It's one thing to make a really sick and controversal film. It's another thing to make a boring, sick controversal film. The Human Centipede falls in the later.
When two American female travellers in Germany blow a tire in a storm, they take refuge at a surgeons house for shelter. Little do they know, they are about to be put into a bizarre and gross experiment and turned into a human centipede. I won't go into detail in how the doctor does it but the concept is kind of fascinating and very gross and unintentionally funny. However it is executed poorly.
The film just drags on and on and gets boring real quick. The acting by the two women is downright terrible and their dialogue almost looks made up on the spot. Although the doctor (who looks like Lance Henriksen) is played well by Dieter Laser, we really don't know much about him and why he's doing this. What makes the film even more dull is that writer/producer/director Tom Six doesn't really have much to say other than, "Hey wouldn't it be gross if these three people were combined together?" My friend Nick nailed it I think when he said that Six is a good producer but bad director. His writing and directing is just down right bland and amaturish.
I guess The Human Centipede is worth checking out if you want to be grossed out but even for die hard horror fans like myself that has seen films like Nekromantik or the Guinea Pig movies, the film is kind of tame. I wasn't disturbed or horrified watching this one, I was fighting to stay awake.
Man of a Thousand Faces
The great Lon Chaney from London After Midnight
