What better way to kick off my first blog post in over a year than with a movie review about a guy who sews people together via their digestive systems?
Yup. A demented surgeon kidnaps some people and then surgically combines them, mouth to ass, all sharing the same intestines. Or intestine. I'm a little confused about that part. If any medical people are reading this, drop me a detailed explanation. And illustrations.
I'm sure that this will come as a huge surprise, but it's not a good movie. Besides being completely ludacris, it's poorly acted and at some points a little dull. Yet, it's the freshest movie the horror genre has seen in 20 years. I don't have any proof about that last sentence. But hear me out. When was the last time you saw a horror movie with a zombie, a ghost, a monster, someone that came back from the dead in an unpleasant manner or someone that had something sharp instead of a hand. My guess is yesterday. There just aren't that many different ways to kill people.
But The Human Centipede manages to trump all by having an unusually low body count, never really showing anything too gory, and focusing on utter lack of humanity. When it comes to concept, this guy nails it. And it manages to climax in a horrible worse case scenario that for once, is truly satisfying.
It's the kind of of movie that you may never have the privilege of ever being able to forget. Five stars.
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