THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) Post Release

I'm so there. Thanks for the write up. I've been curious about this one since I heard of it, but I didn't delve that much deeper knowing it will be covered properly here.

Yeah, can't fucking wait for this.

Nice review! And a potentially dumb question, but what's with the parenthetical in the title?

Hmm. I see. Yes. Truly, this is the movie for me.

This movie certainly isn't for me, but the above had me chuckling. So, this isn't a dark comedy?

Excellent review. Looking forward to getting sick watching a movie again.

This sounds absolutely horrible, but delightfully so... I don't know if I could handle it, but who knows. Either way, I sent links to the 2 articles to some friends and loved ones just to show how much I care. Just knowing that more is on the way is horrible/great/disturbing too!

This is so not my thing, but... it's entirely too intriguing not to watch.

This'll be one I rent and corner one of my friends or my girlfriend with the old routine of:

"Hey, want to watch a movie?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"I'm not really sure. Some foreign film. I heard it's best to go in with no spoilers, so I stayed away from any kind of synopsis. Let's just watch"

You, sir, are cruel.



I love it.

I've done it before. I did that with "Dear Zachary" to the girlfriend and a few friends. "I don't know... just some documentary."

Ditto that with "Oldboy."

This film is definately not for me - reading Devin's review was enough to make me queasy. Nice work, sir, in all sincerity. The review is pitch-perfect.

I thought this was kinda cool. The actor playing the Japanese yakuza/head centipede (Kitamura Akihiro - not Ken Jeong as I originally suspected. Whoa, an actual Japanese actor playing a Japanese character? Extra points right there) has a personal blog and links to Dev's review (and practically shoots his load w/ excitement and glee). The hyperlink is on the 2nd paragraph following the embedded video from G4's AOTS episode where you can see more clips.

I'll second this, and I'm hardly squeamish. The one image of the girl in the article alone made me very uneasy.

Is it wrong that I imagine her letter written in ass-muffling moans?

Entirely on board. Would love to see this with a big group though.

Screamfest in Los Angeles played it tonight. It was a fairly packed house and the movie KILLED. It's totally a black comedy/body horror film. Even at it's most disturbing, there is still great humor in it. After seeing the preview, I really didn't think I wanted to see it, but I am so glad that I did.

One of the best horror films I've seen in a while. The actors are all great, Tom Six is a seriously talented director and Dr. Heiter is one of the all-time great movie mad doctors.

Yeah, an excellent movie that creeps under your skin. The limited budget was really put to effective use. The ending was just perfect and sad. Hopefully the sequel will be just as original.

My mind created a much more disgusting film than what it really is, but damn if it isn't tense as hell. I'll be damned if I wasn't cackling with glee when Dr. Heiter starts going over his plan- there are too few horror antagonists that cheerfully tell their victims everything they're in for. And good lord that scene with the mirror when he's reveling in his creation...

Had a couple of issues with it- I didn't care for the way they crammed all of Kitamura Akihiro's character's backstory into that last moment. He's fantastic in the role but it would have been nice to have even a hint of his past beforehand. Hell, if we have to put up with the stereotypical American party girls for that opening sequence we certainly could have seen how he came around.

But a very solid film, one that had more than a few critics looking anywhere but the screen in disgust. (No walkouts though, sadly!)

Opens in Houston 5/7 and 5/8 at the River Oaks! Who's with me, Houston Chewers?

Just caught this on IFC On Demand. Jesus. I mean, Jesus Fucking Christ.

Just one long, 90-minute skin crawl. While I'm dying to see what Tom Six might do in the future, I never need to see this again.

The final shot rivals The Vanishing for fatalistic dread that you won't be able to shake off very easily at all.




Edited due to Tom Mix and Tom Six being two different people separated by a century.

I'm curious and afraid of this movie, don't know if I should watch it. I guess as a horror film it succeeds even without watching it!

The interesting thing about the film is that it's really no more violent than, say, Kick Ass, but its disturbing/skeeviness factor is off the fucking charts.

I feel like a horrible human being for enjoying this so, so goddamn much.

I was actually surprised at how un-shocking this ended up being. I guess months of thinking the worst about the concept didn't help.

I do not want to see this again, however, because I would be too sad knowing the ultimate fates of the girls from the beginning. What happens to the end girl is pretty brutal, she must have been extremely uncomfortable to die in such a way. I think the middle girl will make it out alive though; the police will eventually find the house considering the two cops probably told someone where they were going. She'll be traumatized for awhile though.

A problem with the film is the characters make the dumbest choices. Why did the middle girl go back for the end girl when she was home free and could've gotten help for everyone? Why didn't the Japanese guy kill the doctor when he had the chance after stabbing him in the leg?

Also, is Six serious when he talks about a sequel? I guess they'll have to go with another doctor considering this one was shot in the head and is most likely dead.

I'm going to be the asshole that says even if you get past that somehow they didn't choke to death on their own vomit, how the fuck did German Christopher Walken get them up and down his ridiculous spiral staircase so often if they clearly had quite a struggle trying it themselves? Did he have an elevator in that house somewhere?

