, who got paid to write this? A lot of copy and paste methinks). To top it all off the bloke sews their mouths to someone's ass??????

This could be so bad that's it's a cult classic. It has all the ingredients.

There's one ingredient... feces!

Duggy747

This is a scat-muncher's wet dream.

From Wiki:

On 19 October 2009 it was announced a sequel, titled The Human Centipede (Full Sequence) has been planned for cinemas in 2010. 'Full Sequence' will supposedly include a centipede composed of twelve individuals.[34] Six has said how it had always been his intention to make two Centipede films, with the first film existing to get his audience "used to the sick idea" in order that the second could be much more "nasty, with way more medical experiments" in a way that would have been "impossible" in the original, and would have "destroyed" any chance of the film being made.

razorblunt

That looks awful, don't see whats so scary about so something so dumbfounded, as another poster ponted out its like a South Park pisstake.

Valmont

***psychic forecast incoming***

***"It's 2020 and this summer we will have The Human Centipede IX hitting theatres nationwide"***

!

00112984

That looks f*ckin' brilliant!!
Good on the guy who's the "head" of the centipede.

GREAT. ACTING. TALENT
Evil surgeon
Two scantily clad ladies (they will be by the end anyway)

What's not to like?!

Mackman

Well i dont need to watch it now. Ive seen the whole story line in the trailer.

Pile of ****

Valmont

Mackman wrote: »

Well i dont need to watch it now. Ive seen the whole story line in the trailer.

True, they gave away far too much. If they left it at the mad surgeons plan then my curiosity may have gotten the better of me.

liah

Am I missing something? How could this possibly have been up for awards? Did I watch the right trailer..?

It's poorly filmed, the acting's rotten, the storyline's cliche.. unless it ends up being a cult classic it looks absolutely terrible.

"Disturbing" trailer my arse, there was nothing shocking or upsetting or anything about it at all. Unless by "disturbing" you mean "laughably bad."

Creature

Yeah I gotta say, going by the trailer, that looks more hilariously bad than disturbing.

baz909

after watching the trailer it reminds me of the scene from Clerks 2

"you never go @ss to mouth" !! ...

Exclamation Marc

liah wrote: »

Am I missing something? How could this possibly have been up for awards?

It has won awards at various horror festivals, which as I'm sure you can imagine, are held in slightly lower acclaim than "regular" awards.

liah

FireballPitcher wrote: »

It has won awards at various horror festivals, which as I'm sure you can imagine, are held in slightly lower acclaim than "regular" awards.

I don't see why horror films shouldn't stand up to "every day" standards tbh. I hate telling people my favourite genre is horror, because the immediate reaction is to think I like crap like The Grudge or Saw or something. Or that I mean solely silly stuff like Evil Dead. Nobody really knows about any truly quality (soundtrack, cinematography, acting, script) horror films, and it seems it's the only genre (aside from chick flicks) that can get away with releasing absolute tripe constantly.

I wish there was some kind of push to make better, legitimately quality horrors more freely available instead of just the rehashes and abominations Hollywood keeps dishing out-- stuff like Tale of Two Sisters and The Devil's Backbone that never had a hope here. Suppose that has a lot to do with the lack of acceptance in general towards subtitled films, but it's an awful shame to not experience films like those solely because of a few bits of text, or the idea in your head that horror's all gore and stupidity.

fcussen

liah wrote: »

I don't see why horror films shouldn't stand up to "every day" standards tbh. I hate telling people my favourite genre is horror, because the immediate reaction is to think I like crap like The Grudge or Saw or something. Or that I mean solely silly stuff like Evil Dead. Nobody really knows about any truly quality (soundtrack, cinematography, acting, script) horror films, and it seems it's the only genre (aside from chick flicks) that can get away with releasing absolute tripe constantly.

I wish there was some kind of push to make better, legitimately quality horrors more freely available instead of just the rehashes and abominations Hollywood keeps dishing out-- stuff like Tale of Two Sisters and The Devil's Backbone that never had a hope here. Suppose that has a lot to do with the lack of acceptance in general towards subtitled films, but it's an awful shame to not experience films like those solely because of a few bits of text, or the idea in your head that horror's all gore and stupidity.

I haven't actually seen this film but the outlandishness of the central concept seems to have an element of quality that puts it apart from the likes of Saw, even if the rest of it is just clichés. Maybe the filmmakers thought they couldn't get away with making a film about a human centipede unless it otherwise followed a tried and tested formula

David Cronenberg is considered the archetype of quality "intelligent" horror, but a lot of his earlier stuff is really schlocky and full of stuff that's there to tick the lowbrow boxes.

johnny_ultimate

liah wrote: »

I don't see why horror films shouldn't stand up to "every day" standards tbh. I hate telling people my favourite genre is horror, because the immediate reaction is to think I like crap like The Grudge or Saw or something. Or that I mean solely silly stuff like Evil Dead. Nobody really knows about any truly quality (soundtrack, cinematography, acting, script) horror films, and it seems it's the only genre (aside from chick flicks) that can get away with releasing absolute tripe constantly.

