The Human Centipede Movie Review

Two beautiful young Americans Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) were having a European vacation, driving though the countryside when their tire suddenly blows out, leaving them both stranded in the middle of nowhere. With no cell phone service and bad weather fast approaching, the girls decide to try their luck on foot through the woods (like WHY??). They eventually stumbled across a modern house inhabited by a crazy pyscho surgeon, Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser). 

Dr. Heither is a retired surgoen who specialised in the separation of conjoined twins. He has recently begun experimenting with a radical new form of surgery in his basement operating room. And when Lindsay and Jenny show up on his doorstep, Dr. Heiter begins prepping for surgery.
 

After the loss of his precious “3 Dog,” Heiter’s mental state begins to deteriorate further and he decides to begin work on his greatest creation, a twisted creation that transforms separate individuals into one cohesive unit, one writhing mass sharing both form and function, The Human Centipede.

I certainly can’t complain about the acting, it was all well above average, especially from the insanely talented actor Dieter Laser; his character was flat out scary. The human centipede actors, made up of newcomers Akihiro Kitamura, Ashlynn Yennie and Ashley C. Williams, should also be congratulated on their brave performances as well. I mean it’s one thing to act under pressure, it’s another entirely to act while semi-nude, on your knees and attached to a co-star’s posterior! The very thought would make most people cringe but to do it for hours on end for a horror film, well that’s just plain ballsy. 

OK, so what is this "Human Centipede" and why has it caused so many viewers to gag? Well, before I thoroughly explain, as the famous saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here's a picture...

Still don't get it? Well, the human centipede connects the three people by (and once again I'm being totally serious here) stitching together their mouths and anuses and the main idea is that their digestive track will be connected meaning that when one of them shits, it will go into the next person's mouth. This is one of those rare torture films that isn't even actually torture in the sense that most viewers consider it. There is not really much in terms of "blood" (You see more brown fluids than you do red) when you compare it to other gore-fests.
 

The main one being of course, it's disgusting-ness (If that's even a word). Watching the three poor unfortunate souls stuck together mouth-to-anus is rather sickening and disgusting. There's one scene in particular where one of the girls is trying to vomit but her mouth is stitched up, and her vomit spills from the cracks of her stitches. 

But really what was the point of this film? It just feels like the director's masturbation material, rather than an actual horror film. Anyway, however, I still can't really decide whether The Human Centipede is TRULY bad or not. 

There's a thin line between being gory to actually make your film scary and being disgusting just for the sake of being disgusting. Well, that pretty much sums up my thoughts of The Human Centipede directed by Tom Six. If you have the stomach for it, a barf bag, a grasp of the concept of dark humor, or a sick fetish with watching people's anuses no matter what they're stitched onto, then there is probably something in here worth your time. For everyone else, it's just exploitative, shameless, disgusting, and...did I mention "disgusting" for the bajillionth time?