THE MOVIE: CRITIC'S TAKE
Not to many of you heard about this film. The reason being is because it's banned in many countries due to their intense rape scenes, fascism (eating feces), and torture. All involving young men and women younger than eighteen years old. I heard about this film through word of mouth despite its age. I wanted to see how crazy this film was for myself. After viewing it I can honestly say it's not a film for everyone and that's putting it lightly.
STORY
The film is set in a small town in Italy. A group of boys and girls are kidnapped by four very rich men with sick servants to display their need to act out their sexual and disgusting fantasies. The movie is split up into four parts: Dante's inferno, The circle of Shit, The circle of Manias, and The circle of Blood. These stories tell what happened during their 120 days at the palace.
It begins with an examination of the captures. We learn that most of them are virgins and grew up in catholic schools or were home schooled. One poor girl had to watch her mother die in front of her eyes before being taken away. Soon the tortures begin with the women being stripped naked and forced to serve everyone dinner. A female gets raped and loses her virginity while a man dances around showing everyone his ass. He too gets in on the fun and has sex with the male guard while delivering a pleasing smile. I didn't know what was more gross. The actually sex act or him smiling.
Later on we see a man named Duke take a dump on the floor and makes one of the captures eat his shit! This scene is very graphic and disgusting. It gets worse, the entire group of teenage boys and girls gets served a giant meal of feces for their dinner. Things don't get any better in the film. The boys are forced to marry the four men and then have sex with them. The women continue to get raped and tortured all along while being humility. Before this movie is finally over the group of men and woman are then killed via the means of scalping, branding, tongue cutting, and eye gorging. A sick film for a sick mind.
ACTING
The acting here is pretty good. You can feel for the captures and want to hurt the people that are doing those things to them. The villains here are as sick as ever and had sinister grins on their faces. There was a point in time where people thought this movie was real. That was later proven false but the film does give off a very real vibe.
SPECIAL EFFECTS
They did a great job with the effects here. From the torturing to the shitting everything looks as real as it can get. If you make the viewer want to vomit at the sight of your work then you know you did a good job.
WRITING AND DIRECTING
The film was written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. I don't know what possessed him to write this but this is some sick stuff. The dialog is as twisted as it can be while keeping a professional tone to it. The way it was filmed made it look real enough to have a legal system take a look at it. Despite the dark and disgusting feel to it it can be viewed as a piece of art. A piece of sick art but art non the less.
THE END
If you can stomach it then give it a view. You can find it on blu ray
now at some stores but don't think you'll find it at a Walmart or Target. Keep in mind this film is very graphic and not for the weak at heart. If you want to watch a piece of cinematic history then go right ahead. I don't regret watching this film I just regret not watching it with a bucket.Gay Shit Eating
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2010 Dutch horror film written and directed by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a "human centipede". It stars Dieter Laser as the villain, Dr. Heiter, with Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura as his victims. According to Six, the concept of the film arose from a joke he made with friends about punishing a child molester by stitching his mouth to the anus of a "fat truck driver." Six also stated that inspiration for the film came from Nazi medical experiments carried out during World War II, such as the actions of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz concentration camp.
When approaching investors prior to filming, Six did not mention the mouth-to-anus aspect of the plot, fearing it would put off potential backers. The financiers of The Human Centipede did not discover the full nature of the film until it was complete. The film received mixed reviews from mainstream film critics, but it won several accolades at international film festivals. The film was released in the United States on a limited release theatrically on 30 April. A sequel, The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), also written and directed by Six, was released in 2011.
