Dutch surgery-themed horror film The Human Centipede is remarkable in that it’s one of very few efforts in cinema that has garnered an almost universally consistent response: repulsion. Legendary film critic Roger Ebert was so freaked out by it that he refused to give the film a rating at all (even forgoing his usual zero star rating for cinema’s truly heinous filmmaking efforts) explaining that “[usually] I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don’t shine.” It seems that while film audiences can happily watch heads get chopped off, babies get barbecued, pet dogs get stabbed and people eating the heads off other people, the one thing that people cannot “stomach” is human poo. For anyone unfamiliar with the storyline, you can head to The Human Centipede wikipedia profile to get a detailed synopsis – at your own peril.
Just as you thought shit couldn’t get any uglier, the controversial film’s writer and director Tom Six has come forward with the announcement that a sequel called The Human Centipede Part 2 (Full Sequence) is being made for a 2011 release date, and has been quoted as saying the sequel will make the first film seem like “My Little Pony compared with part two.”
Incidentally, a pornographic parody of the film entitled The Human Sexipede, will be released in October 2010.
Via Collider
