This looks pretty fucked up. Maybe in a good way.
At least it’s “100% Medically Accurate”.
I’ve seen comments that said, sure it’s icky, but it’s not as disgusting as the Saw films.
I have no intention of seeing it, since I’m bored by horror films.
I’m kinda curious as to where it can go. Either he makes them into the centipede and that’s that (as it seems to imply in the trailers) or he doesn’t and it’s all just hype.
Once they’re a centipede, the movie should pretty much seem over, unless one of them is a professional surgeon who just happens to know exactly how to cut them all apart.
Or maybe just the end one survives, as she just has to rip herself off, and would be the least likely to bleed to death thusly.
That said, I’m not really interested in watching THIS film, but i’d want to watch the sequel to know how they’d top this one.
Seconded, ToeJam. Watching the trailer, it felt more or less like your normal torture porn flick. The only difference is that this guy has this weird goal in mind. But–and I admit to not following this genre–isn’t the psycho’s goal or motivation basically just a MacGuffin in these films anyway? It’s just something that gives him an excuse to do horrible, sick, demented things to the victim/protagonists.
Imagine watching the trailer with all of the ‘human centipede’ bits removed. (And there were only two or three references to it, as I recall.) Would it really have anything to set it apart from any other flick in the genre?
(On the other hand, Birdemic is fast on its way to cult status, so who’m I to say!)
Wait. This is an actual real film and not one of those spoof trailers? Oh my. I thought for sure this was just a parody. Apparently not.
I was actually wondering about the in-movie explanation of its medical details. How are the non-head pieces supposed to get their nutrition? Surely, they can’t survive on, erm, already digested matter…
No, I read a review of this movie about a week ago. It’s a real movie.
Robin Williams is really reaching these days, isn’t he?
That’s what I’m wondering. There’s a four-minute clip here. It seems like #2 and #3 would pretty quickly succumb to some pretty horrid gastric problems.
And yeah, this is about the most disturbing movie trailer I’ve seen in a long time. I’m hoping I don’t wake up at 3am tonight thinking about it.
as I understand it, the doctor performing the work is supposed to be world-famous for separating Siamese Twins, and decided to go the other route and join them up.
If that really is what he’s doing, you’d think that he would be joining their circulatory systems together, as well, so everyone is getting nutrients through the bloodstream, as well.
Of course, they’d be on all sorts of anti-rejection medications as well as the other things they’d need. In the Real World, I’d think these poor folks would be too doped up and bedridden to centipede around. And those twists of cloth they show them bound together look woefully inadequate as strain-reliefs.
besides all that, what happens is the middle or end one throw up? I can easily see them asphyxiating on their own vomit. If I were doing this, I’d try to make sure those elements in the chain had connections between mouth and the breathing system effectively blocked off.
Yeah, I read a few reviews of it too.
Appparently it’s as good as you’d expect a movie titled The Human Centipede to be. Translation: It blows.
You’d have to do a whole lot of screwing around with the airway, which I don’t see working out. Considering how easy it is for a human to choke normally, plus the recovery time involved in what would end up being major, pretty much unprecedented reconstruction/rearrangement of the structures of the throat and mouth, you’d have someone twitch the wrong way during healing and rip everything out/rip apart/whatever.
Well, the whole film is apparently about unprecedented, major surgery, so it’s not that much more of a stretch.
When you step back and consider it, I find it hard to believe that an actual surgeon supposedly collaborated and called the result plausible. There’s a helluva lot of “radical unprecedented” in this, even if they don’t do all the things I suggested.
Yeah, the airway thing leaped out at me first, but everything else on top of it? One surgeon working alone in a home surgery doing radical stuff like this on three patients at once? “Plausible” is… stretching it.
Breathing and nutrition are first reasons that jump to mind as to why this wouldn’t work. Not that I know this from personal experience, but it appears that, when you’re jowl-deep in someone’s ass, it’ll take some effort to keep your nose open and keep breathing. If they relax for just a few minutes, they’ll asphyxiate. Making the problem worse is the fact that he’ll probably have to drug them heavily to prevent them from choking to death on their own vomit.
And there’s the “recycled nutrition” thing as mentioned before. Not to mention that it appears that the Mad Scientist only attached the anus to the mouth, meaning that there’s no apparent way for the people in back to drink. So, death by dehydration in a few days, if not sooner.
From what I’ve heard, the problem with the movie is that once you know (and have that glimpse in the trailer of) the results of the experiment, there’s not a lot of shock left. And completing the “centipede” happens relatively early in the film, leaving a lot of screen time for the doctor to “train” his creation. I hear the “climbing a spiral staircase” is loads of fun. The horrifying conclusion, according to Wikipedia:The guy in front refuses to cooperate with the doctor’s training, and eventually kills himself. The girl at the back develops blood poisoning. Along with all that, two policemen show up and kill the doctor, who shoots and kills them as well. Finally, the girl at the back succumbs to the blood poisoning and dies. That leaves the girl in the middle of the “centipede” as the last one alive, all alone, stuck between the dead “head” and “tail”. Mighty gruesome.
Not just any mere surgeon, but his Divine Shadow’s Bio-Vizier thank you.
That’s what jumped out at me first from the whole clip 
On the acting side - no matter how badly you want to break into acting, and how the film uses the “two pretty girls in danger” theme… they spend most of the film with their face stuck in/on someone else’s butt. And not in a sexyish porn fashion, either. Not exactly a great showcase for your acting skills. :smack:
I generally agree with you, but for some very subjective reason a good or original motive makes this type of movie much more appealing to me. I didn’t like Hostel because the reasoning behind the torture was almost nonexistant, I guess you could say there was torture only because the customers wanted it. Lame.
However, I liked the Saw movies (at least the 1st couple, then I lost interest), primarily because of the motive of the bad guy.
I also liked this French film, Martyrs, because of the original motive.
According to the wiki article, they (and the people who funded this) weren’t told those details until everyone had already agreed to do it.
Also: don’t recommend reading the wiki article, even so. Ick.
Now I’m off to brain-bleach and then train away my “may as well open this innocuous thread” impulse away. Ick.