Plot
Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), two American tourists in Germany, are drugged and kidnapped by crazed surgeon Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser) when they seek help after their car breaks down. The women awake in a makeshift medical ward. They witness Heiter kill a kidnapped truck driver (Rene de Wit) after Heiter informs him he is "not a match". When the women wake up a second time, Heiter has secured a new male captive, Japanese tourist Katsuro (Akihiro Kitamura). The doctor explains that he is a world-renowned expert at separating conjoined twins, but dreams of making new creatures by sewing people together. He describes in detail how he will surgically connect his three victims mouth-to-anus, so that they share a singledigestive system. After Lindsay fails in an attempt to escape, Heiter explains to Lindsay that he had previously experimented with creating what he called a "three-dog", also joined mouth-to-anus. The three-dog however died shortly after surgery. Heiter tells Lindsay that the middle dog of his creation experienced the most pain, and as a punishment for her escape attempt she will become the middle part of his centipede. Heiter performs the surgery on his victims, placing Katsuro at the front, Lindsay in the middle and Jenny at the rear. During his procedure Heiter severs the ligaments in his victims' knees so they cannot stand and are forced to crawl, and sticks the victims together in a line with their mouths surgically attached to the person in front's anus.
Once the operation is complete Heiter attempts to train his centipede as a pet. During one such session, he watches with great delight as Lindsay is forced to swallow Katsuro's excrement. However, he eventually becomes irritated after being kept awake by the constant screaming of Katsuro (who as the front part of the centipede has his mouth free and is still able to speak) and the realisation that Jenny is dying from blood poisoning. When two detectives, Kranz (Andreas Leupold) and Voller (Peter Blankenstein), visit the house to investigate the disappearance of tourists, Heiter decides to add them to his centipede as replacements for Jenny. Heiter fails in an attempt to drug the detectives, and they leave the house to obtain a search warrant. The victims attempt to escape from the ward, crawling up the stairs, and Katsuro attacks Heiter. Their attempt to escape ultimately fails. Katsuro confesses to the doctor, in Japanese, that he deserves his fate because he had treated his family poorly. Katsuro then commits suicide by slitting his own throat with a piece of glass. The detectives return to the house and conduct separate searches, as Heiter hides near his swimming pool. Kranz finds the makeshift ward and then hears a gunshot. He discovers Heiter's victims before finding Voller dead in the swimming pool. Heiter shoots Kranz in the stomach, and Kranz responds by shooting Heiter in the head. Kranz then falls in the pool, dead. Back in the house, Jenny and Lindsay hold hands as Jenny dies from her infection. Lindsay is left alone in the house, trapped between her deceased fellow captives.
Writing
The inspiration for The Human Centipede's plot came from a joke that writer/director Tom Six once made to his friends about punishing a child molester they saw on TV by stitching his mouth to the anus of an overweight truck driver.[5] Six saw this as the concept for a great horror film, and he began to develop the idea.[15] He has said he was heavily influenced as a filmmaker by the early works ofDavid Cronenberg and Japanese horror films.[16] Six has said he prefers horror films that are more realistic over "unbelievable"[9] monster films, and said that he "(gets) a rash from too much political correctness."[17] Major influences for The Human Centipede were Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial 1975 Italian drama film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, which was notable for its scenes depicting intensely graphic violence, sadism, and sexual depravity, as was the work of Japanese director Takashi Miike.[18] Six has also expressed his love of the works of David Lynch.[19] Further inspiration came from Six's previous work as a director on the Dutch series of Big Brother, where he had been able to observe people who "did crazy things when they were alone and thought they were not (being) watched".[20]
