The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Name: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Genre: Horror

Netherlands · 2009
Rated R · 1h 32m
Director Tom Six
Starring Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura
Genre Horror

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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Variety by

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.

Boxoffice Magazine by Amy Nicholson

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.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

The movie stinks to heaven.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Crosses the line from horror to just plain sick.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Excruciatingly stupid movie.

Entertainment Weekly by 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.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

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

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

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.

New York Post by 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.