MOVIEmeter
Top 5000
Down 79 this week

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

18A  -  Horror  -  27 March 2012 (Netherlands)
4.5
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 4.5/10 from 46,257 users   Metascore: 33/100
Reviews: 397 user | 265 critic | 15 from Metacritic.com

A mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.

Director:

Writer:

Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

On Disc

at Amazon

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 38 titles
created 26 Jun 2011
 
a list of 26 titles
created 07 Oct 2011
 
a list of 39 titles
created 09 Oct 2012
 
a list of 32 titles
created 21 Apr 2013
 
a list of 37 titles
created 7 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) on IMDb 4.5/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of The Human Centipede (First Sequence).

User Polls

9 wins & 2 nominations. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Horror
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.9/10 X  

Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.

Director: Tom Six
Stars: Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black, Laurence R. Harvey
Srpski film (2010)
Certificate: 18+ Horror | Mystery | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.4/10 X  

An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

Director: Srdjan Spasojevic
Stars: Srdjan Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic
Certificate: R Adventure | Horror
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6/10 X  

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Director: Ruggero Deodato
Stars: Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi
Certificate: R Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6/10 X  

Four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to a hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Martyrs (2008)
Certificate: R Drama | Horror
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  

A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Director: Pascal Laugier
Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
Hostel (2005)
Certificate: 18A Horror
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.8/10 X  

Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

Director: Eli Roth
Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson
Certificate: R Crime | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  

A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.

Director: Steven R. Monroe
Stars: Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Andrew Howard
Certificate: R Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  

Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.

Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Stars: Alysson Paradis, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Claude Lulé
Horror

The plot is unknown, though it is set in an American maximum security prison in the middle of the desert.

Director: Tom Six
Stars: Eric Roberts, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Bree Olson
I Love Dries (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Music
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.3/10 X  

This movie is about a couple that kidnaps a famous singer to use his seed for the baby they want. The woman is crazy about the singer and the man is sterile. That this leads to stupid situations is a given.

Director: Tom Six
Stars: Dries Roelvink, René de Wit, Rikkie de Wit
Gay (2004)
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2.8/10 X  
Director: Tom Six
Stars: Hugo Metsers, Joris van de Sande, Nienke Brinkhuis
Honeyz (2007)
Action | Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.5/10 X  
Director: Tom Six
Stars: Monique van der Werff, Anna Speller, Peter Beense
Edit

Cast

Complete credited cast:
...
...
...
...
Andreas Leupold ...
...
Bernd Kostrau ...
Rene de Wit ...
Truck Driver
Sylvia Zidek ...
Hotel Receptionist (voice)
Rosemary Annabella ...
Amy (voice) (as Monica Iconica)
Mauricio D' Orey ...
TV Presenter (voice) (as Maurício d'Orey)
Edit

Storyline

Two pretty but ditsy American girls are on a road trip through Europe. In Germany, they end up alone at night with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa. The next day, they awaken to find themselves trapped in a terrifying makeshift basement hospital along with a Japanese man. An older German man identifies himself as a retired surgeon specialized in separating Siamese twins. However, his three "patients" are not about to be separated but joined together in a horrific operation. He plans to be the first person to connect people via their gastric systems. By doing so, he plans to bring to life his sick lifetime fantasy, the human centipede. Written by Producer Ilona Six

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Taglines:

100% medically accurate. See more »

Genres:

Horror

Certificate:

18A | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Country:

Language:

| |

Release Date:

27 March 2012 (Netherlands)  »

Also Known As:

A Centopeia Humana  »

Box Office

Budget:

€1,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$12,424 (USA) (30 April 2010)

Gross:

$181,467 (USA) (25 June 2010)
 »

Company Credits

Production Co:

 »
Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1 / (high definition)
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

The cage the human centipede was kept in was a real dog cage. See more »

Goofs

When the doctor joins the three for the first time and begins taking photos, he is using a Canon Digital Rebel. When the camera angle changes and shows him taking photographs again, he is shown to be using a Nikon camera. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Jenny: [speaking on a hotel phone] Hi. Yes, um, I was wondering if I could get driving directions to a nightclub called Bunker. Yes, Bunker. How exactly would I get there?
See more »

Crazy Credits

Tom Six's dog Nigel is credited under "Edited by" and "Making of edited by" as "NIGEL DE HOND", which is Dutch for "Nigel the dog". See more »

Connections

Referenced in Supernatural: The Slice Girls (2012) See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

See more (Spoiler Alert!) »

User Reviews

 
This Surgeon Could Lose His Board Certification!
2 May 2010 | by (L.A. CA) – See all my reviews

Okay, American tourists with a car that breaks down - of course they go wandering through the dark German woods (you could play a drinking game and have to take a shot every time they say "Lindsay" and "Jenny" to each other - you'd be wasted) - and they come about a remote house and wouldn't you know it - just their luck - the house belongs to a complete nutjob surgeon who used to separate conjoined twins and now is obsessed with stitching people together. I'm no doctor, but there seem to be major flaws in his medical design - oh well. The film is kooky but well made, the lead guy (who looks a bit like Lance Henrickson) gives 100% and is fine as the mad doctor but the whole concept reeks of teenage boys getting stoned for the first time and playing a game - let's come up with the grossest thing that could be done to you in surgery. That's what it plays like - a teenage boy horror/fantasy/gross out. But with films like Saw and Hostel, it was only a matter of time before there was something like this and before long, they'll be other weird concepts that will try and top this one. Look out for ManBaby - see we sew a baby on the back of a guy who hates kids! It's creepy and it's funny! Hoo boy. Of course there's an itch to see something like this - the same itch that made people pay money to go see a freak show back in the day.


133 of 220 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Am I the only one not horribly disturbed by this movie? totesfancy
Only 4.7?! Really?? tkranjc
My Church Group totigerus
Things I learned from The Human Centipede... saywhat26
If this is 100% Medically Accurate then... Rainbowwarrior1622
Do you think Lindsay lives? bodah-1

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?