sonanovotna
I've been reluctantly planning on watching this movie for years. Through many references, jokes and memes on the internet, I have always been aware of the concept of "human centipede", and was greatly repulsed, very apprehensive, but also a bit curious about this controversial movie. However, nothing about having your mouth sawn to somebody's anus and being forced to eat their shit really screamed "must watch" to me. But recently, I dared myself to watch a whole bunch of controversial and weird movies that I otherwise perhaps wouldn't be all that into, so I finally gave The Human Centipede a shot.And to my astonishment, I really really liked it! The biggest part in it played the main villain, doctor Heiter, who was just amazing. There are many movies that are sorta ok, but you just can't get into them because there is no character in them that you really like, or find interesting enough to follow around. Not in this one! Doctor Heiter is a character I fell in love with immediately, he was just so delightfully creepy, weird, evil and completely batshit insane in a really entertaining way, almost like a comic book or an anime villain, it's hard to explain to people who haven't seen for themselves. This guy and his great yet bizzare acting really makes this film worth seeing in my opinion. To dispel your worries I have to say, the movie wasn't nearly as explicit as the concept would suggest. You can never actually see the anus being sawn to mouth, you can't see much of the operation at all, and the finished centipede people are wearing sort of diapers that cover both the anus and the mouth, so you can't see anything. The shit eating actually only took place once on screen, again with nothing being really visible and the scene ending rather abruptly (which I've actually been very grateful for because I've been dreading it all along).All in all, this reads more like a movie about an insane german psychopatic doctor who kidnapps three people and tortures them for no reason like a fucking maniac, than a movie about eating shit, which I was very pleasantly surprised to discover. Long story short, I was throroughly entertained throughout the whole movie and was not bored for a moment. People who give this movie low reviews are simply taking it too seriously, and are not relishing the absurdity and ridiculousness of it all. Watch this movie as a dark absurd comedy and you are set to go! Now I'm not really sure if I wanna give the sequels a watch, because without the dear doctor Heiter who unfortunately perished at the end of this movie, it just won't be the same, I'm afraid...
Zetsubou
Worst shit ever. Don't waste your time.
Although I'm here just to wash away that "Write a review"-thing, I'd like to warn you on the process. You can waste your time on something better.
Mike LeMar
Of course the bad guy's nowhere around when the main girl manages to evade him early on and earn a chance to run away because she stops and makes the ever-typical decision, "I can't leave my friend," and then suddenly IS there to stop them both once she has her around her shoulder. And unlike the newest The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, does she end up regretting that idiotic decision? In the worst way. The Japanese guy goes through the trouble of coming up with the plan of grabbing the scalpel and hiding while the bad guy's talking to the cops upstairs, only to set the group up for failure by biting the guy's neck NEXT to the jugular so that it merely takes a chunk flesh away but clearly isn't spurting any blood and leaving the scalpel in the guy's SHIN (harmless) as he leads the group up the stairs. He didn't have to end up cutting his throat to avoid a standoff with the bad guy had he rationally assumed he wasn't dead by having a scalpel in his shin and a chunk of flesh from the side of his neck gone, or at least taken the scalpel WITH him.
