# Trailer for the film 'The Human Centipede' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090 "2010-05-03T00:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/21 "2010-05-03T16:55:56Z")
In another thread on another board, someone said that the doctor used IV supplements to the second two people to keep them alive. I haven’t seen it so I couldn’t say for sure. As other said, it sounds kind of dumb to me (ok, really dumb). Once you stitch them together, it seems like… “Huh. That was fun. Now what?” ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/22 "2010-05-03T16:59:09Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > When you step back and consider it, I find it hard to believe that an actual surgeon supposedly collaborated and called the result plausible. Agreeing to call it plausible was probably the fastest way to fulfil their side of the contract, so that they wouldn’t have to watch it any more. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/23 "2010-05-03T19:31:08Z")
Sigh. I knew what this thread was about coming into it. I _knew_… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/24 "2010-05-03T19:39:55Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > 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. Certainly seems that way here. If there is no way the critter could survive, the point of the exercise is obviously to use living people as instruments of one’s own sadism. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/25 "2010-05-04T02:27:57Z")
Damn this dial up! I can’t watch the horrific, vomit-inducing trailer. On another note- Why does torture porn seem to focus just on the physical? Where are all the mad psychiatrists? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/26 "2010-05-04T02:48:56Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Not just any mere surgeon, but his [Divine Shadow’s Bio-Vizier](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx#Villains) thank you. > > That’s what jumped out at me first from the whole clip 🙂 My first thought was where was Brizon when you needed him? ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/27 "2010-05-04T04:46:08Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Where are all the mad psychiatrists? They’re the directors filming the films. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/28 "2010-05-04T05:02:26Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Why does torture porn seem to focus just on the physical? Where are all the mad psychiatrists? It _is_ porn, after all. It must be graphic. How aroused would you get if a porn movie consisted of nothing but moaning, o-faces and cybersex messages? ---
**Author:** ![Lily\_Milliner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8edcca/32.png) [@Lily\_Milliner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lily_Milliner)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/29 "2010-05-05T01:08:38Z")
I’m so glad I clicked on this thread! I’m not that easily grossed out, but for some reason ever since I heard about it (here), this movie has pinged my wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-can’t-stop-thinking-about-it buttons. Not in a seriously disturbing way, just in a kind of nagging way. But I think the good solid laugh I just got from **Max Torque** , **Ferret Herder** , and **CalMeacham** discussing the medical issues in that deadpan tone just exorcised this particular demon for good. Thanks, guys (gals?)! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/30 "2010-05-05T05:00:38Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > 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. Plus, she’s stuck in front of a mirror, unable to turn away, which just makes it even more disturbing, when you think about what’s going to happen in the next couple days, if she even lives that long. > [@Jophiel](#): > > In another thread on another board, someone said that the doctor used IV supplements to the second two people to keep them alive. I haven’t seen it so I couldn’t say for sure. They did have IV tubes connected but I have no idea if that was supposed to give them nutrition, or antibiotics, or what. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/31 "2010-05-05T06:15:05Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Along with all that, two policemen show up “Go on down to the cellar with him.” “Gee, do I hafta, sarge? Look at that puss. He looks like Boris Karloff!” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/32 "2010-05-20T15:24:17Z")
Just when I think humanity is capable of no further depravity other than what it has already devised over the span of recorded history… I’m proven wrong. Blegh. ---
**Author:** ![clnilsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@clnilsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clnilsen)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/33 "2010-05-20T15:48:54Z")
When I first heard about this movie, the first thing that came to mind was the [four-assed monkeys from South Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Elephant_Makes_Love_to_a_Pig). And about as stupid. This would be better as a spoof than a real movie. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/34 "2010-05-20T15:53:03Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > 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. Roger Ebert reviewed it and is not rating it at all. He said the star rating system (as in 1 star bad, 4 stars good) is just not compatible to this particular movie type. Actually I think the tone of his review overall was “it is what it is.” ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/35 "2010-05-20T15:58:59Z")
My first thought was - “best Bay to Breakers entry ever!” > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Plus, she’s stuck in front of a mirror, unable to turn away, which just makes it even more disturbing, when you think about what’s going to happen in the next couple days, if she even lives that long. It’s an unfortunate truth that due to record low levels of crime, Germany has only two police officers. I think there’s also some strange anti-Nazi regulation involved with that as well. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/36 "2010-05-20T16:31:08Z")
Next up: The Human Millipede followed by its direct-to-video sequel The Human Billipede (tagline: and you thought Hands Across America was glurge inducing") ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/37 "2010-05-20T17:14:59Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > Roger Ebert reviewed it and is not rating it at all. He said the star rating system (as in 1 star bad, 4 stars good) is just not compatible to this particular movie type. Actually I think the tone of his review overall was “it is what it is.” Yeah, a friend of mine forwarded me Ebert’s review a couple weeks ago. I’m curious what the premises of the other films in this series are going to be (as I understand it, this is just one part.) _checks Wikipedia_ Ah, looks like _The Human Centipede II: The Full Sequence_ is slated for 2011, and is rumored to include a human centipede consisting of 12 individuals. The director describes it as being much more disturbing than the first, and says the first part is “My Little Pony” compared with part two. Oh boy, are we in for a treat… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/38 "2010-05-20T17:21:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Ah, looks like The Human Centipede II: The Full Sequence is slated for 2011, and is rumored to include a human centipede consisting of 12 individuals. The director describes it as being much more disturbing than the first, and says the first part is “My Little Pony” compared with part two. Oh boy, are we in for a treat… One local reviewer notes that, since it contains twelve individuals, rather than three, it’s certain to be _four times_ as good as the first. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/39 "2010-05-20T17:21:36Z")
I seem to remember a film with this plot being discussed in past movie threads. Is this a remake? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090/40 "2010-05-20T17:24:51Z")
People are saying this is medically accurate, but how, exactly? What is connecting them? Is like…you stitch the skin together or you’ve put something down someone’s GI tract through the next person’s mouth? And like, can they not talk, the ones on the bottom? Sorry, I just can’t wrap my head around it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-the-film-the-human-centipede/538090.md?page=3)