Directed By: Tom Six
Starring: Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, & Akihiro Kitamura
MPAA Rating: R
My Rating: 1 / 10
There is a very wide range of emotions that I imagine writer and director Tom Six hoped to elicit in audiences watching The Human Centipede (First Sequence). Boredom and disinterest were probably not among them. But, you see, this film is not really a film at all; it is a gimmick painfully stretched out to ninety minutes. How is it stretched out, you ask? By employing every standard horror movie cliche imaginable, that's how. Six knows how to create a morbid centerpiece, but he has no idea about how to implement it in a full-length movie. So, by the time the titular "human centipede" came around, I was so dreadfully bored and unengaged with the narrative that I didn't really care. What should have been a shocking, disturbing concept ended up feeling completely lame and uninspired. And, allow me to blunt for a moment: if you can't make a movie where three people are surgically attached mouth-to-anus style and at least make it interesting, then you have failed...and failed miserably.
