The Human Centipede
What do we go to the movies for? Surely it's for entertainment, a few laughs and to get away from life and the real world for a couple of hours... right?
So can someone please explain to me why we would want to go and see a horror movie that follows a doctor surgically attaching people together.
If you haven't heard of this movie I'm talking about The Human Centipede, directed by Tom Six, which takes the horror movie to a whole other level.
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree roadtrip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods.
Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon who explains his mad scientific vision to his captives’ utter horror.
They are to be the subjects of his sick lifetime fantasy: to be the first to connect people, one to the next, via their gastric system, and in doing so bring to life 'the human centipede'.
Not content with movies that show human murder and torture for pleasure, yes I'm talking about the god awful Hostel movies, but now cinema has moved onto the biological horror in a bid to 'entertain' us.
But is this really entertainment? Why would anyone want to go and see a movie with such a premise? Have we become so numb to the violence that we see on the big screen that this is a movie that we are going to enjoy?
Rodney Perkins wrote for Fantasticfest: "Tom Six's The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is an insane biological horror film that enthusiastically explores territory that few filmmakers dare to tread."
There may be a reason that directors haven't strayed to this type of movie... probably because, surely, there isn't an audience for this type of film.
Movies like Saw and Hostel have gone on to be a huge success, but that doesn't make them good or entertaining movies, but has this genre of torture porn gone too far?
Now I appreciate that violence has always been a major part of the movies but a film that makes your skin crawl just reading about it really can't be a comfortable watch.
I'm all for movies that break boundaries and are something different and new but I'm thinking more along the lines of Avatar, great family filled fun that everyone can kick back and enjoy, not some deranged surgeon trying to sew people together.
Despite the gross sounding plot curiosity will probably win out and I'm sure that The Human Centipede will enjoy a certain amount of box office success.
And while everyone has the right to choose what it is they want to see can someone please tell me why they would want to sit through a movie like this?
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw