# "THe Human Centipede" - Who would go to see such vile trash? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898 "2009-10-23T20:05:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/1 "2009-10-23T20:05:39Z")
http ://film-book.com/human-centipede-sequence-clip/ The Human Centipede > [@](#): > > The Human Centipede [NSFW] Movie Buzz An underground horror flick receiving lots of buzz for pushing the envelope in “gross” is about a doctor attaching people face-to-ass to form a chain. Thus, ‘The Human Centipede’. Get it? Excuse me while I go throw up. If this doesn’t get the ‘EW’ tag, I won’t know what to think. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/2 "2009-10-23T22:56:48Z")
Me. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/3 "2009-10-23T23:13:47Z")
I’d probably at least try to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/4 "2009-10-23T23:26:57Z")
I doubt that I’ll ever see this movie, but I’m very tempted. [Body horror](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BodyHorror) is one of the few horror tropes that really, really gets to me. I can never figure out if I should be checking this stuff out further, or running away from it as fast as I can. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/5 "2009-10-23T23:31:51Z")
Reminds me of the tale of the guy who fed a duck some food on the end of a long piece of string, waited for it to come out the other end, tied on more food, then fed it to another duck, etc. One imagines the person on the receiving end of twice-digested poo would wither quite quickly. In the small amount of reading I’ve done about this sickery, it’s apparently billed as a “comedy” and is also the first in an intended trilogy. Sheesh. Will watch it if it gets good reviews… ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/6 "2009-10-23T23:50:49Z")
I never understood the appeal of horror/gore movies. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/7 "2009-10-23T23:56:03Z")
I’d watch it maybe if my friends were there to mock it. You’ve never had “Bad Movie Nights”? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/8 "2009-10-24T00:24:24Z")
This looks disgusting and creepy as Hell. I just added it to my Netflix queue. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/9 "2009-10-24T01:54:59Z")
I am obviously not the right audience for this, because I really can’t see the point. Not the point of making a gross movie. I mean the point of attaching people ass to mouth in a chain. Why would the crazy Dr. do that? I have no problem with wacked out movie anti-heros but I like them to have some sort of motivation. Furthermore, I’m pretty sure that poo is poisonous - no? Wouldn’t person #2 and person #3 die pretty darn quickly necessitating the capture of more chain members? That doesn’t make sense - it’s like a make work project. Maybe if he was attaching them mouth to stomach or something? Although I guess you don’t get the 'I’m about to shit in your mouth." angle. Is that the point? Lets watch girls shit in each others mouths? That’s dumb. I think Two Girls, One Cup pretty well has that covered. Anyhow - it’s not the gore that would keep me away - it doesn’t even look that gory. It just looks super dumb. If someone on here goes and sees it and posts a synopsis that makes it look less dumb I might consider it. (My husband is keen to see it 'cus he really digs the gore flicks.) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/10 "2009-10-24T01:57:21Z")
I was halfway hoping it’d be some sort of porn movie… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/11 "2009-10-24T03:44:44Z")
Wouldn’t that be hard on your spine, bent over like that? I mean, jeez, talk about a recipe for back pain. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/12 "2009-10-24T05:06:31Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I am obviously not the right audience for this, because I really can’t see the point. According to the TV Tropes page Miller linked to, it’s not even an _original_ strange idea: > [@](#): > > Many of the monsters, especially in [Silent Hill] 3 and Homecoming, are, of course, quite body-horrific, e.g., the Bubble Head Nurses, the Abstract Daddy, the Pendulums, the Siamese twin monster(the Homecoming one), and **the centipede made of human torsoes**. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/13 "2009-10-24T05:13:55Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > According to the TV Tropes page Miller linked to, it’s not even an _original_ strange idea: I also recall a Charles Sheffield novel that mentioned one; it was the result of a bunch of neo-Marxists trying to use shape change inducing machinery to attempt to implement their ideals in a physical fashion. Which resulted in their sect being mentioned as an example of Things You Shouldn’t Do With Shapechange Machines. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/14 "2009-10-24T12:52:38Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Wouldn’t that be hard on your spine, bent over like that? I mean, jeez, talk about a recipe for back pain. Nono, he is a considerate guy, he will cut off the legs below the knee. ---
**Author:** ![snailboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@snailboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snailboy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/15 "2009-10-24T15:28:46Z")
It’s ridiculous. Centipedes have two legs per body segment. It should be called Human Millipede. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/16 "2009-10-24T15:29:57Z")
Everything **alice\_in\_wonderland** said. I can buy motive from the characters in _Audition_, in [‘Dumpling,’](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420251/) even [Martyrs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029234/). This looks stupid, beyond some pornographic fantasy. Checking out Dutch director Tom Six’s bio, he seems to get slightly dumber and more offensive with each flick. And his movies are funded by someone who shares his name, possibly his wife (or, god help us, his mom). I’m sure if someone dared to post on his message board he’d be more than willing to correspond and answer questions – he seems like the type (ETA I recommend someone post **snailboy** ’s complaint). I do love this description for one of his films, though > [@](#): > > ``` > This movie is about a couple that kidnaps a famous singer to use his seed for the baby they want. The woman is crazy about the singer and the man is sterile. That this leads to stupid situations is a given. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/17 "2009-10-24T15:43:03Z")
I’m sure that there’s a perfectly reasonable mad-scientist explanation in the movie, but what on earth is making a human centipede supposed to achieve? Why take a creature with such a complicated brain and take away everything that makes it motivated to exist- all social communication, possibility for sexual reproduction, physical comfort, pretty much everything except the ability to feed and shit. The IMBD synopsis say the doctor “has a demented vision for mankind’s future existence.” Demented, yeah, and really, really stupid. Oh, dammit, there’s a centipede on the wall right in front of me. Gross. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/18 "2009-10-24T16:18:32Z")
You _never_ go ass to mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/19 "2009-10-24T16:38:22Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Reminds me of the tale of the guy who fed a duck some food on the end of a long piece of string, waited for it to come out the other end, tied on more food, then fed it to another duck, etc. That was Munchhausen, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-human-centipede-who-would-go-to-see-such-vile-trash/514898/20 "2009-10-24T19:59:02Z")
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