The Human Centipede

[TheVern]

"Irreversible" and "Jaws" to this day still give me nightmares. I think they are great works of art but they still scare me. I need a new movie to give me nightmares. I'm hoping "The Human Centipede" will fill that void

 

[STDiva]

Martyrs.

Great movie.

 

[Gameboy]

The only part that shocked me in the trailer was when the people where all bound... mouth to anus.. haha... and the guy was yelling at them to move.

Another silly movie about tourist getting kidnapped and tortured.

 

[mrtrebus]

great movie.

wrong!

 

[STDiva]

Agreed!

:thumbsup:

 

[L3ggy]

And those films are?........

: takes out pen and paper :

The Hellraiser movies are more bizarre if you ask me & of course the movies Whimsy mentioned

 

[Shifty]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)
Wolf Creek
The Hills Have Eyes

Were all ruthless and twisted. :2 cents:

 

[JakeSnake]

:wtf:.

 

[cartman24]

This reaction (to the trailer) is classic.

 

[L3ggy]

What a whimp!

 

[sporty_carr]

Header was supposed to be a pretty gruesome movie, but I just thought it was pretty silly. I liked Martyrs, but it didn't really disturb me or anything (don't know what that says about me). I haven't seen Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q or any of those yet.

One scene that does make me cringe everytime I see it is in Touristas. The scene where the doctor performs surgery on the girl while she's awake makes me feel uneasy every time for some reason.

 

[Boothbabe]

I truly don't understand why Martyrs was ever made. Besides letting us know the makers have a sick and depraved kind of creativity it's completely pointless. It's nothing more than misogynistic torture porn and has nothing to do with horror. Drag me to hell, The thing, alien, A nightmare on Elm street, that's horror.

 

[STDiva]

Drag me to hell, that's horror

 

[Boothbabe]

Sam Raimi is god.

 

[mrtrebus]

I truly don't understand why Martyrs was ever made. Besides letting us know the makers have a sick and depraved kind of creativity it's completely pointless. It's nothing more than misogynistic torture porn and has nothing to do with horror. Drag me to hell, The thing, alien, A nightmare on Elm street, that's horror.

Mmm, well the issue is that horror is a subjective thing. What one person finds horrifying another doesn’t and horror itself is quite varied. For example something like Drag Me To Hell is more a fun ghost train style horror, very different to the likes of Martyrs.
I didn’t thing Martyrs was great, it fell apart totally in the final act but it was unsettling & uncomfortable viewing which is what it was aiming for. Yes it does fit into the torture porn category but was more interesting than most of the stuff coming out of America which has violent scenes where you get the feeling that the makers are loving how cool the gory FX are. The recent French crop of horror films are rawer experiences. They do often involve female protagonists being abused but often these women also come out the other side, they survive and are more interesting characters than what you get in American movies. Even Martyrs which could be labelled as misogynistic is a rarity in horror in that there are no male hero characters to save the female in distress. Even if the females are victims they are far more proactive than in similar movies made in Hollywood.

 

[STDiva]

Ya those Spiderman flicks he did were fuckin sic.

 

[Boothbabe]

I didn’t thing Martyrs was great, it fell apart totally in the final act but it was unsettling & uncomfortable viewing which is what it was aiming for.

Making a truly scary movie without showing anything is a much bigger accomplishment imo. The Others is a good examle. They created a very eerie atmoshpere without any gore, everything was done with the power of suggestion. That takes real talent.

 

[on]

is that perhaps maybe Baconsalt's film writing creation!

 

[mrtrebus]

Making a truly scary movie without showing anything is a much bigger accomplishment imo. The Others is a good examle. They created a very eerie atmoshpere without any gore, everything was done with the power of suggestion. That takes real talent.

It depends on the intention though doesn't it. The Others (which by the way was a bit of a rip off of The Innocents) was indeed a great movie but it was a different type of horror to something like Martyrs. The tone/style of The Others just would not have worked.

 

[Boothbabe]

To me Martyrs was just an exercise in lazy film making. Two girls go on a vengeance trip, one gets killed and one gets caught by some secret society looking for answers as to what comes after death. They constantly beat her up, skin her alive and leave her to die. A 10 yr old could do better.