Human Centipede- Is this the most disgusting horror film of all-time?
Human Centipede stars Ashley C. Williams and Ashlynn Yennie as a pair of fun-hungry Americans who seek refuge at the remote house of a surgeon, played by Dieter Laser, after their car gets a flat in some German woods. To say that Laser’s character is sinister is not to over egg the pudding. The guy has “psycho” written all over him, even when he’s not gazing fondly at a photograph of three dogs who have been attached mouth-to-rump. Before you can say, “Just what the Sam Hill is going on here?,” Laser has drugged our two heroines and begun the process of turning them and another unfortunate, played by Akihiro Kitamura, into, yes, a human centipede.
I’ll spare you the details of how he accomplishes this feat — even if the film itself most definitely does not. I’m also going to pass over describing the consequences of three people sharing a single alimentary canal, though those with a basic knowledge of biology and a strong stomach will probably be able to work those out for themselves. Suffice to say that, at the screening, the groans and moans emitted by the onscreen characters were almost matched by those of the viewers, including myself — and I’m someone who has happily sat through every Saw and Hostel movie.