The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Easily one of the sickliest and most perverse films ever made “The Human Centipede (First Sequence) takes audiences into the mind of a mad scientist and his bizarre experimentations. Written and directed by Tom Six, “The Human Centipede (First Sequence)” evokes the sensory and explicit tone of something David Cronenberg might make but on level so barmy, audiences will have no idea what to expect.

In the film American tourists Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) find themselves marooned in the middle of Europe after their transport gets a flat tire. Making their way to a safe place the two tourists comes across a isolated dwelling belonging to a retired medical doctor Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser) who formerly specialized in the separation of conjoined twins. Now a madman who breaks the laws of science and medicine Dr. Heiter seeks to perfect the impossible of making a human centipede by conjoining together three humans via the gastric system. Now at the hands and under the capture of Dr. Heiter, Lindsay and Jenny find themselves conjoined with a Japanese man forming the inexplicable human centipede.

A truly one of its kind mad scientist film, “The Human Centipede (Fist sequence)” greatest attribute is the approach the filmmakers took in making a film that in no way holds bag in its explicit nature. I’m in no way kidding this film is so sick at points audiences will want to look away or better yet stop watching. For example in order for the second and third section of the human centipede to eat and live on, they must forcefully consume the feces of the centipede in front of it. Have I lost you yet? I don’t blame you if I did, that is the sort of sickness this film exemplifies. This aspect of the film really makes the film work on a level that is quite nobel but, the rest of the feature just doesn’t live up.

The entire scenario of the American tourists finding themselves at the hand of a European madman has been way overdone in recent years (i.e. “HOSTEL) and it is in no way fresh in this film. The performances work fairly well most notably that performance of Dieter Laser as the madcap doctor Dr. Heiter. He truly makes the film interesting to say the least. At the films close “The Human centipede (First Sequence)” is a unusual horror film that is rather interesting…that is if audiences are able to make it all the way to the films disturbing conclusion. This is one distressing piece of art house cinema that is attention-grabbing, yet at times way out of the ordinary.

Review by Chanel Mack