Movie Review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence) by shoutingatco.ws
The Human Centipede (First Sequence), then. The “First Sequence” appendage does mean that like the Matrix or a dodgy curry, this movie will definitely be back for more. Yes, it’s the first of a trilogy. Excited?
The film centres around a mental German doctor that is bored of splitting up Siamese twins, and decides to stick people together. He takes three people – two vaguely hot American girls that break down improbably right outside his house – and a Japanese guy, and sort of stitches them together. How? I hear you not asking at all. Mouth to anus.
Who said the movies aren’t all about glamour? Yes, it’s riotously disgusting, and the entire thing is shot with no charm or anything but the grimiest, gloomiest attention to detail. It’s dark, rank and there’s barely any dialogue. Especially from the two girls at the back of the centipede.
The kidnapees are drugged in the mad doctor’s portable hospital, which he handily keeps knocking about in the basement of his house. He cuts away at their mouths and bums, sewing everything back together to make one long person; that is, if people crawled on all fours and gave out muffled screams constantly.
If you’re comfortable with the goriness (and most of it is hidden under bandages, there’s no cheeky shots of the Japanese guy’s winking brown eye), then the film itself is actually pretty boring. Everything just happens co-incidentally, from the girls breaking down in the wrong place, to the inevitable Police arrival. It’s relying on the grossness to carry the film.
And is it gross? God yes. Unnecessarily, unerringly, unstoppably bleak from start to finish. A lot of the time, you see the consequence of the horror, rather than the acts being performed, and somehow that’s worse. But it’s not a great film. There’s no point to the gore, it exists for its own sake, just to disturb and shock.
Should you watch it? Of course, if only to say “I saw the film with a crazy guy that sewed three people together for absolutely no reason.” You’ll love it, sicko.
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I want to be in the middle baby
Why did the girl at the back simply eat the other two? Anyway i found this film very arrousing and it made me quite hungry..
i felt like puking after hearing about this movie from my friend, never watched it but i herd the middle person lived.. how did the first person die? i would have though he would have lived.. not the person in the middle eating shit -__-
the first person went crazy and started to think that the crazed doctor was ‘God’ and the state the guy was in was his punishment, so he slit his own throat with a shard of glass. the girl at the back died from infections etc. so the girl in the middle is bloody well screwed. should be there as we speak! :P
I was feeling to puke while watching what he was gonna do to them, but I liked it =). And the reason of joining them, was because he tried first with his three dogs, but he was ambicious and aimed to do it with people, also, when he was “training” them, he was doing it as if it was a dog, trying them to learn dog tricks, and if they were bad, he punished them. I always laugh and hate suspense and horror movies, but this is the first I like, I really get what the characters go through, and I see the realistic part of it, then, the reason why it can be real…