Full-length feature film review (The Human Centipede)

Plot overview: 'Two American college girls become the subjects of a sadistic medical experiment while on a road trip across Europe. Invited to a party by a handsome waiter, Jenny and Lindsay are en route to the festivities when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Desperate, they decide to seek help on foot, eventually coming across the home of a retired surgeon named Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser). Dr. Heiter is internationally renowned for his work on separating conjoined twins, but these days he's using his surgical skills for something entirely different. His goal is to create a human centipede by removing his patient's kneecaps, and sewing them together, mouth-to-anus. The only thing preventing Dr. Heiter from carrying out his experiment is a lack of human subjects. When Jenny and Lindsay arrive on his doorstep, Dr. Heiter enthusiastically begins prepping for surgery.' 


A Review/ comments: 'It's an undeniably revolting concept, but most of the actual gore would be matched by your average pre-watershed medical shock doc.' - Quentin Clarke


+/- Out of 21 critics, 11 critics liked it. They are reviewed by either independent site members or journalists.


 An abundant critique that reviewers comment on immediately is the director Tom Six's explicit, gruesome and utterly mind-boggling concept of creating a triplet-Human centipede, attaching the victims mouth-to-anus as to create a creature with one singular digestive system. No director in history has ever stretched the boundaries of gore and horror as much as Six, and the latest addition 'The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence' is banned from release in England due to its horrendously gory qualities. As the genre remains to be referred to as a slasher horror, it is still obvious that this film definitely tests the genres limits. Surely a film of this degree of horror deserves it's own category.