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The Human Centipede Review

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4.0

Dave White Profile

You might not want to know. Read full review

1.5

Jen Yamato Profile

It's BYOBB: Bring your own barf bag. Read full review

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  • 2.0
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  • 0

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    There are terrible movies and there are loathsome movies. And then there's that rare breed so idiotic, exploitative and sickening one wishes they could be scrubbed from memory. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is such a specimen. Would that I had 100 legs to kick it.

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  • 0

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

    Crosses the line from horror to just plain sick.

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  • 12

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Six has now made a film deliberately intended to inspire incredulity, nausea and hopefully outrage. It's being booked as a midnight movie, and is it ever. Boozy fanboys will treat it like a thrill ride.

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  • 20

    out of 100

    Variety

    Only real payoff is seeing the monstrosity assembled, and though that will surely earn the Dutch writer-director a cult reputation on the genre circuit, "going there" does not a movie make.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    Centipede plays on the notion that the only thing more frightening than death is a state bridging life and death, in which, though one's body is no longer his own to control, the mind remains conscious.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Unlike its obvious influence, the 1999 Japanese shocker "Audition," The Human Centipede has no real-world echoes. It's an only-in-the-movies sick goof.

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