First grotesque anal grafted stills for Tom Six's HUMAN CENTIPEDE (Fright Fest 2009 thread)

I'm going to the midnight showing this Friday. I would bet I've paid to see worse things.

mickey rourke's face, for one

feel sorry for those paying 2 see it in a theater

i feel worse for the actresses playing the middle and end segments.

whatever they were paid, it couldn't be enough.

I kind of don't get why people are having *such* a strong negative reaction to this movie. I mean, it's clearly meant to be shocking and all that, but I know two people who are pretty inured to grossness and shocking films, but who have said they will not be seeing this one.

I'm pretty sure that the concept of a human centipede as fodder for humor is far more interesting than the movie, so it's probably good that not too many of my friends will see it. The jokes and references can continue, and maybe I can offer some new perspectives, but we won't tire of it as soon.

i mentioned my reasons upthread. i think this movie concept goes beyond the pale. reasonable minds can disagree, i guess. it's definitely good fodder for humor, tho!

I don't know. Like I said, I watched it last night and it didn't bother me that much. I don't get that freaked out by things that are highly unlikely to happen irl. I am much more disturbed by good psychological thriller type things than grotesque horror.

You know, I think I've become a little desensitized to human centipedism since my friends and I have spent a lot of time talking and joking about it. On the other hand, I don't think I will ever watch Hostel or any more Saw movies even though I have heard quite a bit about them.

I think that The HC has a hook that the Hostel doesn't.

Like I said, I watched it last night and it didn't bother me that much

idk. do you see the sutures that stitch the bodies together? seeing that would horrify me.

spend less time in the Human Centipede thread then?

but this thread has too many funny posts!

Ebert has a go

That review contains a lot of what I like about Ebert.

The diagram is hilarious.

<3 Ebert. He's totally spot on with that review.

Dieter Laser, who plays Dr. Heiter, takes the role with relentless sincerity. This is his 63rd acting role, but, poor guy, is seemingly the one he was born to play.

Haven't seen Mr. Laser (great real name btw) in any of the other 62 films but he was so perfect in this role it's hard to imagine him as anything other than a batshit insane eveil doktor.

err "evil" not eveil although perhaps that's some next level stuff

I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.

lol

Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.

first turn of phrase I've liked of Ebert's in ages.

Get the idea?

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Tom Six, a Dutch director whose previous two films average 4 out of 10 on the IMDb.com scale, which is a score so low very few directors attain it

4/10 seems like a sub-par, but almost average, score to me.

imdb.com must have a different, not-so-intuitive ratings scale?

http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2003/parisconnection/ZygoticL.jpg
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Zygotic acceleration, biogenetic, desublimated libidinal model, 1995

haha

also ebert otm

ilx is kinda like a human centipede when u think abt it

NO IT IS NOT

no wonder we're so interested in what other ilxors are eating

I actually read this thread before eating just now.

We are also like to talk about poop. It all makes perfect sense, really.

All not all

i can't recall many threads on sewing tho.

i was rewatching the trailer for this and i noticed in the clip where the girl locks herself in dude's bedroom - there's a picture next to the lamp of what appears to be two dogs standing nose-to-ass! can't tell if they're stitched together or not tho.

***errr spoiler, I guess***

They are. He made a dog centipede out of his Rottweilers before attempting it out on humans.

so does the dog centipede spend any time running around in the movie? because I am not sure how you would train dogs to do that

No. You learn early on that the dog centipede, or "three dog" as he calls it, is dead.

you don't need to train a dog, you just need to train a dog centipede xp

aw

Does he refer to it in German, like "wo ist mein Dreihund?"

lol

When seeking funding for the film, Tom Six did not initially let on that the victims of The Human Centipede would be joined by mouth to anus, fearing that it would put off potential investors, and his backers did not find out the exact details of the film until it had been completed.[9] Additionally, the actors themselves were not presented with a completed script prior to signing onto the film, instead only being given an outline of the film's storyboard.[15]

Those poor poor bastards.

I'd stab someone

I'd sew their mouth to their own arsehole.

But on a lighter note, if a dog centipede cocks its leg, what happens?

Additionally, the actors themselves were not presented with a completed script prior to signing onto the film, instead only being given an outline of the film's storyboard

what else could the actors have thought the film was about, between the title and the storyboards?

"sorry, i signed on to do serious film, not this horrorshow"

"I thought the human centipede was going to be a metaphor about abortion."

ugh can we pretend I didn't just say that; sorry

"I thought it was a bio-pic of Black Lace"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V6N4elMVX4
(insert "Black Lace are recycled shit" joke)

"i thought it was a love story, between a plucky, ne'er-do-well redhead and a centipede with moxie working his way up from a hardscrabble life!"

"I thought I signed on for 'Hume and Centipede'! When am I going to live my life dream of playing David Hume?"

In that movie, David Hume praises the game "Centipede" for decentralizing notions of uniformity in nature.

loooooool