20
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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
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.
0
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
The movie stinks to heaven.
0
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Crosses the line from horror to just plain sick.
20
Excruciatingly stupid movie.
83
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.
50
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
The only way to react is by bringing a barf bag or a strong sense of gallows humor.
12
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.
75
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.