Do not read about A Serbian Film

[Ancalagon]

Hello

You know sometimes someone here will post a link and then ask people not to click on it?

Well, I found worse. This movie shocked and disturbed a group of friend who saw themselves as pretty hard core horror film watchers (laugh at the human centipede level). They looked a bit traumatized when talking about it, and regretted watching it.

So I got curious about it - not to watch it, hell no, but just about the background.

Well, now I regret it :grey:. Folks, don't read about it either. It's that bad. So don't click on the link!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film

[Cat of Ulthar]

Years of Nothingland have taught me to be extremely cautious about links I click. You are a gentleman for warning us. And I will not click the link.

[Name Lips]

Wow, after reading the Human Centipede article... yeah. I'm not clicking the link. Rolled and passed my will save. (That is to say, I don't have much SAN left, so I should save it for special occasions)

[Schizm]

I didn't lose any SAN reading that, so I must have passed the check. But it's foul beyond words.

[Critter]

Reading about it doesn't seem all that bad. I will say it seems a bit over the top and I do not buy the justification given for what the movie is actually about.

"This is a diary of our own molestation by the Serbian government... It's about the monolithic power of leaders who hypnotize you to do things you don’t want to do. You have to feel the violence to know what it’s about."

Yeah, ok... I'm sure there are thousands of ways to get the point across you'd like to get across without attempting to make something that could qualify as one of the most digusting, offensive movies of all time.

[Ancalagon]

I didn't lose any SAN reading that, so I must have passed the check. But it's foul beyond words.
I stopped reading halfway through. I'm glad to see it's not me being a wuss.

Reading about it doesn't seem all that bad. I will say it seems a bit over the top and I do not buy the justification given for what the movie is actually about.

My friends and I were wondering how freaking bad Serbia is to generate *that*

[Schizm]

I stopped reading halfway through. I'm glad to see it's not me being a wuss.

ok, so you read some bad shit.

the write-up on Wikipedia says that the ending that infinitely worse. It's really, really foul. The screenwriter/director/whoever thinks that this kind of monstrosity is making a point about something? well, only about how fucked in the head they really are.

[hobbiteer]

FTA
[Quote]Tim Anderson of the horror review site "Bloody Disgusting" likened the movie to "having [his] soul raped" and dissuaded anyone reading his review from ever seeing it, writing: "If what I have written here is enough to turn your feelings of wonder into a burning desire to watch this monstrosity, then perhaps I haven't been clear enough. You don't want to see Serbian Film. You just think you do." [Quote]

And yet, I still kind of want to see it. I understand it is messed up, and horrific. I however have seen movies like Saw, Hostile, Red Dragon, and New York Minute (yes the one with the Olsen twins and yes that counts as a horror movie) and don't think it would drain my humanity score that bad. I also feel the need to see this "Human Centipede" I've seen reference to.

At the same time, I don't feel the urge to watch a movie simply for the shock factor, and sadly that's all most horror movies seem to be these days.
/shrug

[Dr_Avalanche]

Is this the same guy doing a remake of Hellraiser?

[Dr. Paragon]

Is this the same guy doing a remake of Hellraiser?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellraiser
A remake of Hellraiser was announced in 2007, with Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury set to direct.[12] Production was moved back for a 2009 release, and Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (Feast trilogy, Saw IV, Saw V) were hired to write the screenplay.[13] Bustillo and Maury later left the project, and Pascal Laugier was recently reported as being in the running to take the helm.[14] However, as of June 4, 2009, Pascal Laugier has officially dropped out of the project, leaving the remake's future unknown.[15] Currently, sources close to the project expect the film will see a release, sometime in 2012.

A Serbian Film:

Credits:
Directed by Srđan Spasojević

Produced by Dragoljub Vojnov, Srđan Spasojević

Written by Aleksandar Radivojević, Srđan Spasojević, Marija Stanošević

That would be a No...

[ROGAN GOSH]

To quote The Matrix-
Morpheus: “You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
I'll take the blue pill on this one.

On a slightly related note. I worked at a plastics shop for a short while in the 90's and became friends with a guy from serbia. He came to the U.S. with a younger brother and sister that he was raising.
A few of us would go and get a beer or two now and then. He'd come along and after a few (if prompted) he'd talk about some of the things he saw. Horrific. I helped him and his brother and sister move and afterward he got pretty drunk and told me some of the things that he experienced that he didn't want to share with the other guys.

There are stories you hear in life that once you hear them you curse yourself for not having the ability to "un"hear them.

He and his story haunt me every so often. It's amazing what a person can go thru and still be a human being. It's absolutely terrifying the truely evil things that a person can do to someone and still consider themselves a human being.

[Dr. Paragon]

Dude that chick on the ball hit me with a D4 Int drain...

That aside a buddy of mine served overseas (in the 90's) and
had some stories from the crumbling USSR countries. After
hearing them and seeing the haunted look in his eyes...
Let's just say we didn't get him Drunk-drunk very often.

[Cat of Ulthar]

The owner of my regular bar was an ex-UN soldier in Bosnia. He couldn't cope. He was a nice, simple man (simple as in uncomplicated, not as in mentally deficient). He wanted to help people. He couldn't cope with what he had seen there, and his inability to do something about it. He drank himself to death.

The only other guy I know who has been there has PTSS.