Fucked up movies.

[Smagmuck_]

Ah, the description of the Human Centipede on Wikipedia paints such a glorious image in your mind, does it not?

Perfect thing to link if someone has annoyed you online and you need to get swift and mind fuckery revenge. Just sayin'.

Anyway, to answer your questions in order, including the WTF one.

]1) Everyone's initial reaction to such a thing, unless you are the user who told me of the films existence. I also know two people on this site that have seen it who shall not be named. Both found it to be "Meh." they said.

You can consider me someone who has also seen it.

Yeah, it's meh.

So that's three or four, going by this thread. I may need to look it up and freak out.

I was one of those who flipped out. THANKS SASS.
Bastard. XP

 

[Krion_Vark]

Well, Requiem for a Dream is definitely a weird as heck movie. I know, I know, so many people say it's a masterpiece, but I just don't see it. The parts with the mother's fridge coming to life kinda freaked me out.

It is a Master piece of a movie. BUT my reaction after it was over was WTF did I just watch

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

After watching MovieBob's review of Splice, I decided to look up his Human Centipede reference. Just to see what it's about. What the fuck? Why would anyone make this? Who wants to see this? What is the scientific advancement found in making a human centipede? What's the fucking point? I just don't get it. Why do people make movies like this? What movies have scarred you for life?
-Note: DO NOT add a description of the movie or link to it in any way. Seriously.

To answer all your questions, I believe the somebody is simple insane. Weather it is the director or the mad scientist, I don't know. I am kind of think that it is some kind of joke, since from what I have seen from the trailer, the acting walks the fine line between Airplane! overly serious parody acting and Blind Side bad serious acting. Of course, I am never going to see the film to know, but that is my two cents.

As for messed up films, I don't think one can get more mind bending then

A Clockwork Orange

Man, somebody got it first!

 

[Internet Kraken]

The human centipede is actually based on a real experiment performed on prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp.

The Nazi's also taped a woman's eyes open, placed a mirror over her breasts, and then cut them off. She had to watch the whole thing because her eyes couldn't shut. Yet you don't see anyone making a movie about that.

And to answer your question, haven't seen any movies that have really have a major impact on me. This is because I am a very squeemish person so I tend to avoid horror and gross-out movies. It's also because I just hate the lack of logic and common sense in these type of movies. Most of the time the scientists don't have any reason to preform the experiment other than pure insanity. Or whenever they make a significant advancement in a certain field of science like genetic modification, their first thought is "oh hey, let's use a human for the next experiment. FOR SCIENCE!!!!!!!!".

Also my brother described Human Centipede as a scat/body horror porn turned into an entire film. I'm guessing that's what it originally started out as. Then the director figured he might be able to wring some money out of the general public through the shock value.

 

[Sassafrass]

Dare you click this, I wonder... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWUdpsDiK6w]

Aheh...Lok, a sparkly thingy! *Flees*

But in all fairness, you did ninja me.
I needed revenge, dammit and seeing as I can't ninja people, that is what I come up with.
Mind fucky revenge.

I really wouldn't bother. The only really 'disturbing' thing about it is the concept. There's very little explicitness shown in the actual execution. I found the movie to be pretty dull overall.

Oh, OK.

I should probably sleep now. Gotta get up in about 4 hours.

 

[Vrex360]

I still think Dead Alive, or Brain Dead depending on the title change, is one of the most ridiculously gory and grotesque movies ever made and I had to try really hard to avoid throwing up towards the end of it.
It's been about two years and I still have just barely recovered.

 

[Sprizmo]

Gozu: A chick who claims to be dude's brother actually gives birth to the dude's full grown brother right in front of him. Audition: I still can't finish watching that chick gleefully sawing off that poor guys feet with razor wire. All because she didn't get a part in a movie? Sheesh. Oldboy: The master plan was to get an enemy to sleep with his own daughter that he was kept from since her birth. Uzumaki: Everyone in town starts physically turning into spirals. When I think of fucked up movies all those come to mind. Man those Asians...

 

[zehydra]

The human centipede is actually based on a real experiment performed on prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp.

The Nazi's also taped a woman's eyes open, placed a mirror over her breasts, and then cut them off. She had to watch the whole thing because her eyes couldn't shut. Yet you don't see anyone making a movie about that.

