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A deranged surgeon (Dieter Laser) plans to make his morbid fantasy come true by suturing three people together through their gastric systems.

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Grotesque, visceral and hard to (ahem) swallow, this surgical horror doesn't quite earn its stripes because the gross-outs overwhelm and devalue everything else.

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The Human Centipede | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Nigel Andrews Financial Times [The sequel] is already in the can. Which is where many of us will be, seeking relief for emetically affected stomachs. Rated: 2/5 Aug 26, 2010 Full Review The Human Centipede | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Peter Bradshaw Guardian It scales the heights of yuckiness. It places a flag on a hitherto undreamt-of Everest-peak of offensiveness. Rated: 3/5 Aug 20, 2010 Full Review The Human Centipede | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Sukhdev Sandhu Daily Telegraph (UK) Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take three human beings and sew them all together via their digestive tracts? Wonder no longer! Rated: 2/5 Aug 20, 2010 Full Review The Human Centipede | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Notable only for the sheer oddity behind its concept, The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is not a horror movie that wants to scare you. Instead, it wants to leave you with a sense of revulsion. Rated: 1/4 Aug 18, 2023 Full Review The Human Centipede | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Andrea Hubert NME (New Musical Express) Psychologically indelible nastiness. Rated: 3/5 May 19, 2021 Full Review The Human Centipede | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com The simple truth is that the selling point, beyond the obvious novelty of the entire situation, is the freakish yet disturbing performance of Dieter Laser. Rated: 2.0/4.0 Sep 11, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I love Dieter Laser's acting here. I really like the concept for the movie, and how unique is it. I love everything about this movie. A little off topic, but I'm really sad that the graphic novel didn't come out. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/10/24 Full Review NIKOLAOS C awesome family movie 5/5 Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/29/24 Full Review Bella D The actual movie is not as bad as the reviews make it seem, I thought it would be a hard watch but watched with a straight face the whole time. The ending was sad, but it was an amazing movie!! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/28/24 Full Review Audience Member It’s not even that scary or gross. It’s just plain hard to watch humans be treated like dogs. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 10/26/24 Full Review Cliona M Disgusting! I had to turn it off. Just disgusting. The director Tom disgusting weirdo Six should be sectioned. I now have to erase that memory which will take time. I'm actually angry that I had to see that. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/06/24 Full Review Leslie H This film is the epitome of “disturbing”. It’s not jumps scare horror, it’s not slasher horror…. It’s a fiendishly slow psychological disturbance that simply doesn’t let up. The horror of “knowing what’s coming” that usually tanks a movie, makes this movie that much more uneasy. Without any doubt, this movie is my answer to “Most Disturbing movie you ever watched”. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Tom Six Director Dieter Laser Dr.Heiter Ashley C. Williams Lindsay Ashlynn Yennie Jenny Akihiro Kitamura Katsuro Andreas Leupold Det. Kranz
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Synopsis A deranged surgeon (Dieter Laser) plans to make his morbid fantasy come true by suturing three people together through their gastric systems.

Director
Tom Six

Producer
Ilona Six, Tom Six

Screenwriter
Tom Six

Distributor
IFC Films

Production Co
Six Entertainment

Rating
R (Nudity|Language|Sadistic Horror Violence)

Genre
Horror

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 30, 2010, Limited

Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 27, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA)
$181.5K

Runtime
1h 30m
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