Is The Human Centipede The Most Disgusting Film?
Tom Six's film The Human Centipede: The First Sequence is a well done first feature from a filmmaker, but is it the most disgusting film ever made? Simply put, no. The biggest problem with this film is the hype machine behind it. "A friend of a friend saw it and nearly threw up," or "people walked out of the theater because it was too disturbing." We've seen this happen before, more recently with Eli Roth's oeuvre from Cabin Fever to Hostel 2 or with the Saw series. Torture porn is made to feed the darkness within, the unconscious or conscious part of ourselves that wants to see the body opened up and put through ghastly horrors. The thirst for this type of horror is not new only the special effects that make them possible are. Torture porn is a direct reflection of our social climate since the Iraq war began and we started seeing leaked decapitation videos streaming online. It is humanities ability to ...