Viewers ‘Traumatised’ Watching Brutal Horror Film Tusk That's ‘Worse Than The Human Centipede’

Tusk, a little-known 2014 horror movie, is a great choice if you want to watch something that will make you sick tonight.

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This gruesome film, which also includes some horrifying surgical experiments, has been compared to "The Human Centipede" in terms of brutality.

With its depiction of cruel body changes carried out to fulfill a surgeon's psychotic fetish, The Human Centipede stunned audiences everywhere when it was released in 2009.

Tusk, though, intensifies its repulsive human-to-animal transition.

The story centers on a podcaster (Justin Long), who travels to see a recluse without realizing that he has a pathological fascination with walruses.

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You can probably anticipate what happens next, but if you want to avoid spoilers, stop reading now.

After seeing the movie, many were "literally traumatized."

A TikToker named Heidi Wong used the platform to discuss the film, calling it the worst horror movie she had ever seen.

She expressed the idea after making several films discussing her opinions about Tusk: “Out of all the horror movies that I’ve seen, this one gets to me the most.”

“Tusk is about a podcaster who meets a crazy man who wants to turn him into a walrus, as in surgically turn him from a human to a walrus.”

“This movie was worse than The Human Centipede to me.”

The TikToker continued to discuss the finish and how bizarre it is in another video.

She described a video of herself contemplating it as follows: “Me watching a guy who was forced to be surgically turned into a walrus finally escape, only for his friends to put him in a zoo to live the rest of his life as an actual walrus.”

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Users were eager to acknowledge how deeply the film moved them in the comments, with one writing: “Please don’t remind me of the movie Tusk. I’m traumatized from watching it”.

Another wrote: “I dreamt about that damn walrus for weeks!”

Some people even reached a stage where they couldn't find joy in the animal anymore, as one person remarked: “After knowing about this movie and seeing clips I can never see walruses the same anymore”.

But if you thought you'd avoided the bizarre movie, you'd be mistaken since Long revealed to Slash Film in 2022 that Kevin Smith had contacted him about making a sequel.

For the time being, let's hope it remained secured in a storage unit.

Whether the storage unit remains securely locked or creaks open to reveal new terrors, the legacy of "Tusk" as a deeply unsettling exploration of body and psyche is undeniable.

As the cinematic landscape evolves and our collective appetite for the disturbing and the unconventional persists, "Tusk" stands as a testament to the boundary-pushing power of horror and its ability to infiltrate our thoughts, our dreams, and our fears.