The Human Centipede Reviews

Movie Reviews

• Without a sense of humor or a sense of purpose, all The Human Centipede ultimately ends up with is empty shock value

  by Josh Bell [Filmcritic.com ]

• thoroughly unnerving, breezily alternating between campy humor and a sustained tension that wallows in its own preposterousness

  by Simon Abrams [Slant Magazine ]

• The Human Centipede has no real-world echoes. It's an only-in-the-movies sick goof

  Review rate : B+ by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• Surprisingly witty and definitely repulsive

  Review rate : B+ by Peter Paras [E! Online ]

• 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

  by Peter DeBruge [Variety ]

• More of a stunt than a script, The Human Centipede (First Sequence) should get a modest amount of I-dare-you ticket sales, but it's about as mass market as a dogfight

  by Amy Nicholson [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• It's definitive psychological horror, positioning the viewer to identify with the victim's suffering and lack of free will, even after harshly judging what they did with that free will when they had it

  by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]

• Crosses the line from horror to just plain sick

  by Frank Scheck [Hollywood Reporter ]

Reader's Reviews

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