my 14 year old daughter shouldnt be shown 'The human Centipede' on sleepover

[tropicalfish]

My dd went for sleepover at 13 year olds friends house and as a film to watch was shown the human centipede. Apparently downloaded.
What would you do?
Would you let your own dd for go for sleepover at their house again?
I am very annoyed about this.

I saw the mere TRAILER for that film over a year ago and I've never got it out of my head.

That said, as a teenager I watched all sorts (that I would never watch now) and they didn't bother me at the time. There was a sort of schoolground bravado - i.e. let's see who can watch the most disturbing film and not dwell on it.

Let's hope they keep the ban that's currently in place on the sequel...

I'm really at the fact lots of posters have been so affected by the trailer for this film,vile and disgusting yes but i honestly dont get it?
I'm far far more likely to be disturbed and upset by real life things such as 9/11,war and such like.
Maybe i'm a bit odd or something but i cant see how anyone can be seriously affected by this? its worrying to think an individual thought this up but really its just sick rubbish.

I wouldn't watch it simply because I think it's utterly ridiculous. The whole gore genre is totally overdone and there is nothing groundbreaking.

Having said that, it's silly enought to appeal to teenagers. I'd have thought it was the ideal sort of film to appeal to groups of 14 year olds on sleepovers (if not their parents) lots of high pitched screaming and hilarity and much commenting about it afterwards at school and on MSN/Facebook etc.

I'm pretty sure that at that age they're aware that it's not real and it's unlikely to scar them for life. it's just one of those rite of passage things. They'll probably always remember watching it and trot the story out for years to come, just as I always remember watching The Exorcist at around that age.

What does your DD think of being allowed to watch that film at the sleepover? If she's as unhappy and disturbed by it as you are I guess she won't be in a hurry to go there if invited again.

If she's not as bothered as you are then I guess you might have a problem looming of she wants to go there again and you don't want her to...

Well...it's not the best parenting in the world, but I used to have sleepovers with the very lovely, responsible, caring parents of a friend. There used to be about five of us. We used to watch 18 videos: The Exorcist (about as scary as Scooby Doo IMHO); Lemon Popsicle (rubbish dubbed sex comedies); Halloween; even The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (not bad as cult films go, but the poor production values negate a lot of the scariness).

We must have been about 13 or 14 at the time. It's a rite of passage. TBH, your DC doesn't seem bothered, and in 2 years time she can legally have sex, leave home and, until a few years ago could have joined the army. Why you can do all that and not see a scary film until 2 years later I've no idea. You don't even know if the parents knew about this.

I hate to say this, but I was doing worse things at 14, and I was a nice, destined for university type . And she's told you about this. If she thinks that you will complain to her friends' parents and prevent her from going to events like sleepovers, she might not mention other things.

YADNBU - It's a nasty piece of mysogynist trash.

I might be less if it was a 18 with a plot, as I did watch Pulp Fiction at a similar age.

The sequel isn't banned. It's out in a couple of weeks.

To be honest the issue was not weather the parents new or not its the fact the parents clearly were not checking on them

They sat for neigh 3 hours watching a film with out being bothered

Even my oh found this film disturbing he's a big burly irishman

I think the lesson is know were your child is staying make sure the parents have the same type of views as you make sure your children will be checked on now and then

Read a sleep over thread the other day were the parents went put leaving the ops primary aged dd and friends alone over night

Its our job to know who we are handing our children over to

It was never banned, just the board of film classification refused to classify it as it was so gross, torture porn they sometimes call it. So the director cut a couple scenes out and it'll be out in the cinema soon with an 18cert.

OP, I like horror films and have seen this one...

Don't worry too much, it is nowhere near as gory as a lot of films I have seen, even the teen "splatter" horrors (like scream etc) have more blood etc. It is mainly just the idea in this film that is disgusting, you dont see much at all. IMO the trailer is much worse than the film because its all condensed into 30 or so seconds.

I thought it was a truly shit film and am more annoyed at the makers that I cannot get the time back that I was watching it!

Maypole1, you say that the parents were not checking on them. They were in a bedroom in their house. A film lasts about 90/100 minutes? The whole point of a sleepover is to stay up late. How often would you check on 14 year olds?!

I hope that your daughter learnt the #1 horror kidnap scenario lesson though.

If you are kidnapped, injured, and in the middle of nowhere and get a chance to escape, don't try to carry your unconscious friend to safety too, as all you'll do is guarantee that neither of you escape! [hgrin]

Btw, I'm confused as to how its misogynistic? One of the victims is male? (I'd understand if they were all female!)

OMFG

i would be fuming, that film is horrid!

id be asking the parents why on earth they thought that was ok for them to watch!

The sequel had 24 mins cut from it so they would give it a 18 cert,

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Daughteroflilith every couple of hours also if they were watching a film I would make sure that one of my drop ins happened to be during the movie

But to be fair sleep overs happen with in the front room in my house I have sky so any film over 12 has a pin and the only things which have a DVD player is the computer which has a time lock

When hosting other peoples children is your job to make sure they safe you can expose your own children to any shit you want but your supposed to make sure you don't do that with other peoples children

Personally all I ask is my child is returned to me in the same state I dropped them off

gothicangel some people have no sence of what is ok for a child to watch,play or drink so its on us as parents to make sure any one we hand our children over have the same values and views as us

I have a friend who allows her son to play 18 rated video games and had un feted access to the Internet so I simply don't allow my son to stay over and if we are their for the day I make sure my son is checked on regularly so to keep tabs on what they are doing

sleepyspaniel

I BET she is referring to "a Serbian Film" !!!! lovely.......

YADNBU - I will be flamed and called a loon but it is a child protection issue- I would go ape shit at the parents (if they knew).

If you show a child porn it is sexual abuse, I would call showing them a cert 18 horror emotional abuse.

Scaredbear - you would ban a film for gratuitous violence/sexual abuses/emotionally harmful material. I think censorship is maligned when it is neccessary and needed.

The human Centipede is not a horror film in the true sense. There is little to no gore, no sex, nudity, strong lanuage ect.

It is just the story line is pretty sick and sets out to shock. I think most 14 year olds would reconise it for the crap it is.

Its not just sick though, I'm sure most 14yo would recognise that its just plain ridiculous and the "theory" is impossible!

TBH, I dont think I've ever seen a less convincing film. It is just pre nonsense!

*pure not pre

I hope that your daughter learnt the #1 horror kidnap scenario lesson though.

If you are kidnapped, injured, and in the middle of nowhere and get a chance to escape, don't try to carry your unconscious friend to safety too, as all you'll do is guarantee that neither of you escape! [hgrin]

Most of it is laughable. I agree, the idea is worse than the actual film.

The whole film is just badly acted rubbish and i do wonder how many of the people who are clutching their pearls and talking about it being abuse have actually seen the film.

And no i dont want censorship of films by some faceless body deciding what we can and cant see under the desguise of it being for our own good.