The Human Centipede

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  • Opened April 30, 2010 
  • 1 hr 30 min
  • R | Disturbing sadistic horror violence, nudity and language
  • 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 they find only an isolated villa, whose mysterious owner, Dr Heiter, takes them in for the night. The next day they awake to find themselves in the basement, trapped in a terrifying makeshift hospital with another one of the doctor's abductees. Dr Heiter explains to the three of them that he is retired surgeon who had specialized in separating Siamese twins. However his three "patients" are not about to be separated, but joined together in a horrific operation. He plans to be the first to connect people, one to the next, via their gastric system, and in doing so bring to life his sick lifetime fantasy: 'the human centipede'. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura, Andreas Leupold
  • Director: Tom Six
  • Genres: Horror

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

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. Read full review

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New York Post
| V.A. Musetto

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. Read full review

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Empire
| Kim Newman

This will not appeal to everyone, whether it will appeal to anyone is another question. With dark humour from time to time, underneath an extremely repulsive concept, this is a relatively conventional horror movie. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

The only way to react is by bringing a barf bag or a strong sense of gallows humor. Read full review

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Ashley C. Williams as Lindsay in "The Human Centipede."