The Human Centipede is now available via Netflix instant watch. I can’t decide whether I want to watch it or not, so I’m asking for opinions based on a few vague facts
I like horror movies. I mean, movies that are truly horrifying/scary/creepy. Aliens is one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen, and Poltergeist and Silence of the Lambs were excellent, too.
I don’t mind gore in horror movies as long as it serves a purpose. I’m not interested in gore for the sake of gore. I’m not interested in movies that exist solely to portray scantily-clad young women being killed in all manner of bloody, inventive ways.
It looks like Centipede might have that creep-factor that I love so much.
Haven’t seen it - but every review I’ve read says that it’s essentially torture porn. I don’t intend to see it. My view on gore in movies is the same as yours: Fine (even praiseworthy) if it drives an interesting story, but repulsive and depressing if the gore is the story.
Well, my first assumption was that it was torture porn. But I was looking at the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes; now, while it only rated 49% fresh, a lot of the critics did not think so. In fact, in many of the ‘rotten’ reviews, a common complaint was that it wasn’t gory or provocative enough!
All right, then - clearly, it’s incumbent upon you to fight some ignorance. Go forth and watch this film, Norinew, and report back to the Teeming Millions!
Dieter Laser was awesome as the mad doctor, but other than his performance I thought the movie was kind of boring. It’s really not scary at all, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s torture porn.
It’s not scary, and it’s not exactly torture porn. It’s more a sort of “queasy” film, designed to make you feel disgusted and uncomfortable with what you’re seeing. There’s not a lot of graphic violence by horror movie standards, and not much blood.
The prior comment is also right on the money: the real horror and dread is in the act of making the “centipede”, and after that, there’s a whole lot of movie left to slog through. It gets a little tedious, frankly.
No torture porn. It’s, however, the movie that holds the record for “most ridiculously incompetent victims”. Seriously, Dieter Laser plays a frail old man, so the only way for his plan to work is for the three morons he captures to sabotage themselves constantly out of sheer infuriating idiocy. Better seen in an MST3K spirit.
Yeah I agree with this. It’s gross more in concept than by what is actually shown. I thought it would be a lot more graphic than it was. It was surprisingly well-made, I was expecting some schlocky B-movie type thing. And yes, the three victims are just mind-numbingly stupid at times.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! For enlightening me and saving me from myself, I am forever in your debt.
Perhaps there’s a particular day of the week and time period that I may contact you so that you may inform me whether my entertainment choices for the coming week are suitable?
It has no redeeming qualities unless you were to get aroused by making a guy crawl around with a woman’s face sewn to his ass and a woman’s face sewn to her ass. It is now top on my list of the worst films of all times. This however will never make you laugh because it’s so bad. It will only make you want to torture the director for revenge which won’t work because he would get off on it. I skipped through this video and have to say it’s a fetish porn made for very sick individuals. It’s in no way a horror film.
Now this is the kind of input I find helpful. I do have my ‘quirks’, shall we say, but that definitely ain’t one of 'em! I think I’ll skip it.
BTW, just in case anyone is thinking “Well, geez, it’s on Netflix instant play; why not just start watching it and see?”, it’s a little more complex than that. I have a 10YO here, so to watch something like this, I’d have to time it so I could watch it while she was at school. And Christmas break is coming up fast! So I was just wondering whether the movie was worth rearranging my schedule for. Doesn’t sound like it is.
I’m a big fan of cheesy horror movies and given the hoopla I though I’d give it a shot.
Geesh was that boring. I ended up fast forwarding through a good chunk of it. It’s not so bad that it’s funny, it’s so bad you’re checking you’re watch every few minutes. And I don’t have a short attention span, I like slow movies when the style is appropriate.
I doubt it’s worth going out of your way for, unless you’re trying to see every cheep horror movie every made. There are far ‘worse’ ones out there that are at least amusing to watch.
No, I’m not out to see every cheap horror movie ever made. If a horror movie does its job (set me on edge, scare me, make me think, stuff like that), I don’t really care what its budget was. But if it’s a cheap horror movie that’s not scary, I don’t really see the point. I’ve got plenty of other stuff I could watch.
Yeah, it’s not very good. The two female leads aren’t that great of actresses, and you do want to smack them for their idiocy. And it drags. It’s well made, but I’d definitely put it in the B-movie camp, not in the torture-porn camp. It’s definitely not Saw or Hostel.
Weird that a movie like this would be boring, but it is. You probably know all you need to know about this flick.
Yeah, I thought it sounded interesting, so I gave it a shot. Not worth it. It really was boring; not scary, not gross, just… boring. There wasn’t much gore, but there wasn’t much of anything else either. I expected something trashy and campy and over the top. It wasn’t. I also ended up fast forwarding through most of it.
