The Human Centipede.
A very bizarre film about some mad
doctor (played and hammed up wonderfully by Dieter Lazer) who after a
long career separating co joined twins has finally flipped and
decided to make a human centipede – first stage – by operating on
people and joining them together.
Cue the victims a pair of vacuous
American girls who despite travelling to Germany, have failed to
learn the language and who's main aim for the evening appears to be
their desire to get to some club and no doubt have some German inside
them.
They hire a car and surprise surprise
it breaks down. Now its about here my sympathy for said victims
beings to wane. They obviously spend the vehicle mechanics lessons
filing their nails and texting and so make no effort to fix the car.
After a brief run in with some old
German pervert who pulls up in the hope of pulling them, they decide
to leave the car and rather than walk along the road wander off into
the woods. No really they do.
Naturally this brings them right to the
home of the mad German doctor. Herr doctor soon has them drugged and
tied to hospital beds along with some poor lorry driver who he darted
at the start of the film and who he kills off for being incompatible
with the girls in the forthcoming operation.
Not that this stops him, he picks up
with his dart gun, some Japanese chap- insert your own joke about
popping out for an Asian here- and after explaining to his victims
what he is up to which also makes it clear to the audience Herr doc
gets down to work.
There is a rather silly escape attempt
by one of the not to bright girls, who attempts to drag the other
drugged girl out rather than using common sense and legging on her
own to the nearest police station.
Before you can say “Mad German
scientist” they are all sown together and the centipede is created.
There are plot holes that one could fly a 747 through in the film and
quite a few glaring errors, but that aside an enjoyable romp and Deiter is playing
the old mad German theme to the hilt.
I guess the moral of the film is don't
wander off into dark German forests and pay attention during vehicle
mechanics lessons in school.
Links and bits:
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2010 Dutch horror film written and directed by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a "human centipede". It stars Dieter Laser as the villain, Dr. Heiter, with Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura
as his victims. According to Six, the concept of the film arose from a
joke he made with friends about punishing a child molester by stitching
his mouth to the anus of a "fat truck driver". Six also stated that inspiration for the film came from Nazi medical experiments carried out during World War II, such as the crimes of Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp.When approaching investors prior to filming, Six did not mention the mouth-to-anus aspect of the plot, fearing it would put off potential backers. The financiers of The Human Centipede did not discover the full nature of the film until it was complete. The film received mixed reviews from mainstream film critics, but it won several accolades at international film festivals. The film was released in the United States on a limited release theatrically on April 30 2010. A sequel, The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), also written and directed by Six, was released in 2011.
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