2009 · horror
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Directed by Tom Six1h 32m2009
During 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 has a very disturbed vision.
Our read: The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
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