Viewfinder General has learnt some very important social lessons this last couple of months. The most important of which is probably ‘Don’t talk about The Human Centipede around people you’ve only just met’.
Trouble is, at the time I’d only just heard about it and as I couldn’t find any news about a UK distribution there was no culturally sanctioned outlet for my excitement. So it was that around the table at a friend’s birthday dinner I start spewing forth about how much I wanted to see three people stitched mouth-to-anus by a mad German scientist.
I’m not sure I even mentioned that this was a plotline from a film.
This is a movie written and directed by Dutch artist Tom Six. Two American girls and a Japanese boy stumble across the home of a surgeon who wastes no time in pulling teeth and slicing buttocks in order to assemble his twelve-limbed single-oesophagused creature.
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All signs point to this being great and the first truly horrifying horror in quite a little while. If nothing else it should at least force Eli Roth and the makers of the Saw franchise to think about what they’re doing and will be one of the few films released in recent years that Hollywood won’t immediately jump on and start remaking (This means YOU Let Me In).
It had a showing at FilmFour’s Frightfest in August and since then it’s all gone very quiet. There is some talk of a February 2010 release for UK residents, but these are only rumours (and unfounded rumours at that).