Six has stated that The Human Centipede is, to an extent, a reflection on fascism. Dieter Laser, who played the antagonist Dr. Heiter, said during the promotion of the film that he felt the guilt of Nazi actions during the war had haunted ordinary Germans for generations, and that as a German whose father participated in the war, he often felt "like a child whose father is in jail for murder."[21] The inclusion of a German villain came from this, with Six citing both the German invasion of the Netherlands during World War II and the Nazi medical experiments as inspiration.[22] Laser stated in a interview with Clark Collis for Entertainment Weekly that he considered the film a "grotesque [parody] about the Nazi psyche."[5] Heiter's name was an amalgamation of several Nazi war criminals, his surname (literally meaning "cheerful" in German) a combination of the names of Nazi doctors Fetter and Richter, and his first name coming from Josef Mengele, who carried out experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp.[23] World War II also played an influence on the nationality of the other main characters who were American and Japanese.[24] Six includes many horror film clichés in the first act, such as a broken-down car, lack of phone signal[25] and very naïve victims.[9] Six did this in an attempt to lull audiences into thinking they are watching a conventional horror film, therefore making Dr. Heiter's treatment of his victims more shocking.[26] Six placed a Japanese male at the front of the centipede for two reasons: first to create a language barrier between the doctor and the centipede. Throughout the film the characters (with the exception of Heiter who for the most part speaks to the centipede in English) speak in their native languages only (subtitled for the viewer into English where necessary). Katsuro, as the front part of the centipede, can only speak Japanese and therefore cannot speak with either the doctor or Jenny and Lindsay. Secondly, Katsuro's position in the centipede sets up the opportunity for the doctor and the male victim of the centipede to fight toward the climax of the film.[27] Six stated in the director's commentary for The Human Centipede that he has a personal fear of hospitals and doctors, so he stretched out the scene where Heiter explains how he will create the centipede and the subsequent procedure in order to create his "own nightmare".[28]
While seeking funding for the film, Six pitched the idea of a surgeon who sewed people together.[29] He did not initially reveal that the victims would be joined mouth-to-anus, as he believed this idea would stand no chance of receiving investments.[30] His backers felt that the idea of a surgeon sewing people together was original and Six received funding.[29] However, they did not learn the exact details of the film until it had been completed.[5] Six claimed they were very happy with the finished film.[31] Before signing on, the actors were given an outline of the storyboard rather than a complete script. They were also shown sketches of how the centipede would be formed.[7]
[edit]Filming
Although The Human Centipede is set in Germany, filming took place in the Netherlands due to the countries' similar landscapes.[32] Heiter's home, where most of The Human Centipede takes place, was a villa in the Netherlands found by the production team. The property was in a residential area and not surrounded by woodland as it appears in the film, but by other houses. This meant the filmmakers had some difficulty ensuring the other houses did not appear in shot.[33] Some conversion of the property took place prior to filming, for example, a cinema room was converted to form Heiter's basement operating theatre,[34] with real hospital beds and intravenous drips rented from a local hospital.[35] The paintings of conjoined twins that were displayed throughout the house were painted by Tom Six, which he felt contributed to the atmosphere in the house.[36] The hotel room scene near the beginning of the film was filmed in a hotel suite at a location near Amsterdam.[37] The film was shot almost entirely in sequence, which Yennie stated helped the actors to develop their characters throughout the film.[10] The opening scene, which only featured Laser and de Wit, was shot on the last day of filming.[38]
Laser remained in character as Heiter during the filming process, often shouting at the rest of the cast on set,[13] but wherever possible staying away from the other actors and crew between scenes to preserve a level of separation.[39] He only ate food he had brought onto the set himself,[40] eating mostly fruit.[13] He contributed dialogue for his character and selected many of his character's outfits from his personal wardrobe.[41] Six claims the jacket Heiter wore, which was bought by Laser, was a genuine jacket worn by real Nazi doctors.[42] Laser was also happy for the other actors in The Human Centipede to add their own ideas to the film. For example, when Heiter is explaining his procedure to his victims, Katsuro's dialogue was improvised, which pleased Laser.[13] During filming Laser accidentally kicked Kitamura (Katsuro), leading to a fight on set between the actors. The incident contributed to the tension and anger throughout the scene they were filming, in which Heiter sits at his dining table eating while the centipede eats dog food from the floor alongside him.[43] Laser also hurt Williams during the scene when Heiter roughly grabs and injects Lindsay, which caused a pause in shooting before the filmmakers could continue.[44]
