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Haha...mildly enjoyable, highly laughable, certainly attention-grabbing.

No matter how you look at it, the director's an idiot.  If he was trying to make an art film, he totally undermined it by including such graphic content.  If he was trying to make a shock film, all he succeeded in doing was making me laugh -- not that I didn't feel uncomfortable, but come on...this film is far too poorly made and far too over the top to elicit any strong reaction.  

I think he really was trying to make a "good" film...I just don't think he's a very good filmmaker.  The first half of the film has a bit of promise in that it sets up its story and character reasonably well, but as soon as the film tries to gut-punch you, it just becomes a complete joke.  As soon as the director gets into the nasty stuff, he forgets about his story and wallows, and it shows.  When violence this extreme doesn't have a point, all you can do is laugh at it.  

It's a shame because the acting for the most part was pretty strong.  Don't be fooled though...there's no art to this film.  Anytime people are confronted with extreme violence and depravity, they can be tricked into believing that there's more content in a film than there actually is; I believe that's this film's saving grace.  Dreamer, I like what you have to say about the way the film engages its audience ("...something beastly within me?") but I think that that's to your credit, not the director's.  I don't think this guy knows what he's doing.  The first half of the movie is well enough constructed, but largely uninteresting and certainly unoriginal; the second half is a complete mess, but at least you get to see a dick go into someone's eye socket.

Long story short, nothing interesting to see here, but good fun for sadistic violence hounds who are bored with rape and murder and want to see some kids getting blanked in the blank.

Oh also the second half of the movie is poorly photographed and annoyingly edited, which is a shame, because the first half is just the opposite.

Based on ^^^, I think I might see this. The more I hear about this one, the more it sounds like The Human Centipede and the less it sounds like Irreversible (consequently, I saw Irreversible for the second time last week; that one might hold the prize for most disturbing film). Indeed, I think the guy was thinking something along the lines of "what's the one thing horror directors would still hold universally in bad taste... of course!"

In any case, I might check it out. The visuals from the trailer definitely present a different aesthetic than most horror movies, even if it seems like more of the same.

How are people seeing this anyway?

Quoted from James McClung How are people seeing this anyway?

Dunno about the others but I found it in my hardrive on Christmas morning...that's old Claus and his (not widely known) penchant for twisted, pornographic, exploitative cinema for ya!