If you haven't heard anything about this movie, here it is in a nutshell : Some crazy German doctor is obsessed with sewing animals and humans together in threes : ass to mouth. Yeah. I don't know either.Pretty cookie-cutter set up starts us off. A couple of American girls visiting Europe break down in the woods and happen on Herr Doktor's house. He drugs them and we get right down to sewing these two in said manner to the "lead segment", a poor Japanese fellow who doesn't speak English.
So that's the movie. It gets right to it, with no explanation why the doctor has this obsession with sewing living creatures together this way. There's a small amount devoted to escape attempts, and the end when the doctor is discovered by police, but, for the most part, it's the doctor and his creation spending quality time together.
The controversy from the movie comes from the manner in which the people are sewn together and how... business... is taken care of. Aside from one scene (and nothing is shown, it's the implied thought) there isn't much more to cringe at. Well, other than the idea of having your mouth sewn to someone's anus.
The whole thing is completely ludicrous, of course. The saving factor of the movie was Dieter Laser (Dr. Heiter). The guy is just frigging weird. I'm talking above his weird fetish, the guy is just plain creepy. We walks around in TF2 medic garb and aviators most of the movie and there are long shots of him just making weird faces.
Anyway, I'm sure it's destined to become a cult hit, and it's watchable, but I think that The Human Centipede doesn't live up to the controversy.
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