The Nazi influence behind Heiter led to the use of classical music when the doctor is "training" his centipede. The music was deliberately played at low quality to simulate the music coming from a loudspeaker, in much the same way as music was sometimes played in Nazi concentration camps.[45] Many of the sound effects in The Human Centipede were created by manipulating meat. For example, the sound of a nose being broken was made by snapping bones within cuts of raw meat.[46] Due to the discomfort of spending long periods on their hands and knees, the actors playing the centipede were given massages at the end of each day of filming.[47] Yennie stated that she and Williams experienced jaw pain from holding a bit in their mouths during filming, but overall she did not feel that the physical side of filming had been excessively difficult.[48]
Effects
When Heiter is operating on his victims, Jenny's teeth were digitally removed in post-production.[58] However, other effects were relatively simple to create. Heiter's 'three dog' was created by photoshopping an image of three Rottweilers to create an image of dogs joined together.[59] Colour grading was used extensively throughout the production of The Human Centipede. For example, at the end of the film when Lindsay is left between the dead bodies of Jenny and Katsuro, their skin tones were lightened to further emphasise that they were dead and Lindsay was still alive.[60]The Human Centipede contains relatively few gory images; little of the surgical procedure is depicted directly,[50] no excrement is shown on screen,[51] and according to Kim Newman in Empire, it is "never quite as outrageous as it threatens to be."[52] Six stated that he wanted the film to be as authentic as possible[53] and claimed to have consulted a Dutch surgeon during the creation and filming process,[5] resulting in the film being "100% medically accurate."[54] Six claims that the surgeon initially wanted nothing to do with his film, as he felt Six was "crazy" and the idea had "nothing to do with medical science." However, the surgeon changed his mind and decided that he in fact liked the idea, and so came up with a method of creating a human centipede.[55] Six has claimed that the central and rear members of the centipede could survive for years by supplementing their diet with an IV drip.[9] The special effects team was led by a father-and-son team, Rob Hillenbrink and son Erik.[7] They designed the final composition of the centipede from sketches provided by the consulting surgeon.[56] The actors that made up the centipede wore hardened underwear, compared by Yennie to shorts,[57] which had a rubber grip for the actors to wear for the actor behind on which to bite, creating the illusion of the mouth-to-anus connection.[13] Six kept how the centipede would be formed a secret until as late as possible, and Yennie claimed even her make-up artist did not know, asking Yennie what kind of "suit" the actors would be wearing.[10]
The rain when Jenny and Lindsay's car breaks down was added digitally in post-production.[61] The filmmakers had not been granted permission to film at the roadside location, but went ahead against the authorities' wishes as Tom Six felt the location in the woods was ideal for the scene.[62] When Heiter's window is repaired after Lindsay's escape attempt, the use of a tracking shot through the window pane required the reflection of the crew to be digitally removed from the glass.[63] The film contains a large number of long tracking shots,[64] Six has cited the influence of Takashi Miike who also uses many tracking shots in his films.[18]
[edit]Promotion and release
[edit]Promotion
During promotion for The Human Centipede, press materials claimed the film was "100% medically accurate."[54] Six and the producers frequently stated that the film had been described as "the most horrific film ever made",[65] and many writers, such as Karina Longworth of LA Weekly magazine[51] and Jay Stone of the Calgary Herald[66] described the film as torture porn. Roger Ebert, writing in theChicago Sun-Times stated he felt the film had been "deliberately intended to inspire incredulity, nausea and hopefully outrage."[17] However, writing in The Guardian, David Cox noted that he had been unable to trace the source of this quote as the "most horrific ever made" and had contacted Six to attempt to ascertain the origin of this judgement.[65] Six claimed the statement had originally been made by The Sun newspaper in the United Kingdom. However, Cox was unable to trace any article making this claim. When asked by Cox as to what Six regarded as the "most horrific" film, Six stated he in fact believed it to be Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.[65]
[edit]Theatrical
