The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Plot synopsis:
Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), two American tourists in Germany, are drugged and involuntarily detained by crazed surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter (Dieter Laser) when they seek help at his house after they get a flat tire. The women awake in a makeshift medical ward. They witness Heiter kill a kidnapped truck driver after Heiter informs him he is "not a match". Heiter secures a new male captive, Japanese tourist Katsuro (Akihiro Kitamura). The doctor explains that he is a world-renowned expert at separating Siamese twins, but dreams of making new creatures by sewing people together. He describes in detail how he will surgically connect his three victims mouth-to-anus, so that they share a single digestive system.
After Lindsay tries to escape and fails, Heiter explains that he had previously experimented with creating what he called a "three-dog", also joined mouth-to-anus. However, the three-dog died shortly after surgery. Heiter tells Lindsay that one dog tried to escape and that dog became the middle, thus this caused the most pain to the dog and as punishment for her escape attempt, she will become the middle part of his centipede. Heiter performs the surgery, placing Katsuro at the lead, Lindsay in the middle and Jenny at the rear. He removes the front teeth of both women and mutilates the buttocks of both Katsuro and Lindsay in order to provide easier access to the rectums, to which he hideously stitches and grafts their mouths. During his procedure, he severs the ligaments within his victims' knees to prevent leg extension, forcing his victims to crawl. He then connects his victims together in a straight line with their mouths surgically attached to the anus of the victim in front of them.
Once the operation is complete, Heiter attempts to train his centipede as a pet, often belittling Katsuro with racist insults and beating him with a crop when he becomes rebellious. When Katsuro defecates, Lindsay is forced to swallow his excrement while the doctor watches in delight. However, he eventually becomes irritated after being kept awake by the constant screaming of Katsuro (who, as the front part of the centipede, has his mouth free and is still able to speak) and the realization that Jenny is dying from septicemia. When two detectives, Kranz (Andreas Leupold) and Voller (Peter Blankenstein), visit the house to investigate the disappearance of tourists, Heiter comes up with an idea to add them as replacements for Jenny in a new creation; a four-segment centipede. He offers the two detectives water spiked with sedatives in hopes of knocking the two unconscious. After being given the water, the detectives become suspicious and obtain a search warrant for his home. While the detectives leave Heiter's home, the victims attempt to escape. Katsuro attacks Heiter in the process. Their attempt to escape ultimately fails. Katsuro confesses to the doctor that he deserves his fate because he had treated his own family poorly, then commits suicide by slitting his throat with a glass shard.
Upon returning to Heiter's home, the detectives forcefully conduct separate searches as an injured Heiter hides near his swimming pool. Kranz finds the ward along with Heiter's victims. Voller begins to feel ill from the earlier drugging, and Heiter stabs him with the scalpel pulled from his leg during Katsuro's attack. Upon finding Voller dead, Kranz is shot by Heiter with Voller's sidearm. Kranz responds by shooting Heiter in the head before dying. Back in the house, Jenny and Lindsay hold hands as Jenny dies. Lindsay sobs as she is left alone in the house, trapped between her deceased fellow captives. Her fate is left unknown. The film ends with the sounds of her sobbing while the camera pans to the roof of the house.

Tags: comedy, murder, stupid, cult, horror, insanity, sadist

Review:
If you want to know what this movie is about in a nutshell, here are some key plot points - mouth sewn to anuses, swallowing feces, and humans turned into slaves without dignity.
Wow, what a pointless and redundant film.It would seem word of mouth has spread into the anus of the internet and shat out this crap film.Despite the hype, the Human Centipede does nothing interesting with its premise or characters - its almost as if Six thinks the *concept* can do most of the leg work for him.And apparently those taken by the original concept require little else from a film - like working through the implications of its own premise or delivering an experience that can stand on its own feet.
Take away the striking *image* of three people turned into a human centipede, and you are left with an indistinct film with few thrills.The mad scientist trope barely transcends hackneyed cliché, and the film completely squanders a great opportunity for subtext: what (for example) is the meaning of a male Asian as the head of the centipede and/or what does two American women following him mean?
