10 Movies Everyone Wished Were WAY Crazier
5. The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
The Human Centipede is a textbook example of a movie that sold itself on its completely deranged premise - one that the final film ultimately failed to live up to.
In case you're unaware of the setup - and God bless you if so - The Human Centipede follows a mad German surgeon (Dieter Laser) who kidnaps three tourists and surgically sews them together, from ass-to-mouth, creating the titular "creature."
It's a revolting concept, no question, yet filmmaker Tom Six takes a tamer approach to the material than you'd ever reasonably expect.
Styled less as schlock and more as a European art-horror flick, The Human Centipede is a relatively slow and restrained horror romp which actually spares the audience the most grotesque visuals they might expect to see.
It's still a fundamentally nauseating idea, yes, but a classic case of a high-concept horror movie that really wasn't shot to be that crazy.
But Six evidently heard the complaints, and as proof you should be careful what you wish for, made the terrible two sequels considerably edgier, grosser, more try-hard affairs.