The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Movie • 2009 • Horror
ReportThis movie contains 62 potentially triggering events.
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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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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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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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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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namupokemanchan
The centipede is a human, not an insect
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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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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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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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Violence against both women who are in the centipede
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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 had 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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TheAnarchistAgenda
sort of, someone is trapped underneath a pool cover but does not drown
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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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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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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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IV gets ripped out during pool scene
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namupokemanchan
Do butts count as genitals?
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cocoboboco
someone bites someone else, the flesh is spat out though.
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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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Kayden632
YES. The entire movie is all gore.
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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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The victims are all drugged and forcibly operated on.
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Well, I guess you could say they've been through a lot of sh*t...
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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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dashofpuzzles
Teeth are pulled out with pliers, person is under anesthesia
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Yes, when one of the girls managed to escape yet she went back to save her friend
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TheAnarchistAgenda
almost all of the main characters die except for 1
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maxwellgreye
A man is forcefully injected with an unspecified drug which kills him almost instantly.
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cocoboboco
yes, but it's only shortly mentioned that this character is a parent
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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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dashofpuzzles
The Japanese man has to defecate and since B's mouth is sewn to A's anus..WELL.....
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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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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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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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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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maxwellgreye
The scientist injects the victims with multiple things, both to sedate and (in one instance) to kill.
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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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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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maxwellgreye
All of the victims are in a panicked state for most of the movie.
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charcolor
There is very graphic body horror, but no body dysmorphia.
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TheAnarchistAgenda
There is a successful suicide shown on screen
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dashofpuzzles
Someone slits their own throat with a piece of broken glass
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cisrot
It is heavily implied that the antagonist is very mentally disturbed.
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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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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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averagehorrorenjoyer
someone does beg to be killed rather than becoming part of the centipede though
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Alot of screaming
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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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kuroshi
at one point, dr. heiter refers to katsuro as a "kamikaze shithole".
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The doctor called the girl a cow for asking for more water
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h1h4des
the f slur is used
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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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We see butts and bared breasts, as well as Dr. Heiter skippy 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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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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doesthedogdie.comfan
As long as Santa isn’t spoiled, everything else is excused!!
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(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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averagehorrorenjoyer
someone nearly gets trapped under one of those mechanical pool covers but ultimately does not drown
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namupokemanchan
There is so much blood and gore
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