Despite the 'logical' (linear) approach of the 'narrative', the characters motivations generally defy logic and rational explanation.Unlike great horror movies, this film literally has nothing to say about modern culture, gender roles, human fears or scientific hubris.Even worse, the cheap thrills are standard fare.
Instead of (say) feeling sorry for the two female characters in the film, you pity the two female *actresses* playing bare breasted women on all fours and eating crap in the form of Six's 'script'.Dieter was typically creepy as the mad scientist, but he can do this stuff in his sleep.
Contrary to so many of the torture porn films that try to punch up the shock value through sadism The Human Centipede has almost no blood and lets your imagination fill in the horrific blanks.If you know nothing about this movie, allow me to enlighten you.
This combined with slicing ligaments in the knees to prevent erect walking and you got yourself one human centipede.Likely, your mind is already made up on if you want to see this movie; you are either intrigued or repulsed (likely both).
The good Doctor Heiter is played by German Dieter Laser (or as I like to pronounce in a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, 'Deeder Lazer') and he is truly terrifying; icy, ruthless and completely unsympathetic towards his captives.
The slogan for this movie reads '100% medically accurate' and while I'm unsure of the validity of that statement it really stands as a moot point; plausible or preposterous, The Human Centipede does its job the best since the original Saw.Tom Six is already planning a sequel entitled The Human Centipede (Full Sequence).
Just gonna do a quick review here, there's way too many reviews that go on way too long about the the whys and wherefores of this movie.It's a relatively low budget horror film about a very loony, very angry scientist who clearly does not like humans.
Okay, American tourists with a car that breaks down - of course they go wandering through the dark German woods (you could play a drinking game and have to take a shot every time they say "Lindsay" and "Jenny" to each other - you'd be wasted) - and they come about a remote house and wouldn't you know it - just their luck - the house belongs to a complete nutjob surgeon who used to separate conjoined twins and now is obsessed with stitching people together.
The film is kooky but well made, the lead guy (who looks a bit like Lance Henrickson) gives 100% and is fine as the mad doctor but the whole concept reeks of teenage boys getting stoned for the first time and playing a game - let's come up with the grossest thing that could be done to you in surgery.
I found myself squeamishly anticipating the capture/torture/operation of the victims, but even that was a letdown, and once the centipede is created, it just gets boring.This was essentially a low-rent version of Silence of the Lambs; a guy kidnaps people and puts them in his basement where he turns them into a perverse personal art project.
EPIC FAIL.I wasn't expecting much when my friend talked me into watching this one but this movie isn't just bad, it is without a doubt the most horrendous film I have ever seen.
I love horror movies, and can put up with more cheesy, idiotic ones than most people, but The Human Centipede takes the cake as the most painful to watch, pathetic example of a movie that has ever been made.
"The Human Centipede" wasn't that bad.Sure the concept idea of connecting three individuals together in that matter is twisted, but it hardly qualified to be as gross as people made it out to be.
The not-so-good doctor drugs the Americans and makes them part of his insane ambition to make a human centipede.I will say that the story progressed nicely at a good pace, and there were some great moments throughout the movie.
Dieter Laser's character Dr. Heiter also had the best comment in the entire movie; "I don't like human beings".
46 minutes into the movie you see the actual Human Centipede, which is three people with stitch effects on their faces and tons of bandages.
Now, that is true horror, ladies and gentlemen!!And I don't know which of the critiques I find most funny, on the one hand you have the boring, moralistic nay-sayers, pettily warning other people to not watch the film because of its disgusting, horrifying nature.
But it was fairly well done, and I have to admit that I've never seen anything remotely like it before.I think it's worth pointing out that The Human Centipede does the same thing as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in that while people remember it as being a disgusting and violent film, it's practically bloodless.
Honestly if you can get past the fact that this is a movie about a mad scientist that sews people together mouth-to-anus, then you can watch it.
All this "worst movie ever made" is utter nonsense, By retrospect, Cannibal Holocaust, A Serbian Film, or even Twilight were more disturbing, not by much, but still, I rate their frights higher than Human Centipede.
For everyone that's seeing all these reviews about it being horrible, suck it up, honestly, it's not that bad, when my friend and I had finished watching it all we could think about was how the scientist looked "REALLY" excited about his injections, in fact, we were laughing by the end of it.
