Cactus Annie
Refugee
I loved this film. It's probably one of my favorite horror flicks of all time.
Spoiler (don't read this if you want to watch it yourself but it does explain the entire plot at the back of the DVD) Two teenage girls get lost in Germany whilst on holiday and stumble across a house belonging to Dr Hieter. He offers them a drink and call a taxi for them. However, instead he drugs them, holds them captive, kidnaps a 3rd tourist and reveals his sick lifelong fantasy of creating a 'new' species and a pet for himself- The human centipede.
My verdict 5/5. At last an original horror film that is genuinely shocking and scary, everything what a horror film should aim for. According to the socialist elite this would make me a bad person but to me they are just like what George Orwell predicted in 1984, exstream left-wing thought police. I've seen 3 of the Saw films, The Audition and both Hostel 1 & 2 as have thousands of other people. I honestly don't think watching these films turns a good citizen into a psychotic blood thirsty maniac. Anti-social behavior has more to do with population rise and the wealth disparities, lack of opportunities and poor housing that come with it. But of cause these issues take longer and a far more difficult to tackle than censoring and banning films (like what the UK regulators have done with Human Centipede 2 ). But then people much prefer easy answers to difficult questions when it comes to human psychology and it gives the press an issue to chew over as they whip up gullible members of society into a frenzy as they try and impose their beliefs onto others because they arrogantly believe that they shape what society think.
Anyway back to the original Human Centipede film. I found that the camera work was actually stunning and the structure of the script gave it the feel of an art-narrative film. It isn't until near the end of the film do we know the backstory of the Japanese character. We don't know a lot about the two American girls either, but we get sympathy for them due to their situation. This is also apparent in films like Requiem For A Dream and Run Lola Run. The director and writer Tom Six employs some skilled camera movements, shots and even a time sequence which is sometimes used in other horror/art narrative films such as The Boogeyman and Eraserhead. Unlike many horror films there are no dark dingy scenes, other than when Dr Heiter is explaining the operation. When we see the human centipede for the first time the scene is bathed in sunlight from a window and there are a few other scenes that are similar to what you see in horror director Dario Argento who also shots scenes with a keen eye for art.
There's also some black comedy, which some people don't get. Tom Six said that he wrote the film after being inspired about the Nazi war experiments. The central character Dr Josef Heiter name was taken from three notorious nazi doctors, he wears a nazi white coat during the film and there's also a Japanese character in the film. Six also says that this film also portrays his worst nightmares. He also hates surgery, going under anesthesia as someone cuts into you and you've got no control over it. He also hate needles, hospitals, the thought of numerous cords sticking in you and being attached to a machine and the overall sterile environment in a hospital. This is also my worst nightmare, which must also be why I found this film scary.
Spoiler (don't read this if you want to watch it yourself but it does explain the entire plot at the back of the DVD) Two teenage girls get lost in Germany whilst on holiday and stumble across a house belonging to Dr Hieter. He offers them a drink and call a taxi for them. However, instead he drugs them, holds them captive, kidnaps a 3rd tourist and reveals his sick lifelong fantasy of creating a 'new' species and a pet for himself- The human centipede.
My verdict 5/5. At last an original horror film that is genuinely shocking and scary, everything what a horror film should aim for. According to the socialist elite this would make me a bad person but to me they are just like what George Orwell predicted in 1984, exstream left-wing thought police. I've seen 3 of the Saw films, The Audition and both Hostel 1 & 2 as have thousands of other people. I honestly don't think watching these films turns a good citizen into a psychotic blood thirsty maniac. Anti-social behavior has more to do with population rise and the wealth disparities, lack of opportunities and poor housing that come with it. But of cause these issues take longer and a far more difficult to tackle than censoring and banning films (like what the UK regulators have done with Human Centipede 2 ). But then people much prefer easy answers to difficult questions when it comes to human psychology and it gives the press an issue to chew over as they whip up gullible members of society into a frenzy as they try and impose their beliefs onto others because they arrogantly believe that they shape what society think.
Anyway back to the original Human Centipede film. I found that the camera work was actually stunning and the structure of the script gave it the feel of an art-narrative film. It isn't until near the end of the film do we know the backstory of the Japanese character. We don't know a lot about the two American girls either, but we get sympathy for them due to their situation. This is also apparent in films like Requiem For A Dream and Run Lola Run. The director and writer Tom Six employs some skilled camera movements, shots and even a time sequence which is sometimes used in other horror/art narrative films such as The Boogeyman and Eraserhead. Unlike many horror films there are no dark dingy scenes, other than when Dr Heiter is explaining the operation. When we see the human centipede for the first time the scene is bathed in sunlight from a window and there are a few other scenes that are similar to what you see in horror director Dario Argento who also shots scenes with a keen eye for art.
There's also some black comedy, which some people don't get. Tom Six said that he wrote the film after being inspired about the Nazi war experiments. The central character Dr Josef Heiter name was taken from three notorious nazi doctors, he wears a nazi white coat during the film and there's also a Japanese character in the film. Six also says that this film also portrays his worst nightmares. He also hates surgery, going under anesthesia as someone cuts into you and you've got no control over it. He also hate needles, hospitals, the thought of numerous cords sticking in you and being attached to a machine and the overall sterile environment in a hospital. This is also my worst nightmare, which must also be why I found this film scary.