See that image right there? If you can stomach that, you've seen the worst this movie has to offer.
I picked this up from my local Family Video after hearing all sorts of nonsense about how the movie is controversial, shocking, horrifying, etc. I found it to be none of these things.
One Dr. Heiter, a man of questionable medical integrity, decides that he's going to sew three human beings together ass-to-mouth, and call it a human centipede. He mentions being an expert at separating conjoined twins, but apparently has the desire to go in the opposite direction and um..conjoin them again.
He kidnaps three people, two American girls and a trucker, for the project. He decides the trucker isn't compatible, and kills him before moving on to a Japanese man as the head of his glorious "centipede." He gleefully explains their fate to them, with a slideshow to go along with it, and then its surgery time.
Obviously there's more, but that would be spoileriffic. And from the little plot synopsis I've given, you've really seen the worse this movie has to offer. There's really no gore factor, and bandages conveniently cover any of the squicky bits, leaving you with a trio of people crawling in close proximity to each others' anuses.
Now I may be jaded or possibly numb to this sort of thing, but five minutes into your average SAW movie produces horrors ten times worse than this. The most disturbing part of the film is probably Dr. Heiter himself, played by a German actor named Deiter Laser. And that is an AWESOME name to go with an awesome actor. He plays a very manic character, who has an almost childlike glee towards his amazing creation, dancing around it merrily as he watches the lead human poop into the middle human's mouth. (luckily, it's implied rather than shown.) He flies into fits of rage at the drop of a hat, and treats his "centipede" like a housepet.
The lack of any real motivation behind his actions is what makes him so scary, and what makes the movie so weird. If you're easily wigged out by implied body horror, implied defecation, and implied weird shit, this movie isn't for you. But if you've seen any of today's "torture porn" movies like Saw or Hostel, then this is pretty much a yawn factory, as you've seen it all before, but with actual gore and nastiness.
Is it worth it? Yes. Laser's performance MAKES this movie. It's certainly the weirdest thing you'll see today outside of internet videos. The other actor's dialogue is meaningless and cliche, falling into the "You won't get away with this!" school of cliches, but again, watch Dr. Heiter's every move and facial expression. The man is a joy to watch. I think I may have felt more for him than his victims, and probably because he was the only three-dimensional character in the whole movie.
So stop being a baby, and go rent it. If this is as super controversial as it's made out to be, then our standards have gotten a bit low.
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