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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanUnlike 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.
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceCentipede 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.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoDieter Laser is grand as the doc, a character Christopher Walken would be comfortable doing, and Akihiro Kitamura provides laughs as the first part of the centipede.
- 50Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonBoxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonMore 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.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe only way to react is by bringing a barf bag or a strong sense of gallows humor.
- 20VarietyVarietyOnly 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.
- 20Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfExcruciatingly stupid movie.
- 12Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSix 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.
- 0New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe movie stinks to heaven.
- 0The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckCrosses the line from horror to just plain sick.