The Human Centipede was released in the United States with no Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating.[17] It was released theatrically in New York City on 30 April 2010 and had a limited release in the US shortly afterward, distributed by IFC Films.[67] During 2009 the film was included in several film festivals around the world including the London FrightFest Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival,[4] Sitges Film Festival,[68] and Screamfest Horror Film Festival.[4] Six remarked on how many film festival audiences reacted strongly to the film, sometimes almost vomiting in the cinema aisles. To Six's amusement, Spanish audiences often found the film funny, and laughed throughout screenings.[69] Six claimed that the "buzz"[70] surrounding the film led to several studios approaching him to discuss its distribution.[70] IFC Films has a history of releasing unconventional horror films, having previously distributed the Norwegian Nazi-zombie feature Dead Snow and the 2009 release Antichrist.[71] The Human Centipede's US gross was $181,467, and worldwide takings amounted to $252,207.[72]
The film was passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and released with an 18-rated certificate,[65] receiving a limited release in the UK on 20 August 2010.[73] It was distributed by Bounty Films.[65]
[edit]Home media
The Human Centipede was released in the United Kingdom on DVD and Blu-ray 4 October 2010[74] and in the US the following day,[75] where, as of September 2011, DVD sales have totalled $2,113,186.[76]
[edit]Reception
[edit]Critical
The Human Centipede generally received mixed reviews.[77] Review aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 50% 'Rotten' rating, based upon 90 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2 out of 10.[78] Among Rotten Tomatoes "Top Critics", which only considers the views of mainstream film critics, the film received a slightly lower rating of 44%, with an average rating of 4.5 from 9 reviews.[78]At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 33% based on 15 reviews.[79]
Giving the film three stars out of five, Empire writer Kim Newman stated that "underneath an extremely repulsive concept, this is a relatively conventional horror movie."[52] Variety Magazine writer Peter DeBurge criticised the film's lack of any form of social commentary, stating that it could not "be bothered to expand upon its unpleasant premise, inviting audiences to revel in its sick humor by favoring Dr. Heiter ... and characterizing the victims as shallow expendables."[80] Writing in Entertainment Weekly, Clark Collis was broadly positive about Dieter Laser's performance as the Doctor, and praised Six's direction, saying Six "has put together his nightmare yarn with Cronenbergian care and precision."[81] Collis said The Human Centipede was "without question one of the most disgusting horror films ever made."[81] Writing in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave the film three out of five, saying that whilst "entirely deplorable and revolting" the film was "sort of brilliant".[1] Total Film writer Jamie Russell gave the film four stars out of five, calling it "Shocking, funny, disturbing... a throwback to the glory days of Cronenberg".[82]
Sukhdev Sandhu in The Daily Telegraph was generally negative about the film, stating, "The Human Centipede has its moments, but they’re largely obscured by umpteen holes in the plot as well as by reams of exposition"[83] and that it was "an ultimately underwhelming affair that’s neither sick or repellent enough to garner the cult status it so craves."[83] The New York Times review by Jeannette Catsouli noted that it was unsure if the film was "a commentary on Nazi atrocities or a literal expression of filmmaking politics, [but] the grotesque fusion at least silences the female leads, both of whose voices could strip paint."[84] Writing in the Chicago Sun Times, Roger Ebert did not assign the film a star rating (as opposed to awarding it zero stars), stating, "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."[17]
Critics and a physician have dismissed Six's claim that the film was "100 percent medically accurate" as "ludicrous"[53] and "rubbish."[85] Dr John Cameron, speaking to TV3 News in New Zealand gave an interview about the feasibility of a human centipede, stating how he believed it would be difficult for a join between different people to heal and form a connection, and how the centipede would quickly die from lack of nutrition.[86] John Martin, a former Hollywood film executive and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas said Six's claims of 100 percent medical accuracy should be viewed with reference to the kind of shock gimmicks that film producers had long used to attract attention. Martin compared Six's claims to those of H. Kroger Babb and William Castle who had also made "grand promises" about what they were putting on screen in a bid to lure audiences.[53]
[edit]Accolade
Despite mixed reviews, the film won several awards in 2009 during advance screenings at various international horror film festivals, including Best Picture/Movie at Fantastic Fest (Austin, Texas),Screamfest Horror Film Festival (Los Angeles), and the Sainte Maxime International Horror Film Festival.[4] Laser won Best Actor in the horror category at Fantastic Fest and the film won the award for Best Ensemble Cast at the South African Horrorfest Film Festival.[4]
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