The most buzzed about movie in the last year or so has to be The Human Centipede (First Sequence). Of course, you won’t find it at your local Blockbuster, so the wife finally managed to track it down on the Internet just so we could find out why this movie made people wretch and squirm and turn their head away in pure disgust (if you believe what you read in cyberspace, some people were so turned off by this movie that they walked out of test screenings). So, what’s the big deal then? Ass-to-mouth, that’s what, but not the porno version. More of a literal, torturous version. There’s no doubt that writer/director Tom Six has a twisted mind (again, if you believe what you read in cyberspace the idea for this movie stems from a joke he made about punishing child molesters by sewing their mouths to a trucker’s ass) because the nature of this movie falls right off the scale, and it is indeed stomach-turning, but I wasn’t as shocked by the gratuity of this film as much as others seem to have been. Maybe it was all the hype, but I was let down by its sicko factor.
Posted by Jeff on Jul 25 2010 in Movies
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In the first movie, you’ve got these six chicks, all of ‘em adrenaline junkies, who take a vacation in the Appalachian Mountains to go cave diving. Although it’s more like cave crawling, because these are unexplored caves without much room, see, and since the goal of these movies, as much as I can gather, is to make you squirm one way or another, they lean heavily on the claustrophobic button. So there they are, crawling through rocky cracks deep in the Earth’s belly, in these unmarked, unexplored caves (because that’s more of a thrill despite the fact that no one knows where you are) with dust, debris, and water falling all around them. They don’t really know where the hell they’re going, so they just keep making their way deeper and deeper. Then there’s a mini avalanche of some sort and their only way out has just been cut off. The rocks also fell on one of their equipment bags; the one with the rope, so that’s a major setback. Anyway, this shit goes on for about an hour, and will only really make you uncomfortable if you hate the dark and have a major fear of being trapped in a small space. Or buried alive. For everyone else it’s 60 minutes of watching six women crawl around in caves. But then, finally, the cave monsters show up.