And to answer your question, haven't seen any movies that have really have a major impact on me. This is because I am a very squeemish person so I tend to avoid horror and gross-out movies. It's also because I just hate the lack of logic and common sense in these type of movies. Most of the time the scientists don't have any reason to preform the experiment other than pure insanity. Or whenever they make a significant advancement in a certain field of science like genetic modification, their first thought is "oh hey, let's use a human for the next experiment. FOR SCIENCE!!!!!!!!".

Also my brother described Human Centipede as a scat/body horror porn turned into an entire film. I'm guessing that's what it originally started out as. Then the director figured he might be able to wring some money out of the general public through the shock value.

Oh they will. If there's anything disturbing out there, there will be a horror movie made of it. It's kind of like rule 34.

 

[Kontar]

After watching MovieBob's review of Splice, I decided to look up his Human Centipede reference. Just to see what it's about. What the fuck? Why would anyone make this? Who wants to see this? What is the scientific advancement found in making a human centipede? What's the fucking point? I just don't get it. Why do people make movies like this? What movies have scarred you for life?
-Note: DO NOT add a description of the movie or link to it in any way. Seriously.

Human Centipede isn't really that bad, it's strange, but no more gory, disturbing or pointless than any of the Saw movies IMHO. Most horror movies don't have a point, they exist to freak us out, disturb us, startle us, etc. In this regard I think Human Centipede succeeded.

OT: I can't say I have ever seen a movie that scarred me for life. Although when I saw the movie IT when I was about 6 I was scared for weeks, maybe months.

Edit: Oh yeah Pet Cemetary scared me for a long time when I saw it as a wee child ... Now that I think of it, maybe I have become desensitized to horror movies due to all of them that I watched when I was younger than 10.

 

[TheRocketeer]

Well, The Wall, for one.

 

[Ian S]

Ah, the description of the Human Centipede on Wikipedia paints such a glorious image in your mind, does it not?

Perfect thing to link if someone has annoyed you online and you need to get swift and mind fuckery revenge. Just sayin'.

Anyway, to answer your questions in order, including the WTF one.

]1) Everyone's initial reaction to such a thing, unless you are the user who told me of the films existence. I also know two people on this site that have seen it who shall not be named. Both found it to be "Meh." they said.

You can consider me someone who has also seen it.

Yeah, it's meh.

So that's three or four, going by this thread. I may need to look it up and freak out.

I really wouldn't bother. The only really 'disturbing' thing about it is the concept. There's very little explicitness shown in the actual execution. I found the movie to be pretty dull overall.

I've seen it, and I guess I must have lead a pretty sheltered life then if you found it boring, because I found it to be genuinely disturbing from start to finish, and I've seen stuff like Clockwork Orange before. Not to mention played games like Dead Space and Dante's Inferno. Even after the operation, what the doctor does to these people psychologically in terms of trying to break their will and treating them as some kind of pet was also horrifying. In the back of my head I was reminded of guys like [a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Heidnik]Gary Heidnik[/a] and what he did (growing up near Philadelphia as a teenager, it was a big story at the time), and the stories of kidnap victims like Jaycee Dugard and Elizabeth Smart.

I find it interesting that the reactions people have to this movie are all across the board. Some people like me found it genuinely frightening and disturbing but well-acted, others look at it the completely opposite way, see it as boring like you did, or even found it to be funny. Personally I can't see that. I don't know if it's because of differing personal values, exposure to certain things or what. All I know is I found it to be the most disturbing thing I've seen in my life, and it's still with me two weeks after having seen it.

 

[Canid117]

Whats it called? August Underground? Autumn Underground? I don't remember but apparently it got a the creator arrested as he was crossing the U.S. Canada border because the border guards found it in his trunk and thought it was real.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Hostel...Oh god it's back!

 

[zombiesinc]

Y'know... I've only recently heard of Human Centipede... pretty disturbing thought. Not sure if I'd ever want to watch it.

Takashi Miike's Imprint was pretty disturbing. As was 3 Extremes I & II.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

The Audition was pretty fucked up (it's an Asian movie)

 

[Rylot]

It wasn't all that scary at the time but "Paranormal State" stayed with me for a while. Just kinda in the back of my mind and I just couldn't seem to shake it.

 

[Billion Backs]

The human centipede is actually based on a real experiment performed on prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp.

Yes, sure it is. And the movie "Eraserhead" is a documentary on FBI and CIA experiments on the effects and potential use of LSD as a mind control drug.

Although that still seems a lot more probable then what you said.