I thought of this as well and it did seem unrealistic. And because I thought of it, I want to set fire to my brain.

A magical, unseen elevator.

Wow, this was something else, and I was prepared for the worse so I guess it wasn't as vomit inducing as I would have expected.

All horror movies show characters making dumb choices, but at least I thought the cops were not that stupid, that is until the end of course (and I guess German detectives don't like to call for backup when they hear gunshots???).

No idea how they will make a sequel out of this. The whole experiment will go public and maybe a like minded doctor will follow up on this ...

Best scene is him explaining his plan to his victims of course ...

I love how people — without having seen it, of course — are ranting about how anyone who would even want to see it, much less enjoy it, must be sick and depraved.

Of course, people have been saying that sort of thing about envelope-pushing horror for about a century.

And of course the people who have seen it and denounce it as repulsive, morally despicable, etc. — boy, they're sure giving the film boffo free advertising. Nice of 'em.

I must say that I really admired the film and thought it was very effective, I can't think of a single person I can recommend this to. I know a bunch of folks that I can't even tell the premise to.

Wasn't that bad, definitely in the camp who built it up to be overly disgusting/soul-destroying after hearing about it but didn't have it carry across while watching the film. The Dr. was fun, though he looked more like Mad German Lance Henriksen than a Chris Walken to me.

No clue how they will pull off the next sequence with how this ended.

The doctor somehow survives and continues his experiments inside prison, Herbert West style. Or the doctor had a conjoined twin who was separated at birth who perfects the experiments.

I think part of the weirdness factor of the centipede was diminished by having the whiny Japanese guy be the head, it reminded me of strange japanese creatures like Seaman or the monsters from Big Man Japan or a wacky Miike movie

I thought it was okay. The creepy doctor does a great job and the concept is wonderfully bizarre, but I wasn't all too happy about the development of the story. As already stated, doctor, cops and victims all behave stupid and when you know the concept and seen a picture, you've already pretty much seen it all. It doesn't get more gross than it's idea, therefore I think it's more effective if you don't know anything prior to the showing. It's not an amazingly good movie, but an interesting flick and worth a ticket for everyone who's sick of glossy Hollywood horror movies.

The idea of a sequel is interesting. Who does the next sequence and in what way will it be presented? At the showing someone said that Tom Six is even planning for two sequels. I hope II goes all-out bonkers and goes places Tokyo Gore Police went, just without the camp. I wish Heiter survived and escaped.

Ashley Williams is quite a looker and hers is a really brave role to play. The filming must have been very uncomfortable for her. I wish her that "mouth-to-ass and ass-to-mouth girl" doesn't stay her most well known role. I wonder if she'll do conventions and sign mouth-to-ass and ass-to-mouth pics for weird fans. Now this is some cosplay material.

I hope not. One of the strengths of the film is that, past its concept, it's relatively restrained.

I caught this when it played at Cinefamily a couple months ago and am thinking about going again to see it at the NuArt either this weekend or next. Seeing it with an audience is simply amazing.

Yeah, if I were him I would have put the one who could understand me in the lead. Perhaps he hated women and wanted them to eat shit though.

I just got around to seeing this. Thought I'd post whilst my fiance throws up!

It was definately a tough watch in all the right ways a film like this should be, a very good film.

However, I have to say that after seeing Martyrs last a few months back this film didn't have quite the impact it otherwise would've done. I think spiritually these two films are related, but Martyrs struck first, and more importantly is a better film as well.

If you dug this and haven't seen Martyrs already, check it out!

Jesus christ I haven't even watched this flick, haven't seen a trailer (deliberately) and yet last night I was having nightmares of being at the head of a human centipede desperately trying not to shit into the person behind me's mouth while being force fed food. I even had to get up and walk around a bit to wipe it from my brain.

I can never watch this movie.

Ebert had a curious reaction to this film.

I think Ebert's review is kind of awesome. It seems like his admiration for the film overcame (well, almost matched) his disgust with the subject matter. Made me more interested in seeing it (although I'm totally not sure I will).

Yeah that was a great and strange review, totally spot on, and the perfect film to simply not give a star rating at all. Funny statement about Laser being born for this role, a praise for his performance with a bit of pity about it at the same time.

The guy who plays the mad doctor has a huge jaw. He kind of looks like a cross between Henry Silva and Robert Zdar.

OMFG!

Jesus. Cheerful little ending.

I wonder if the outrage over the film (from, again, many who haven't seen it) is because it's primarily in English. The world is full of movies as weird/gross or worse, but they hail from other countries or played mainly in grindhouse dives in the '70s. Go to Video Screams or Shocking Videos and read some of the descriptions; some of those films make The Human Centipede sound like Anne of Green Gables.

The premise here is waaaaaay weirder than those movie descriptions you posted.

I'm not seeing much outrage, all things considered - just some reviews that say it's predicated on a gross, outrageous concept. And it is, regardless of how restrained the depiction might be.