Synopsis

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE is an unconventional – and medically accurate -- biological horror film that enthusiastically explores territory that few filmmakers dare to tread. When two pretty American girls go on a road trip in Europe, they end up alone at night in Germany with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa, and awake the next day to find themselves trapped in a terrifying makeshift basement hospital. Their captor is the internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter with a demented vision for mankind's future existence. Dr. Heiter wants to remove human beings' kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. But when his victims give him more trouble than he expects – including unwanted attention from the authorities - Dr. Heiter is forced to decide whether to abandon his latest project, or protect it from the outside world – with their and his very lives, if necessary.

Official Review

American tourists Lindsey (Ashley Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), find themselves stranded in a remote part of Germany after getting a flat tyre on the way to a party. Heading off into the woods they come across the luxury home-cum-hospital of Dr Heiter (Dieter Laser). An internationally respected leader in the field of siamese/conjoined twin surgery, Dr Heiter’s vision is to reverse the process, creating the world’s first human centipede. Realising fate has handed him his latest ‘segments,’ Heiter drugs the girls and keeps them prisoner in his basement hospital. Finding and kidnapping a Japanese male tourist, Dr Heiter completes his trifecta of terror and begins work on his human centipede. Heiter’s plan is simple (!) – a tissue match, followed by the severing of the tendons in the kneecap forcing his victims to exist on all fours, then surgically attach them mouth to anus via the removal of teeth and the addition of buttock to face skin grafts, finally forming his human centipede chain. …Read More