Synopsis
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon who explains his mad scientific vision to his captives' utter horror. They are to be the subjects of his sick lifetime fantasy: to be the first to connect people, one to the next, and in doing so bring to life "the human centipede."
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Cast
- Dieter LaserDr. Heiter
- Ashley C. WilliamsLindsay
- Ashlynn YennieJenny
- Akihiro KitamuraKatsuro
- Andreas LeupoldDetective Kranz
- Peter BlankensteinDetective Voller
- Rosemary AnnabellaAmy (voice)
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
Unlike its obvious influence, the 1999 Japanese shocker "Audition," The Human Centipede has no real-world echoes. It's an only-in-the-movies sick goof. - 80
Village Voice
Centipede plays on the notion that the only thing more frightening than death is a state bridging life and death, in which, though one's body is no longer his own to control, the mind remains conscious. - 75
New York Post
Dieter Laser is grand as the doc, a character Christopher Walken would be comfortable doing, and Akihiro Kitamura provides laughs as the first part of the centipede. - 50
Boxoffice Magazine
More of a stunt than a script, The Human Centipede (First Sequence) should get a modest amount of I-dare-you ticket sales, but it's about as mass market as a dogfight. - 50
Rolling Stone
The only way to react is by bringing a barf bag or a strong sense of gallows humor. - 20
Variety
Only real payoff is seeing the monstrosity assembled, and though that will surely earn the Dutch writer-director a cult reputation on the genre circuit, "going there" does not a movie make. - 20
Time Out
Excruciatingly stupid movie. - 12
Chicago Sun-Times
Six has now made a film deliberately intended to inspire incredulity, nausea and hopefully outrage. It's being booked as a midnight movie, and is it ever. Boozy fanboys will treat it like a thrill ride.
