There are some things that even I – a seasoned horror fan who has seen it all – can’t take, and THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE sounds like it might be one of those things. Just the idea, just thinking about it makes me wanna f*cking puke my early morning beer up. So instead of focusing on the plot, I’ll just tell you that the flick now has a limited release in the works – because what could be more fun than sitting in a theater with a bunch of people while watching someone’s face get attached to someone else’s anus!
We just received word that IFC Films will release the film on APRIL 30th in New York City, and then expand it to other markets soon after. So, presumably, all the big cities will get a chance to experience this nightmare for themselves. Naturally, it will also be available on VOD around the same time.
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE is an unconventional – and medically accurate — biological horror film that enthusiastically explores territory that few filmmakers dare to tread. When two pretty American girls go on a road trip in Europe, they end up alone at night in Germany with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa, and awake the next day to find themselves trapped in a terrifying makeshift basement hospital. Their captor is the internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter with a demented vision for mankind’s future existence. Dr. Heiter wants to remove human beings’ kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. But when his victims give him more trouble than he expects – including unwanted attention from the authorities – Dr. Heiter is forced to decide whether to abandon his latest project, or protect it from the outside world – with their and his very lives, if necessary.
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE premiered at Fantastic Fest in 2009, receiving the top prize for Best Horror Film and Best Actor for Dieter Laser. It also captured Best Picture at the 2009 Scream Fest.
Ashley C. Williams, one of the unlucky pieces of the centipede