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If your anything like me, you enjoy scarring your mind with brutal horror films. In the past decade, we have seen this "evolution" of extremity movies such as "Hostel" or "Saw". From a cultural perspective comes even fore ferocious films of the Genre. Paving the way was Japanese horror such as "The Audition" and French films such as "Martyrs". They blend in with our movie making in a way that makes one question, "What is next? Could this get any worse?"
Originality is a factor of film making and, in many ways, more important to horror direction and writing. When something loses its shock value, another title is sure to come into play trying to change the stakes or up the gore. What we find is that gore alone is not horror.
Art direction comes at a cost.
A few good movies did in fact surface, however. These films have much to offer in presentation and story telling. The concept is reasonable and believable to an extent, making them all the bit more horrid to behold. So, when a title comes out... your girl, Tonia Lee, is the first to watch and report.
This being said, I had the chance to sit down with the talked about movie, "The Human Centipede."
Before I give away the "plot", I need to make it clear that this movie is so fucking awful, I can't believe I fell into the gimmick before it was released. When I first got a taste of the concept, I was one of the first to say that this movie would be the scariest movie since the Exorcist. I was wrong.
Three people are kidnapped by a doctor in Germany who is world renowned for separating conjoined twins. Two of them are young girls and the other is a Japanese man. The doctor had three dogs that passed away after he joined them in a surgical procedure that defies all levels of morality and sanity. Basically, he make a centipede dog.
He loved his centipede dog but it died a slow death so he gets the idea to make a three part human with the same surgery.
The mad doctor is supposed to be scary in this movie but... he is likable and funny. This was not the way they wanted to present him but when you see him acting like Dr. Frankenstein, training his "manapede" with a newspaper and taking pictures of it, you will laugh so hard. He has this dry voice with this neo-nazi sadistic personality. He is in no way a scary element. He could have been... if they TRIED.
How does he join them? The fucking gastric system. He cuts up your ass and mouth and joins them. In one example, he is (so help me God) illustrating this surgery to his three victims. He shows how he pulls the entrails out and grafts it to the throat. The directer boasts this movie to be 100% medically true and possible.
At first you are unnerved. I was like, "Holy fucking shit! This is so messed up." However, once you ask some basic questions... it's really stupid. Not even remotely possible.
I would say that this is the only scary scene in this movie. It was pretty intense and I liked his display of "glee" as he illustrated it. Once the scene ends and you get to see his human centipede, it loses every bit of credibility and horror. All you see is three people crawling around whimpering because the are grafted onto this guys ass hole.
LOL
This is just what it is, a gimmick. If you don't fall for it, it becomes funny. Posts on chan boards talk about joining hamsters or making a "fagapede.".
The trailer delivers, though. If you see the trailer, you think this movie is shocking and scary.
Conclusion? With the great horror movies of the decade, this is not one of them.
The movie is bad on every level. It does not scare you and when it is over, you will wonder just why you watched people joined ass to mouth.
The movie sucked ass. Oh...
Oh LOL I get it! Now I understand the plot.
The movie was about how much it sucked ass. Me, the person watching the film is the end of the centipede, the person in the middle is the movie production and content while the head of the centipede is the director.
Wow, they really got me.
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