The Human Centipede is a 2009 Dutch independent body horror film written and directed by Tom Six. The story centers on a deranged German surgeon, Dr. Josef Heiter, who kidnaps three tourists and surgically conjoins them mouth-to-anus, creating a "human centipede"-a single digestive system shared by all three victims. The victims are forced to crawl and endure extreme physical and psychological torment as a result of the horrific surgery. The film explores this grotesque concept in detail, including the surgeon's background as an expert in separating conjoined twins and his twisted ambition to create new creatures by sewing humans together
. The film was inspired partly by a dark joke and historical Nazi medical experiments. It premiered at the London FrightFest Film Festival in 2009 and received mixed reviews but gained notoriety for its shocking premise. It spawned two sequels, completing a trilogy that was later combined into a single film called "Complete Sequence"
. In summary, The Human Centipede is a horror movie about a mad scientist who surgically connects people in a disturbing and grotesque manner, creating a single "centipede" of human bodies linked through their digestive tracts
