IS THIS REALLY THE SICKEST MOVIE EVER?

No



Martyrs is sicker.

No, Mordum is sicker, for me.
THC 2 is actually a really good film though, I gotta say and a great sequel.

"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"

No, it isn't the sickest movie ever...
...it's a little disturbing, along with the acting at points..

But it's all visual, a bit like Nekromantic...horrible but only because of the imagery, not the emotion behind the imagery.

(100 days of salo that you mentioned is "120 Days of Sodom")

This film (cut or uncut) has it's emotionally moving points (imo)....but it is way off the sickest movie ever.

not even close, for one it lacks a plausible story

Nah, "Salo" (or 120 Days of Sodom) is still the sickest film I've ever seen.



School's for people who are boring and ugly and serious. And you, button, are none of those.

The Human Centipede part 1 is the sickest film ever made.

Your chains are still mine, you belong to me! - The Phantom Of The Opera

I'm with the ever reliable Corpus on this one, the first film is reasonably restrained and this one is a decent step up from it, good solid horror flick. It certainly had some hilarious and entertainingly sick and disturbing content but nowhere as sick as A Serbian Film.

August Underground's Mordum however eats both of them, sh#ts them out and uses them as lubrication to skull rape your eyesockets.

UNCOMPROMISING UNDERGROUND FILTH

A few of you sound like lightweights!

I thought Human Centipede II was stupid and felt compelled to complain about it on the boards. The film is tedious and in no way viscerally shocking or satisfying. There is definitely some shock, but it comes more from the viewer surprised the filmmaker would try something than anything that happens within the story itself.

I wish more horror filmmakers like Tom Six would realize emotional connection with the characters creates a considerably greater shock to the viewer, emotionally, and viscerally. It's why A Serbian Film was so troubling. The likelihood of the premise aside, you manage to develop a connection to Milos, his child and his wife only to see it torn apart.

I wasn't a big fan of Martyrs (if only because I thought the motivation of the villain was lame and a little contrived) but felt it was a far more effective film because you actually were connected to the protagonists.

In HC one there was at least this ridiculous humor prevalent throughout the whole film, primarily from the dialog delivery of Dieter Laser, but the general over-the-top nature of things kept it light enough to make it an enjoyably depraved romp. You may not like the leads but you at least look forward to them dying, if only so girls will stop delivering terrible dialog.

That wasn't in the sequel. There was some absurdest humor in it maybe but generally speaking, there was nothing to hold my attention or keep me emotionally engaged.

Generally speaking, the best exploitation films are the ones that are actually good movies, meaning they have logical plots (they can be over the top, just have to make sense in their own world) and generally decent production value. They were all the rage in the 70s from Japanese films by Noribumi Suzuki and Toshiya Fujita (check out Sex and Fury and Lady Deathblood if you want to see where Tarantino ripped off the ideas for Kill Bill) to Richard Fleischer's Mandingo. A lot of the more recent exploitation films have seemingly lost that element of enjoyable storytelling, focusing solely the brutality.

Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, Alex Aja, and Quentin Tarantino all make fairly mainstream exploitation films that are all considerably better made films than anything Tom Six has churned out. Violence is not quite as fetishized in their movies, but they are all infinitely more watchable. If you are looking for something less mainstream, Inside was a pretty effective home invasion exploitation flick. You can't go wrong with Redneck films either like Straw Dogs, I Spit on Your Grave, or the Last House on the Left (Originals or remakes). All three have rape scenes that are far more unsettling than the garbage I saw in HC2.

If you want to truly be disturbed, watch the unrated, uncut version of A Serbian Film. Good luck finding it. I've seen probably 1000+ exploitation films over the last 15 years and have never been as deeply troubled by what I saw in A Serbian Film. It's the only one that ever got to me. That's coming from someone who thought 120 Days of Sodom was okay but not nearly as "good" as the book.