MOVIE · 2009

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Horror92 min

Stranded in rural Germany after their car breaks down, two American tourists seek help at an isolated villa and fall into the hands of a retired surgeon with a grotesque medical obsession. Dieter Laser is Dr. Heiter, a former specialist whose courtly manners and immaculate home barely disguise the experiment he has planned. Ashlynn Yennie and Ashley C. Williams are the travelers trapped in his orbit, alongside a Japanese tourist (Akihiro Kitamura) who becomes part of Heiter’s design. The horror turns on antiseptic rooms, surgical tools, and Heiter’s cold, clinical certainty about what he wants to build.