Heiter in Tom Six’s art house stomach churner, The Human Centipede (2009). The long-awaited, inferior DVD currently in the marketplace came as result of respected German actor Deiter Laser (who I remember from the obscure and equally rare VHS The Elixirs of the Devil, a 1976 German take on the ‘70s Euro-horror nasties The Devils and Mark of the Devil ) achieving his first taste of worldwide fame with his turn as the mad Dr. If there’s ever a film that deserves a full-blown digital restoration from its original 35MM print-which was bestowed this year by Arrow Video to Def-Con 4-then Operation Ganymed is the film. Astute post-apocalypse fans will instantly notice those U.S-issued VHS tapes were most-likely plundered by the producers of the less intelligent Canadian exploiter Def-Con 4 (1985) and the South African gimp-clone Survivor (1987). Recognized as a winner of a few Euro-science fiction film festivals, the film earned a domestic stateside-release when star Jürgen Prochow impressed U.S audiences with his break out rolls in Das Boot (1981) and Dune (1984). And beware: most of those are DVD-Rs (but don’t complain and just be happy the film is at least digitally preserved). sigh, that’s the copy/version I rented from Tapes n’ More so many years ago!) The film was popular enough in Europe to warrant DVD reissues dubbed or subtitled for various markets-but are barebones VHS rips. (How rare is the tape? A VHS is currently for sale on eBay for $78.00. Throughout this period, an investigative reporter gets wind of the fact that something is amiss and slowly puts together the pieces of the mystery.The now ultra-rare tape sought by VHS/Beta collectors doesn’t even appear in U.S tape guides. Their only chance for survival is to make a desperate attempt to escape.

All is going well until they learn that the only way for the hoax to be maintained is for them to die upon re-entry.

Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. What if one of the greatest space adventures was really a hoax When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission from a studio built in an abandoned air force base.

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