There's a lot of hype going around about this film being the most shocking, disturbing and outrageous horror movie in decades but don't believe it.
This isn't an exploitation movie so don't expect any gore, shocking violence or disgusting situations based around what actually takes place in the film.
Yes, what these three people go through is horrific but the film doesn't try to exploit the situation so those just looking for scenes of gross shocks are going to be disappointed.
I feel ashamed to be a member of the human race when I see a film like this is making money for some sicko movie makers.
I have mixed feelings about this film, I liked the originality of the concept and some thrilling and suspense filled chase/crawl scene when the victims were trying to escape the mad surgeon,it's sorta like a psychological thriller.
But of all the merits of these film , sadly it is over shadowed by a sick and disgusting concept, its original but I think only a person with a fetish for eating human waste would like the idea of a human centipede horror movie.Honestly i would prefer senseless gore rather than a concept as TASTELESS as this film is, I just feel that some ideas were not meant to be put on film such as this one had.I hear they are making a sequel, I definitely am NOT gonna see that one, I already had enough disgust for this one..
Last but not least, although he did not speak any lines in a language that I could understand, I think Akihiro Kitamura played the part of some Japanese guy wonderfully.All in all the film makes for a promising start of what should proves to be an exciting franchise not unlike such hits as Look Who's Talking Now and Harry Potter.Viewer discretion: some scenes graphically depict the consumption of alcohol.
And this nimbly bimbly thought process of mine is backed up with the ridiculousness that is, The Human Centipede.And I'm speaking for myself now, so don't get all prissy, but one of my favorite ideas inreally any genre of film is when the Mad Scientist is involved.
If you don't know about the movie...just read the title.Besides that other Serbian Film being talked about so much this year, The Human Centipede is easily the other most talked about horror film coming out.
This entire escape scene feels tagged on in order to pad out the running time.For a supposedly disturbing flick, with a totally twisted premise, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE is actually quite blood-less.
You can definitely see the suffering and downright agony in their eyes after the "procedure".If you want to see people in crazy situations, you'd be better off watching the Saw movies.
Don't waste your time seeking this movie out to watch it; it really isn't worth the effort.Anybody calling this "art" needs to head out and find their nearest museum so they can see what they are comparing this trash to..
I wish I could say this movie was self aware of how bad it was executed, sadly I truly think Tom Six is not only proud of this but finds it revolutionary...Here is A quote from Mr.Six himself paraphrased "Why make movies unless they are original." and i respect that quote on a lot of levels...now lets review this movie.A mad doctor is kidnapping people (Totally original), in his house thats in the middle of nowhere and apparently never checked on unless of course you are a lost tourist (UNDENIABLY ORIGINAL), so he can experiment on them and make his mad vision come to life.
(Most original concept ever amirite?) So generally speaking this movie kicks Tom Six's own quote in the balls, put thats fine why cant there be a good movie about a mad scientist and his whacked out brutal experiments the answer there is none, but there is a reason why it didn't work here.Six seems to have problems moving his characters out of the first dimension and this starts to show almost immediately instead of a proper prologue of some sort the film just simply begins, we are almost expected to know why this scientist is a mad scientist, and why he wants to make this human centipede.At this point we met our (loosely put) protagonist 2 American tourists who get lost on the way to the club...apparently there are no highways in Germany, so their car gets stranded in the woods (Tom's originality once again shines in such a plot device) after not being able to get help because their cell phones aren't getting reception (there goes that loss end) they stumble into the doctors house where we begin our last 75 minutes of useless shenanigans another tourist is kidnapped off screen and brought in then seriously it plays out like every movie involving A kidnapped person ever has...and to top it off there is some Tommy Wiseau quality acting in this baby, that comparison being made there is a lot of similarities between this and Wiseau's work, id go as far as to call it, "The Room of Horror Movies".Its badly acted, written, directed, and just plain annoying to sit through, it doesn't even have the camp value movies like Troll 2 or Plan 9 have its just all around bad film creating...but then again Tom Six did make it..
