Does the dog die?
185 supporters
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Movie • 2009 • Horror
ReportDuring a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon who explains his mad scientific vision to his captives' utter horror. They are to be the subjects of his sick lifetime fantasy: to be the first to connect people, one to the next, and in doing so bring to life "the human centipede."
This movie contains 76 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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Charmeter
Yes through dialogue but not on screen I suggest not watching the movie is one of the most disturbing movies ever
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Unanswered Triggers
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Abandonment
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4
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
22 supporters
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KamiSteele
Only mentioned. A monologue towards the end has a character saying they 'left my child' while talking about their regrets in life, with no further specifics.
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
15 supporters
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maxwellgreye
It's not stalking, but there is a scene where the main villain hunts down a girl while she is trying to escape/hide from him.
He's also very predatory towards both girls from the moment he is introduced.
He's also very predatory towards both girls from the moment he is introduced.
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
50 supporters
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
42 supporters
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KamiSteele
Two of the centipede segments are women, who were friends from New York traveling across Europe. The one male piece is at the front, so they do not get lines after the centipede is made. Generally, the film plays with the potential anxiety of being a woman trapped with a dangerous man, which can be a trigger even before Heiter's intentions are revealed. There's also an early scene where the two women get sexually harassed by an older man as they try to ask for help with their car.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
18 supporters
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Is someone gaslighted?
26 supporters
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KamiSteele
When the girls first arrive at Heiter's house, he pretends to call the car company by acting out a phone conversation. The camera shows us he is actually placing rohypnol into their drinks. Once his true nature is revealed he engages in various forms of psychological abuse and dehumanization of the centipede.
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Yes
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Addiction
Yes
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kuroshi
when meeting jenny and lindsay for the first time, dr. heiter drugs the two in order to make them parts of the human centipede.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
5 supporters
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KamiSteele
Heiter is shown drinking a few times, but never in a way that suggests abuse. (note that Germany's culture around drinking is noticeably more relaxed.)
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Animal
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Does a horse die?
52 supporters
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There are no horses
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IcarusTheBird
It's not on-screen but it does say how there were dogs who died
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Are animals abused?
109 supporters
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trickedboon
There is an image of three dogs crudely sewn together. The main antagonist also mentions the dogs, and the procedures he put them through.
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Is there a dead animal?
59 supporters
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kuroshi
while this is never shown in the movie itself, dr. heiter explains that at one point prior to the movie's events, he had conducted a similar "centipede" experiment on his three rottweilers. it's revealed that, due to this experiment, all the dogs had died.
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Is an animal sad?
42 supporters
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ZenWalker
The doctor mentions that one of the dogs attempted to escape before being turned into the centipede. No animals are actually shown in the movie except for a couple of pictures showing the dog centipede.
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Are there bugs?
17 supporters
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namupokemanchan
The centipede is a human, not an insect
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Assault
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Violence against both women who are in the centipede
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Is someone drugged?
16 supporters
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cisrot
The two main characters are drugged without their consent by the antagonist. The victims are also operated on without consent.
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Is someone held under water?
10 supporters
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TheAnarchistAgenda
sort of, someone is trapped underneath a pool cover but does not drown
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Is rape mentioned?
42 supporters
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KamiSteele
Rohypnol is used to subdue two women, and it's outright described as a 'rape drug' by Heiter.
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Is someone restrained?
11 supporters
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maxwellgreye
All of the victims are restrained before being sewn together, and once they are sewn together they are in a very restrictive position and struggle to move. They are also placed in a cage for a short period of time post surgery.
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KamiSteele
An early scene has the two female protagonists get sexually harassed when their car pops a tire, which prompts them to leave the car and end up at Heiter's. They are shortly after presented with drinks spiked with Rohypnol, which the antagonist outright describes as a 'rape drug'. One of the girls gets knocked out, but the other doesn't, leading to him forcefully using a syringe on her. While no one is ever actually raped, the centipede itself could be considered a form of violation with sexual undertones. It involves three unconsenting people being forced into permanently either having their mouths close to someone's anus and having to consume the waste, having someone else's mouth on their anus and having them consume your waste, or both.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
7 supporters
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KamiSteele
Yes, by the centipede's very nature. The middle and third piece are surgically connected to the anus of the person in front of them by the mouth. The trucker character is also shown with a gag in his mouth.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
27 supporters
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KamiSteele
Not in the movie itself, but apparently one of the inspirations was a dark joke about a way to karmically punish child molesters that involves surgery and a large trucker's rear. This is somewhat referenced by the opening scene, which features Heiter abducting a trucker. The trucker, however, does not become part of the centipede. The centipede itself, consisting of one man and two women, is played for horror.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
17 supporters
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IV gets ripped out during pool scene
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Is there throat mutilation?
