83 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
75 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
60 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
50 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