The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Directed by Tom Six
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon, who has a very disturbed vision.
4 connections found
View:
4 films that influenced this film
What critics say influenced The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Moreover, underneath its centipede idea, the movie more or less plays out like any old "torture porn" movie, a la Hostel and its ilk.
Six has a way of framing a shot and moving his camera that's immediately striking and unnerving, at once refined and slightly off-kilter, but after the film's intense opening scene, when Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) set off for an out-of-the-way party and find themselves lost in the woods and subjected to the vulgar come-ons of a creepy passerby, you fear that the film will be some Hostel redux in which Americans are seen as poor, arrogant lambs led to slaughter by Europeans somehow entitled to their obscenely vengeful behaviors because, well, Americans suck.
Written and directed by Tom Six , The Human Centipede could be described as a much sicker version of Hostel.
Like Eli Roth’s Hostel, The Human Centipede follows two Americans - fun gals Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) - as they travel across Europe.
"The Human Centipede," by skillful Dutch director Tom Six, might be compared to Hollywood schlock like "Hostel."
Also elevating the film above horror cliché is the primary setting: Most of the film takes place in an artfully designed and almost antiseptically clean modern ranch-style home, instead of in the grungy tetanus chambers of the "Saw" and "Hostel" movies.
But stick with it, Six has crafted his picture that will remind genre fans of a young David Cronenberg, circa Dead Ringers.
Equally, there have been many gorier and grosser films, including the fabulous French slasher Inside and Peter Jackson’s brilliant zombie comedy Dead Alive.
The set-up is perfunctory B-movie cheese, straight out of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and countless others, with two dumb American teenagers, Lindsay and Jenny (Ashley C Williams and Ashlynn Yennie), stumbling into a madman’s house after their car breaks down in the woods at night.