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The most disturbing movie ever made?
CNN ^ | Breeanna Hare

Posted on 05/13/2010 1:15:59 PM PDT by big black dog

If the title alone isn't enough to make you squirm, a brief rundown of the premise for the indie horror movie, "The Human Centipede," certainly will. Any film involving three humans sharing a single digestive tract obviously isn't aiming to be easy on the eyes.

Yet director/writer Tom Six's portrayal of a crazed surgeon who takes his skills at separating conjoined twins and uses them to create his own living human insect has left some critics appalled that it was even created; venerated critic Roger Ebert didn't think his star rating system was even applicable.

"No horror film I've seen inflicts more terrible things on its victims than 'The Human Centipede,'" Ebert wrote in his review. "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 it occupies a world where the stars don't shine."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cinema; film; movies
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To: dfwgator
I’ve never been able to sit through THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.
I don't think anyone has actually sat through it sober.


i've seen it sober.. and a number of other ways. love that movie.
61 posted on 05/13/2010 1:59:12 PM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
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To: HerrBlucher

Eight legged freaks gave me nightmares for weeks. Will never watch it agan.


62 posted on 05/13/2010 2:00:19 PM PDT by diamond6 (Pray the Rosary to defeat communism and Obamacare!!)
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To: I still care
I’m a girl. The only magazines I ever had were Teen Beat and 16. LOL.

Uhhhh, okay then........

Disclaimer: I wan't talking from experience......any attempts to imply I was should be directed to my attorney.

63 posted on 05/13/2010 2:01:16 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Peanut butter was just peanut butter until I found Free Republic.........)
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To: SparkyBass

Those are hilarious!


64 posted on 05/13/2010 2:01:37 PM PDT by diamond6 (Pray the Rosary to defeat communism and Obamacare!!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I knew a “Dune” fan would kick...


65 posted on 05/13/2010 2:02:03 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: dockkiller

...and don’t skimp on the pate!


66 posted on 05/13/2010 2:04:51 PM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

It was not too disturbing..nothing really graphic..liked it!~


67 posted on 05/13/2010 2:05:20 PM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: HerrBlucher

Best spider movie ever made:

Kingdom of the Spiders


68 posted on 05/13/2010 2:05:57 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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From my childhood, Invaders from Mars. Bugged me for years...


69 posted on 05/13/2010 2:09:49 PM PDT by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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To: RandallFlagg
Oh, my aching goiter, I never knew about that one! What an amazing piece of cinematic genius!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEutHPsF548

70 posted on 05/13/2010 2:09:52 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: big black dog

Some horror movie buff friends of mine saw it a couple of months ago. Their reaction was that it was mostly stupid and boring, but that the guy who plays the mad scientist, Dieter Laser, made it worth watching. I believe that the comment was “He’s like a creepy Klaus Kinski.”


71 posted on 05/13/2010 2:11:00 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: big black dog
"Trilogy of Terror" was a B-movie consisting of three stories. One of the stories involved a woman who bought an Aboriginal Warrior Doll. The doll had big teeth and carried a spear. She was warned that the doll contained the spirit of an Aboriginal Warrior and it would come to life if she removed the chain from around its neck.

She did and it did.

It scared the hell out of me when I was about 5 years old...

72 posted on 05/13/2010 2:11:43 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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To: RandallFlagg

Kingdom of the Spiders reminded me of an equally made ‘70’s flick: KILLDOZER!!!

Nothing is more frightening than a D9 slowly coming after. And I do mean SLOWLY! :)


73 posted on 05/13/2010 2:12:09 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: big black dog

“Near Dark” is the most intense vampire movie around.


74 posted on 05/13/2010 2:12:21 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: big black dog


The most disturbing movie ever made?

Even though I liked the film, and have seen about every war movie
(esp. WWII-era) made...
“Platoon” disturbed me.
For a couple weeks after I saw it, I found images of the film popping
into my mind’s eye.

I thought this must be how people that ACTUALLY experience real war
can end up with PTSD.


75 posted on 05/13/2010 2:14:06 PM PDT by VOA
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To: big black dog

I don’t remember the names of the episodes but it was the one with the cannibal Yum Yum EatEmUP going after the Little Rascals. Couldn’t sleep for weeks as a kid after I saw it.


76 posted on 05/13/2010 2:16:18 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Grizzled Bear
"...an Aboriginal Warrior Doll. The doll had big teeth and carried a spear."

Oh, man... flashback. I remember that one also giving me nightmares around the same age!

77 posted on 05/13/2010 2:16:33 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: Hot Tabasco; dead
"Eraserhead was as creepy as it gets.

Beat me to it I see........I couldn't even watch it to its end."

Yeah. I couldn't make it through the first time either. Or the second.
Another truly awful film was Warhol's Frankenstein.

78 posted on 05/13/2010 2:20:16 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: wbill

oh now, Damon Wayans as Major Payne was pretty good


79 posted on 05/13/2010 2:31:53 PM PDT by madamemayhem (defeat isn't getting knocked down, it's not getting back up)
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To: big black dog
Silence of the Lambs. Most horror movies make me go "Eek, eek, Jason has a weedwhacker. Eek! (eye roll)" Silence of the Lambs just creeped me out because there are people out there like that. How many movies make you want to buy more ammo?

Battlefield Earth. Awful movie from an awful book from and awful pseudoreligion. If the Acadamy of Motion Pictures had a death penalty, everyone involved in this would get it.

The Ice Storm. A movie of awful, unsympathetic characters. How many movies do you say "I wish more of the stars died in the end"?

80 posted on 05/13/2010 2:35:14 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
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