Not for the faint hearted, and do not watch before bed if you actually want to go to sleep because it will play over in your head for weeks to come and may make you physically nauseous. However if you enjoy the truly sick and twisted movies that linger on the mind this should be right up your ally.

This is probably one of the most sadistic films I have ever seen. One of the few horror films where you only see six people die. But this is not about the deaths. It's about the utterly sadistic nature of the acts you see. The utterly sadistic nature of the creation of the Human Centipede.

Conventional yet disturbing, The Human Centipede (First Sequence) follows Americans Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) as they find themselves stranded in the German wilderness after their car gets a flat tire. Their troubles seem to be over as they spot a house in the middle of nowhere, although – as becomes increasingly clear – the sole resident (Dieter Laser's Dr. Heiter) of said house is a far more palpable threat than anything within the outside world. Filmmaker Tom Six has infused The Human Centipede (First Sequence) with a consistently striking visual sensibility that initially offsets the rather amateurish nature of the performances and the dialogue, with the undeniably familiar setup inevitably giving way to an atmosphere of pervasive dread and foreboding eeriness. The progressively disturbing vibe is, however, frequently lessened by Six's almost aggressive reliance on eye-rollingly hoary elements, as the writer/director generally seems to be working from a template for movies of this ilk – with the unreasonably moronic cops that arrive on the scene late in the picture exemplifying Six's penchant for less-than-innovative instances of plotting (and this is to say nothing of the frustratingly open-ended conclusion). There's little doubt that such problems are ultimately rendered moot by the impressively repulsive nature of the film's central conceit, with the startlingly plausible execution of Heiter's downright nauseating plan ensuring that The Human Centipede (First Sequence) sticks with the viewer long after the end credits have rolled.