BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

clenchedbrain There are at least 3 different films being reviewed here! Some guy is reviewing 'Begotten', a majority of people are reviewing The Most Disturbing Film In The Universe (which I thought I was downloading after scanning a couple of the reviews), and a sanity-restoring few are reviewing the flick I just saw. A nice 80s Hong Kong black magic romp, with some gross out live centipede barfing at the end nicely rounding things off. It may not have been the disturbing nightmare I was anticipating, but this altogether different prospect was highly enjoyable, I thought, if pretty standard fare. Also of note, there is a great bit of moody 80s synthesizer work in here, which sounds awfully familiar to something from El-p's 'Fantastic Damage' album! OK, after some more digging, I think some people are reviewing Takashi Miike's segment of Masters Of Horror, called 'Imprint'. Others are reviewing 'Cutting Moments'. However, there is still one that is eluding me, which appears to be a HK 80s horror: wizards, decapitation, transformation etc. What the hell is this film?

thither Keith Li is still not a familiar name to many except gore hounds specializing in SE Asian horror, but those in the know will agree that he reached his pinnacle with this disturbing, uncompromising gem of cinema; his only extant subsequent films seem pale and incomplete when compared to the bleak vision of Centipede Sorcerer.Other commenters here have already noted many of the unforgettable features of this film: Darma Yang's startling cinematography, the strong religious and existential subtext, and of course the sheer barking madness of what actually occurs during the film. To this I'll only add that Li displays an absolute mastery of tone here; apart from a slow section in the first part of the movie, it stays extremely, horribly consistent throughout, with a mood that builds like the slow realization of some terrible idea from a suspicion to full-blown awareness.As another poster noted, seeing this will be a real shocker for fans of Din Long Lee. It's truly a one-of-a-kind performance, but I can't help but think that the very fact that she was involved in a production like Centipede Sorcerer had something to do with her career never really taking off with more mainstream audiences. It's a testament to Li's weird genius that he ends his film with a tip of the cap to Truffaut's 400 Blows. Days after I've seen it, the haunting final score still lingers in my memory. This is certainly not a movie I can recommend to everyone, but it left an indelible mark on me for sure.

RonHeartburn After reading every other review on IMDb I really thought this was the film I've been searching for all my life. I love horror films and collect all the previously banned films, including the most notorious ones such as Cannibal Holocaust, Guinea Pig, etc. So you can imagine my excitement when I seen it on ebay and managed to win the auction.I even printed off the reviews while I was waiting for the DVD to be delivered and read them to my friends and colleagues at work, they too were intrigued to hear lines like, "I seen this film 3 weeks ago now and still there is a sense of discomfort" or "I seen this film at a film festival but missed the last half of the film and the following two short movies as I had to keep my head in-between my legs to avoid fainting", oh and my favourite "few filmsleave you feeling destroyed afterwards", that one really sold it to me.To say I was disappointed is an understatement. The basic story is, once upon a time a man lived in a village with his wife and baby. He was also having an affair and one night his wife walked in while he was doing the dirty deed with his lover. In the struggle that then ensued he accidentally killed his wife and his lover, panicked and then proceeded to burn down the village to cover up what he'd done. Only he left his baby to burn too. As he was escaping the village a wizard type guy saw him and realisng what he'd done,placed a curse (a centipede curse) on him and his family. Skip forward to present day and his granddaughter his fallen fowl to the curse with her brother now on the trail to find out what happened to her and to discover what the 'shameful' thing was that his grandfather carried out at the village all those years ago.The rest of the film is about random wizard/priest guys and has one cool scene where a priest appears to perform some sort of ritual where he makes a naked pregnant girl barf/abort scorpions, that was pretty horrific and impressed me. Then there is the final scene, which again going back to the other reviews I read, was supposed to be so horrific that it "will never leave you". Another major let down. Just a girl puking some centipedes, yeah it's kinda gross but I've seen far worse.In conclusion, if I had never read these reviews and just stumbled across it I probably would have quite enjoyed it, but after all the hype I don't think I've ever been so disappointed with a film. So for anyone out there who has seen all the big 'nasties' such as Holocaust, The Guinea Pigs, Mordum August Underground, etc. and read these reviews, don't be fooled like I was into thinking you found a film that will disturb you, because it won't.Marks out of 10 as film I'd never heard anything about = 6 Marks out of 10 as film I expected so much from after reading the reviews = 2

Dirt_Britland Horror/science fiction films have rarely been singled out for the quality of the acting in them. Over the decades, a couple of "monsters" have been tapped for praise: Fredric March won an Oscar for his turn at Jekyll and Hyde, & Jeff Goldblum was rightly seen as an example of "inspired casting" in David Cronenberg's remake of _The Fly_.But I think Din Long Lee has them both beat.I enjoy _The Centipede Horror_ overall, but it is Miss Lee's performance as Margaret A. Li that lifts it out of the stratosphere for me. I mean, sweet f@ck all, _look_ at her! This is an incredibly painful and, yes, passionate portrait of a woman whose _body_ is being taken over and is changing into something else, even as he fights to retain possession of it. What might such a battle _feel_ like? Miss Lee lets you know, and in doing so anchors an almost cliché science-fiction "what if ...?" in raw human nerve endings. Watch her battle the frightening desires that overcome her; watch her try to remain ... human.Nigel Wang's imagination and profoundly innovative writing places this "film" right up there with the Necronomicon. This show is an unwanted (because still deeply disturbing) memory. If I could go back to how I was before seeing it, Heaven knows, I would --as it has left me paralyzed by existential dread. Which quite simply isn't right.Extremely frightening, even on the small screen. A woman incurs the attention of some indifferent Evil out of antiquity. Two of her envoys are killed and a third found in an especially disorientated state. She slowly metamorphosises into an unpleasant alien being, half cactus -half God knows what. Others have classified this as a _"gross out"_ film, but in faith it transcends even mere _horror_ as a genre, and seeps into the mind, establishing itself, by slow degrees, as nothing less than the most refined & unrelenting example of what can only be deemed pure, unalloyed Terror.