Further, he exposes his insane project of creating the human centipede, joining three human beings through the mouths and anuses."The Human Centipede (First Sequence)" is a gruesome and repulsive film with excessive black humor (and bad taste), but also an original trash movie.
a low budget poor quality film badly acted i have seen more scarier Disney films really over rated i wish i could give it a 0 but sadly the lowest score is one i have watched house of a thousand corpse and the devils rejects those are sick films this is no where near sick its like a film from pound land but worse i really do not know what the hype is about but obviously the producer loves this because people will pay such good money to watch a peace of rubbish like this really i advise you all not to watch this film unless this is your very first horror film and you are a real big wimp i would not even class this as a horror more of a thriller due to the fact that it is so stupid and I'm only blabbing on because it has to be ten lines so sorry..
This entire movie revolves around the work of the classic mad scientist who sets himself to the task of kidnapping three people and turning them into a "human centipede" - by attaching the mouth of the one behind onto the anus of the one in front.
This black Horror story written and directed by Tom Six began as a sick joke on such a night but somehow ventured onto the silver screen as a mad adaption of 'Saw.' The movie is called " The Human Centipede " and is definitely not for the squeamish or easily offended.
The director's idea intrigued me alone, since i had doubts about how something like this could be shown on screen.WATCHING THE FILM: Okay time to state the opinions!
Still, "The Human Centipede" remains a harrowing experience to watch.When the movie was over, all I could think of was that the girls would've save themselves from A LOT of trouble had they known how to change a flat tire.
I found the girls (like most B grade horror) to be fairly poor actors , and yes-their lack of ability to even attempt a tyre change and then to traverse thick woods instead of walk along a road?-well-that fits with B grade well enough-so i wasn't phased by it, but i found the anxiety and distress of the resulting creature rather moving and realistic, and a wonderful little exercise in horror..sure the Christian family person who loved Titanic and Mission Impossible, who thought 'Precious' and 'The Killer inside me' was sick-and who doesn't like horror is always going to slam this kind of thing-but for the toughnuts who like black stuff-i actually think this is quite well done and satisfying once you get past the initial bore of poor decisions.
While I'm not a fan of the torture porn genre, I very much love mad scientists and so I sat down to watch The Human Centipede, knowing that it would probably be quite disappointing.So now, a good hour and a half later, I'm sitting here confused and bewildered.I have seen a lot of film, but never before have I seen a film completely missing a script.
The Human Centipede has less of a plot than a music video.The acting is a mixed bowl of good, decent and bad, but as this is a horror flick, great acting is not something you'd expect anyway.
on the surface it's a horror film with one of the greatest mad scientist performances ever from Dieter laser it also has a really disturbing central idea.
When I read the short synopsis for this I thought, sounds like it might be a new horror film idea and not some redone crap.Well, while the story's concept was possible interesting this film was completely ruined by terrible acting.
Not Sure What To Say. Well first things first.I am not sure why i give this movie 5*.I liked it and i didn't.Guess that sounds confusing.Sorry but i am confused.I like this because it is way f-d up.The plot is pretty original in my opinion.I can't say I've ever seen anything quite like it.This is one twisted Doctor.The writer/director Tom Six is pretty twisted himself.I mean where do you come up with this kind of idea?I know in all the Horrors i have seen, some can be way out there,and twisted but this puts twisted on the map.If you know what i mean.I feel the movie was a bit slow.My biggest and really only problem with it was i found the acting to be real poor(sorry to the actors who had to endure).Without giving anything away i guess it's hard to act in this type of predicament.I will have to wait for the next installment which i will watch,maybe there can be some better acting.If you like twisted and i mean twisted give this a shot.Let's read your review..
'THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE): Zero Stars (Out of Five) I really like and respect horror movies; I think they often require the most imagination, creativity and talent to produce out of any genre of film.
The Human Centipede First Sequance was quite a disturbing film and some scenes made me feel a bit sick.
The whole concept of the film is some huge gross-out thing about a mad scientist creating a human centipede out of some unwilling test subjects, and that's all there is to it.It's not enough material to sustain a genuine running time, so we get lots of dull scenes elsewhere.
And people who are down on that level are going to level with The Human Centipede, a film about virtually nothing.
The film is utterly pointless, pure trash, and if ANYBODY needs to be turned into a human centipede, its the entire crew who worked on this movie, with Six as the tail end!