This is one of those no article would be complete inclusions, but were almost reluctant to include Tom Sixs films anywhere near an article on a family website, not least because of how bad they are. Whatever the case If mad scientists had a private members club, Dr. Heiter would demand membership and probably be barred from the premises. His career as a top flight surgeon had allowed him the opportunity to separate conjoined twins but Heiter always wondered what it would be like to create a conjoined creature, two or more people surgically attached to one another to form a being with one single digestive system. After retirement, the psychopath determines to make his dreams a reality, kidnapping two American women and a Japanese man in order to do so. If youre lucky enough not to have heard of the film or its sequels and now have a mental image that you see every time you close your eyes, then you have our sympathies. Writer/director Tom Six has made two sequels, alleging that, just like Heiter, hed always had a dream: that of creating a portmanteau horror movie trilogy that fitted together the way that Heiters victims do by the end of the first Human Centipede movie. Thats not weird and creepy at all. Sixs movie is saved from being unwatchably bad by Dieter Lasers intense, committed performance in the lead role of the doctor himself and fair play to both Six and Laser, for creating a mad scientist that no ones ever going to forget, try though they might.
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