in the end you are just left with a stupid movie about sewing mouths to asses

[sacredchao23]

I was going to include this in a breakdown of movies I've seen recently but decided I really had more to say about than that. A while ago, from what I felt was a strange sense of duty to the horror genre, I watched Human Centipede: First Sequence. My interest was the kind of prurient curiosity that got the this piece of ridiculous crap recognition

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[d_aulnoy]

I'd somehow managed to miss any and all mention of this. For a sec, there, I thought you were creatively reviewing an imaginary movie to highlight the idiotic depths to which modern cinema had sunk in its pursuit of increasingly jaded audiences.

MY BAD. Wikipedia tells me this is, a) real, and, b) apparently intended as a comment on Nazi experimentation. I am appalled on so many levels, oh, my god, like woah, etc.

[sacredchao23]

I only wish I had made it up. It got a lot of attention from the indie horror scene when it came out, and was, unfortunately greeted mostly positively. Which says a lot about the state of the genre (at least in film.) It is a gross film, and I'm okay with gross as long as there is a point to it, which in this case there isn't. And of course I should have known that coming in (it's one of the reasons I avoid most slasher films.)

While Six may claim that it somehow says something about Nazism, there's no connection, no commentary, nothing. The claim to commentary just functions as his excuse, it's so he can say "you see, my nasty film isn't just nastiness for the sake of nastiness, its about something." I doubt he knows or cares that his claim to commentary is more offensive than anything he put on the screen