I wish there was some kind of push to make better, legitimately quality horrors more freely available instead of just the rehashes and abominations Hollywood keeps dishing out-- stuff like Tale of Two Sisters and The Devil's Backbone that never had a hope here. Suppose that has a lot to do with the lack of acceptance in general towards subtitled films, but it's an awful shame to not experience films like those solely because of a few bits of text, or the idea in your head that horror's all gore and stupidity.

I dunno, I'd feel a lot of the legitimately good horrors have done well over the last few years - stuff like the original Ring, Rec, The Orphanage and so on have been relatively successful for foreign releases. Problem is that a successful foreign film generally means a lot of similar but inferior dreck is pumped out to capitalise on the success. Look at Tartan Asian Extreme films. They released the successful likes of The Ring and The Eye (the quality of the latter is suspect, though) and despite the odd gem like Two Sisters there was an awful lot of crap, mostly involving appliances killing people. An awful lot of horror out there is generic cack, filtering out the good stuff - and there is quite a bit of good horror out there - is the tricky part.

I've been bored stupid by some bigger foreign horrors. Switchblade Romance and Them spring to mind as typical genre films that barely go beyond the tried and tested 'slasher in the woods/house' kind of films, and I personally don't feel that they should be applauded just for being French, or just for upping the gore level.

The best contemporary horror films are ones that up the tension, intelligence or scare level, such as Ringu, Martyrs or Rec. Others can do fine within genre conventions, with something like Drag Me to Hell being a fairly standard story done with tonnes of flair and energy. But then people try to copy success, and that is when people can label them 'genre films'. Blair Witch kicked off a point of view style (for diamonds like Rec, we get rubbish like Diary of the Dead), and Ringu started an 'appliance horror' subgenre, which plenty of others fell into. It are these imitators rather than the originals that give a lot of horror films such a generic reputation.

And then you have something like this Centipede film, which (judging by the trailer) follows a formula established by better films - dating all the way back to the still wonderfully intense Texas Chainsaw Massacre - and just tries to up the shock factor. A good horror film doesn't just follow a formula and get by with one or two token shocks. They build upon formulas, subvert them and surprise within genre conventions. The Human Centipede seems to have one good idea (actually, I'd barely even call it that) and has to fill 90 minutes around that.

Valmont

Did anyone notice the comment at the end: "100% Medically Accurate"

Hilarious!

Galvasean

I get the feeling this film is nowhere near as 'shocking' or 'disturbing' as it seems to think it is. They pretty much gave away the 'money shot' in the trailer and other than the mumbled, "Mmmm mmmhhhh!!!!" noises being made, which made me giggle in a sort of, "Holy crap, this is hilarious!" way, didn't do anything for me. PS: Glad I'm not the only one who thought of the "Ass to mouth" lines from Clerks2.

To me, it feels like the distributors got their hands on a poorly made (let's be honest the light and sound quality reminds me of a student movie) horror film and decided the only way to promote it was to keep telling people how 'sick, disturbing and shocking' it is until the idea sank in and people bought into it.

Valmont

Well no matter how bad it is, a human centipede is pretty sick. The clips of them all joined together are freaky.

Savman

It's a comedy right?

Zero-Cool

This looks like awesome in a can. I'll be like Kermit the Frog watching 2 girls 1 cup. "Yaaaaa eat the shiiiiit"

Basq

Just watching this now!

It really is Z Grade Entertainment.

The performances and dialogue almost feel like a porno that just went.. a bit.. too.. far! :eek:

The only reason I'm watching is I'm hoping it's gonna continue to wade into the "so bad, it's entertaining" territory!

EDIT: The doctor keeps reminding me of Willem Defoe.

"They'll be here und 20 minutes....


.. max-i-mum!"

the_monkey

How can this crap win awards ?

Otis Driftwood

Just watched this tonight.What a load of rubbish.Crappy acting,crappier dialogue,no gore,just a pile of pish from start to finish with a ridiculous ending.It wasnt even close to being disturbing.Its a movie purely designed to make people go ewwwwwww at the idea of it but it just fails miserably.

Basq

It was awful.. and to think on one of the other forums I frequent plenty of members thought this was a superior film to 'Martys' - no accounting for taste clearly!