13 supporters
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KamiSteele
Someone gets their throat bitten in self-defense, taking out a chunk of flesh that gets spat out (they survive this, but are clearly incapacitated). A major character dies by slitting their own throat in an act of defiance during the climax.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
1 supporters
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cisrot
The characters who have their lips sewn to the anus of the character in front of them struggle to breathe. You can hear them gasping for air a lot.
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Is there cannibalism?
22 supporters
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cocoboboco
someone bites someone else, the flesh is spat out though.
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Is there body horror?
27 supporters
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KamiSteele
Three people get sewn ass-to-mouth by a crazed German doctor. That's the entire premise. It's graphic and not played for laughs. If the concept of a doctor surgically attaching three people into a connected gastric tract is enough to get you even just from the description, you may want to skip this one.
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Is there amputation?
12 supporters
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donnaloveskirt
Not really, but certain small parts of the body are cut up/off and sewn together.
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Are any teeth damaged?
23 supporters
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dashofpuzzles
Teeth are pulled out with pliers, person is under anesthesia
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Does someone become unconscious?
3 supporters
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cisrot
The victims are all drugged and forcibly operated on.
1 comment | Add comment
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
42 supporters
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namupokemanchan
Do butts count as genitals?
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Is someone tortured?
54 supporters
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Lexus14blacklist
Well, I guess you could say they've been through a lot of sh*t...
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Is there excessive gore?
49 supporters
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Kayden632
YES. The entire movie is all gore.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
7 supporters
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1
Yes, when one of the girls managed to escape yet she went back to save her friend
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Does a major character die?
11 supporters
Yes
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TheAnarchistAgenda
almost all of the main characters die except for 1
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Yes
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Yes
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
9 supporters
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maxwellgreye
A man is forcefully injected with an unspecified drug which kills him almost instantly.
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
5 supporters
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36
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maxwellgreye
Yes, a date-rape drug is used to sedate them in one scene and a tranquilizer dart(loaded into a shotgun) is used in another.
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Does a parent die?
6 supporters
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cocoboboco
yes, but it's only shortly mentioned that this character is a parent
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Fear
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
11 supporters
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hotaruin0
The guy at the head of the centipede shits himself into the mouth of the woman behind him.
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Does someone vomit?
56 supporters
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dashofpuzzles
When given the drug one of the women + a cop later on in the movie start spitting up white liquid
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Does someone spit?
8 supporters
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dashofpuzzles
The Japanese man has to defecate and since B's mouth is sewn to A's anus..WELL.....
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
14 supporters
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maxwellgreye
Police detectives are portrayed in a positive light, though they don't succeed in rescuing the victims and both end up dying.
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Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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ZenWalker
They are held captive and can't leave, not in a prison though.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
18 supporters
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maxwellgreye
The scientist injects the victims with multiple things, both to sedate and (in one instance) to kill.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
16 supporters
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trickedboon
No, but the room the main antag keeps his victims in is comparable to most of the horror genre's depictions of torture rooms in mental institutions.
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Is there a hospital scene?
7 supporters
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TheAnarchistAgenda
yes but its not a real hospital, it's just in the scientists basement, but there are hospital beds and medical instruments
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Mental Health
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Does someone have a mental illness?
12 supporters
Yes
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cisrot
It is heavily implied that the antagonist is very mentally disturbed.
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KamiSteele
One of the girls, Lindsay, attempts to escape the doctor as he begins to sedate the segments of the centipede for the surgery. Since she is attached to an IV she rips it out, with her arm profusely bleeding for the rest of the scene. Later, Katsuro, the front piece of the centipede, ends his life by slitting his throat with a piece of glass.
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TheAnarchistAgenda
There is a successful suicide shown on screen
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Is there misophonia?
