“Human Centipede” Is Your New Grossest Movie of the Year

There was a lot of squawking and flapping when Lars von Trier’s new film Antichrist debuted at Cannes a few months ago.  I haven’t seen it, but apparently it assaulted the eyes with both genital mutilation and Willem Dafoe (a real one-two punch right there), thus earning it accolades as the Gross Art Movie of the Year.  But now it looks like Christmas came twice for perverts this year, because there’s a literally sick new movie on the block, and it is called Human Centipede.  From a description of the film:

In The Human Centipede, Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser) is a leering, sepulchral surgeon from Germany whose specialty is separating Siamese twins. Dr. Heiter decides to evolve his craft by sewing together living beings together at the “mucous-cutaneous zone” (guess) in order to create Siamese triplets with a single digestive system.

Since “mucous-cutaneous” could mean a lot of things, I’ll give you a hint: it is much, much better to be the first person in the centipede than the second.  So far only a short but disturbing clip of the flick seems to have been released.  Plus more description, after the jump.  

After his experiment in creating a three-segment rottweiler (“a beautiful three-hound construction”) fails, Dr. Heiter tries again, shifting his attention to humans. First, a trucker is stolen away while relieving himself on the side of the road, Next, two clueless party girls who come knocking on Dr. Heiter’s door after getting lost in the German forest get pulled into the experiment. After erasing the trucker from the picture, the doctor finds another victim: a crazed Japanese man wandering around Germany. The doctor concludes the initial phase of his experiment by splicing together the two girls and the Japanese man. At this stage, the film really goes berserk as Dr. Heiter attempts to impose his personal brand of order and discipline on an increasingly out-of-control situation.

Dr. Heiter is just adhering to best practices, as established by cosmetics and aeronautics testing: if the experiment fails on animals, go ahead and try it on humans.  Since humans are different from animals, it will probably work.  ”They recovered the landing module.  The downside is that all the dogs were dead.  The upshot is that now it’s your time to shine!  Suit up!”

Anyway, this movie has all the elements of a cinema classic: crazed Germans, party girls, medical drama, and a Funnel Chair that keeps on giving.  (Do not look up “Funnel Chair.”)  Needless to say, however, this film threatens to ruin the Human Centipede for those of us who just like to give a spin recreationally once and again.  All aboard!  The trailer below is SFW, but if you have delicate sensibilities, perhaps best to avoid.

Source: TwitchFilm via FilmDrunk.