Yes, this is an over used screen shot, but look, just look at it, it sums up the entire film
Where to start. Well, “The Human Centipede (First Sequence)” is one of those films which you probably don’t get too excited about seeing in a conventional way, unless you’ve really got a thing for what is essentially Torture Porn. Kind of like the video nasty which is Cannibal Holocaust (go to Google, but definitely NSFW), we, as human beings, get a sick kind of pleasure in knowing that we are not in the situation the people in Cannibal Holocaust and now The Human Centipede are in.
Basically, The Human Centipede follows the story of three people captured by a brilliant, if criminally insane and deranged surgeon Dr. Heiter and taken to his underground lair. Down there, after the obligatory chase sequence, he performs a complex operation to create a human centipede, joined ass hole to mouth. I think we’re all grown up enough to acknowledge that the shock factor of this has been over played…BUT DUDE, It must really suck to be in the middle.
Yes, the film looks decidedly average, and the fact I got all that information from watching the trailer alone probably doesn’t leave too many surprises other than the inevitable eye-scrunching surgery. No doubt a friend of mine who happens to often acquire videos such as these will be sending it my way sooner rather than later.
The German actor who plays the Dr. is called Deiter Laser, and forms a very cool easter egg in this game...
Anyway, the lack of a licensed video game deal has meant there is a void in the ‘humans joined ass to mouth’ genre, so enterprising Newgrounds user Mockery has released a flash game based on the aforementioned film. Titled accurately Human Centipede, you play as the rifle armed Dr. Heiter, who after getting ambitious with his centipede project, faces rebellion as a long line of humans come crawling after him. Oh, and the odd police officer.
It plays just like the traditional game of Centipede, so is very easy to pick up and play, and thankfully doesn’t tie too closely with the film. It has Newgrounds medals supported and is a well made homage to Centipede, just, in a slightly different form…
In every effort to squeeze a tiny bit of video game related content out of stuff, an interview in the Telegraph with Quentin Tarantino, director of, amongst others, Inglorious Basterds, talks a little about everything and it’s an insightful interview on a lot of the mystery that goes into Tarantino’s film-making process.
He’s also asked at the end his take on a variety of topics, one of which is video games. According to the interview:
“I cannot get myself interested in video games. I’ve been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.”
Which is probably a good plan, because the game he must of been every so slightly involved in, or at least signed off on, was Reservoir Dogs in 2007. I’ve seen the film and played enough of the game to know that it wasn’t very good. Basically, rather than in the film, which doesn’t contain that much violence and doesn’t even show the bank heist take place, the game decides to do that wonderful video game trick of ‘making stuff up’.
I'm pretty sure they thought at this point "Hey, let's copy the widely distrubuted screenshot of GTA III with him standing on a bridge with a Sniper Rifle, SELL SELL SELL"
So, because we want blood, guts and violence in games (though I’m not entirely sure what else they could of put in the game if I’m honest), Volatile Games decided to add a driving section, shooting sections, hell, even a system, which if I remember correctly, encouraged you kill as many people as possible.
Which funnily enough doesn’t coincide with Tarantino’s quote on violence in films, as (again, this is from memory) in the game, once you got shot, it was a bit like “oh well” and you trudged on through. Nothing like;
“I tend to be attracted to genres that deal freely in violence. If a character is shot in the stomach, I want to see him bleeding like a stuck pig. It shouldn’t look like a stomach ache. His stomach has been pierced. His gastric juices are running all over the place. It’s a horrible thing. And the film has to deal with that.”
You can tell he’s been thinking about that. Anyway, I actually do like a lot of Tarentino’s films, and thankfully the gaming experience has been a quick play of one poor game, so I can’t hold that against him too much. I highly recommend if you are even slightly interested checking out the interview, as it’s an occasionally personal insight into a guy not many people know about.
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About a year ago, I was able to take the moral high ground. Whenever any of my friends mentioned the word “Lost” I was able to scoff at them with a certain disdain. Looking from the outside in, the show is a pile of nonsensical drivel that spends more time causing the viewer to scream “What the f**k?” at the television set then actually engage them in any real drama. In fact, I was always keen to point this out to anyone who dared try and promote the show to me. Unfortunately, the persistence got to me and on the 29th of March, 2009 I downloaded Lost season 1 from iTunes… the beginning of the end.