1 supporters
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Danny96
Oh lawd yes. A lot of yucky sounds. I’d recommend muting it if you really really still wanna watch it
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Is there body dysmorphia?
17 supporters
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8
No
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charcolor
There is very graphic body horror, but no body dysmorphia.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
15 supporters
Yes
1
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averagehorrorenjoyer
someone does beg to be killed rather than becoming part of the centipede though
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Are there anxiety attacks?
17 supporters
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maxwellgreye
All of the victims are in a panicked state for most of the movie.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
14 supporters
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TheAnarchistAgenda
Three people are kept in a large dog cage in multiple scenes, and there is a scene where someone is trapped underneath a pool cover breifly
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dashofpuzzles
Someone slits their own throat with a piece of broken glass
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
18 supporters
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Alot of screaming
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
27 supporters
Yes
4
No
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2
The doctor called the girl a cow for asking for more water
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Does the black guy die first?
13 supporters
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cisrot
There are no black characters in this movie. However, there is one minority (a Japanese man) who dies before anyone else.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
29 supporters
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17
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h1h4des
the f slur is used
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KamiSteele
Undertones of Nazism. The antagonist, Dr. Heiter, is a German doctor, and he performs unethical medical experiments. Fittingly, he shares a first name with Josef Mengele, an infamous Nazi-era physician known for his cruel experiments in Auschwitz. Heiter also specialized in separating conjoined twins before his retirement, which also further connects him to Mengele. No direct anti-semitism is present, but it's worth mentioning the three components of the centipede consist of two white women from New York and a male Japanese tourist, which may further tie into Nazi theming. One of the victims also insults Heiter by calling him a Nazi, and Heiter later insults the Japanese tourist by calling him things like 'kamikaze shithole.'
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Is there hate speech?
18 supporters
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27
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kuroshi
at one point, dr. heiter refers to katsuro as a "kamikaze shithole".
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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4
Sex
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Yes
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Are there nude scenes?
19 supporters
Yes
14
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KamiSteele
We see butts and bared breasts, as well as Dr. Heiter skinny dipping, but these are presented for horror. The first scene has a truck driver trying to relieve himself in the woods, only to be abducted; we see his rear from a relative distance. We get a surgery montage, which includes shots of the victim's rears being operated on. The centipede has bandages covering the lower halves of the segments while leaving the top half completely exposed, but the angles aren't too gratuitous. Dr. Heiter, as mentioned, skinny dips in front of the centipede which is intended as a form of dehumanization, since Heiter sees the centipede as a pet, not a group of human beings (this detail was suggested by the actor who plays him).
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Is there BDSM?
12 supporters
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4
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2
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alexwrites
although it's not depicted in a sexual way, the acts of the movie bear clear resemblance to some branches of bdsm culture, and, in my opinion, were clearly made with fetish in mind. one of the character even yells at the antagonist: "this is your fetish, isn't it?"
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
48 supporters
Add comment
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0
No
20
Sexism
Yes
3
No
8
Sickness
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
8
Is someone terminally ill?
11 supporters
Yes
2
No
4
2
KamiSteele
Some time after the centipede is formed, it's revealed that Jenny, the last segment, is dying of blood poisoning. We see pus from her stitches, as well as her looking pale and lethargic. The movie ends with her passing, which doesn't bode well for Lindsay, the middle piece.
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Social
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Yes
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
2 supporters
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0
No
27
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doesthedogdie.comfan
As long as Santa isn’t spoiled, everything else is excused!!
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Does it have a sad ending?
24 supporters
Yes
34
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kuroshi
(SPOILERS) the movie ends with lindsay being the only survivor, as dr. heiter and the detectives were shot, katsuro committed suicide, and jenny succumbed to her fatal illness. since lindsay is the centerpiece of the centipede, she is left crying, her fate unknown.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
8 supporters
Yes
18
No
5
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alexwrites
it doesn't crash, just bursts a tire
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No
1
Yes
0
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Violence
Yes
0
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22
Is there blood/gore?
30 supporters
Yes
33
No
0
2
namupokemanchan
There is so much blood and gore
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Does someone drown?
10 supporters
Yes
8
No
18
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averagehorrorenjoyer
someone nearly gets trapped under one of those mechanical pool covers but ultimately does not drown
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