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JamesG · 05-07-2010, 09:36 PM

Horror Film Gets No Rating From MPAA, No Star From Ebert

The horror film The Human Centipede is opening in a handful of theaters this weekend. It was not submitted to the MPAA for a rating.

The Chicago Sun-Times’s Roger Ebert is awarding it no stars as well.

In his review, he writes: “I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film.”

The movie deals with a mad doctor, a surgeon who once separated conjoined twins and now goes about capturing victims and perform reverse surgery, bonding them end to end so that they have a common digestive system.

“No horror film I’ve seen inflicts more terrible things on its victims than The Human Centipede,” Ebert writes. Nevertheless, he says that within Dutch director Tom Six, “there stirs the soul of a dark artist.”

Likewise, Mark Olsen wrote earlier this week in the Los Angeles Times:

“Centipede is at once arduously rough to sit through and compelling. There’s a real film hidden beneath the hooky idea.”

And in an interview with New York’s Village Voice, Six himself acknowledged that during test screenings, “Some people walk out of the cinemas, others can’t stop laughing, and if people are eating during the movie, they are vomiting their food out because they didn’t expect this to happen. It has a lot of influence on people’s emotions.”

-IMDB News

Retro4Life · 05-07-2010, 10:24 PM

Just in time for Mother's Day!!

JamesG · 05-07-2010, 11:08 PM

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Just in time for Mother's Day!!

Actually, the Mother's Day remake should have been out now...

I actually want to see this one. Horror reviewers have been giving it more positive feedback and it's being praised for its medical accuracy.

For movies like this you don't really go for mainstream critic opinions.

Retro4Life · 05-07-2010, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by JamesG

Actually, the Mother's Day remake should have been out now...

I actually want to see this one. Horror reviewers have been giving it more positive feedback and it's being praised for its medical accuracy.

For movies like this you don't really go for mainstream critic opinions.

I agree. Very few mainstream film reviewers have much time for horror movies in general. Not that 95 percent of them aren't utter drek, but you have to at least be OPEN to the possibility of them being good, because when they are, they are very, very good.

Personally looking forward to "Splice" and "Super 8".

Torgo · 05-10-2010, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by JamesG

Actually, the Mother's Day remake should have been out now...

I actually want to see this one. Horror reviewers have been giving it more positive feedback and it's being praised for its medical accuracy.

For movies like this you don't really go for mainstream critic opinions.

I've heard from some people who love these kinds of movies and they didn't like it...same goes for "Srpski film"...though the former I am curious about.

JamesG · 05-10-2010, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Torgo

I've heard from some people who love these kinds of movies and they didn't like it...same goes for "Srpski film"...though the former I am curious about.

Is that "A Serbian Film" about the porn star hired by a murdering director?

Torgo · 05-11-2010, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesG

Is that "A Serbian Film" about the porn star hired by a murdering director?

Yes

05-07-2010, 09:36 PM	#1
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,136	Movie Reviews: "The Human Centipede" Horror Film Gets No Rating From MPAA, No Star From Ebert The horror film The Human Centipede is opening in a handful of theaters this weekend. It was not submitted to the MPAA for a rating. The Chicago Sun-Times’s Roger Ebert is awarding it no stars as well. In his review, he writes: “I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film.” The movie deals with a mad doctor, a surgeon who once separated conjoined twins and now goes about capturing victims and perform reverse surgery, bonding them end to end so that they have a common digestive system. “No horror film I’ve seen inflicts more terrible things on its victims than The Human Centipede,” Ebert writes. Nevertheless, he says that within Dutch director Tom Six, “there stirs the soul of a dark artist.” Likewise, Mark Olsen wrote earlier this week in the Los Angeles Times: “Centipede is at once arduously rough to sit through and compelling. There’s a real film hidden beneath the hooky idea.” And in an interview with New York’s Village Voice, Six himself acknowledged that during test screenings, “Some people walk out of the cinemas, others can’t stop laughing, and if people are eating during the movie, they are vomiting their food out because they didn’t expect this to happen. It has a lot of influence on people’s emotions.” -IMDB News

05-07-2010, 10:24 PM	#2
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