So I was watching 'You Have Been Watching' with Charlie Brooker last night and he played an advert for this horror movie. It's called The Human Centipede. After watching that I admit I didn't really get much sleep last night.
I don't advise searching it and I'm honestly not prepared to my self. If you know it or searched it, it made me think back to a few parts of Bioshock. Now the mad character's of Bioshock were sick but "I'll let you get away with that" kind of sick.
I now ask you Escapist, what have you seen in film or game that left you feeling it went a little too far?
EDIT - Okay, to those of you who were freaked out by the concept of this film I really apologies for bringing it to your attention. I think it's been a bit of a mixed reaction to this thread. There's been quite a few things on "horror movie porn" which I never really thought of before to be honest...
Everyone has their own taste so some of the films mentioned might be the paper cut to some where it's a chopped off head to others. The trailer I watched for The Human Centipede doesn't really look like a good movie. It's your basic looney toon capturing some thick people who get caught and he attempts to... Yeah. Anyway, story sounds like crap what I thought was too far was that someone could actually come up with something like that and they got funding to make it. There's a lot of other films out there that can be said the same in other's opinion.
I can't remember which review Yahtzee said it in but he made the point that all games exist for a reason even if it's how not to. For me I agree with you guys that the only reason is for this "horror movie porn" and I'd like to give a cuddle to the poor phycologist of the guy who gave the go ahead for this film.
Back to my original question, I've heard some people say that Lady Gaga's performance at the VMA's went too far. I'd justify that by saying that her performance was based on The Phantom Of The Opera, I think she was playing the phantom and she was trying to make the point that "the fame" was killing her. It felt like there was a point for it, it was a new kind of performance.
I think someone on this thread mentioned the deaths in Dead Space went too far. I know people that stopped playing Bioshock after hearing the recording of the scientist that made a child kill his puppy.
Other then The Antichrist, Hostel, The Passion Of The Christ or Cannibal Holocaust. What else do you think went too far? Could be song lyrics, that guy in your class who makes jokes about the fat girl.... If anything it'll be interesting to see what games you guys come back with.
I don't advise searching it and I'm honestly not prepared to my self. If you know it or searched it, it made me think back to a few parts of Bioshock. Now the mad character's of Bioshock were sick but "I'll let you get away with that" kind of sick.
I now ask you Escapist, what have you seen in film or game that left you feeling it went a little too far?
EDIT - Okay, to those of you who were freaked out by the concept of this film I really apologies for bringing it to your attention. I think it's been a bit of a mixed reaction to this thread. There's been quite a few things on "horror movie porn" which I never really thought of before to be honest...
Everyone has their own taste so some of the films mentioned might be the paper cut to some where it's a chopped off head to others. The trailer I watched for The Human Centipede doesn't really look like a good movie. It's your basic looney toon capturing some thick people who get caught and he attempts to... Yeah. Anyway, story sounds like crap what I thought was too far was that someone could actually come up with something like that and they got funding to make it. There's a lot of other films out there that can be said the same in other's opinion.
I can't remember which review Yahtzee said it in but he made the point that all games exist for a reason even if it's how not to. For me I agree with you guys that the only reason is for this "horror movie porn" and I'd like to give a cuddle to the poor phycologist of the guy who gave the go ahead for this film.
Back to my original question, I've heard some people say that Lady Gaga's performance at the VMA's went too far. I'd justify that by saying that her performance was based on The Phantom Of The Opera, I think she was playing the phantom and she was trying to make the point that "the fame" was killing her. It felt like there was a point for it, it was a new kind of performance.
I think someone on this thread mentioned the deaths in Dead Space went too far. I know people that stopped playing Bioshock after hearing the recording of the scientist that made a child kill his puppy.
Other then The Antichrist, Hostel, The Passion Of The Christ or Cannibal Holocaust. What else do you think went too far? Could be song lyrics, that guy in your class who makes jokes about the fat girl.... If anything it'll be interesting to see what games you guys come back with.
Some innocence I had left died inside me to watch what one human did to another.
