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The controversial horror film "The Human Centipede" was so disturbing that it was banned in some countries, but the controversy only made it more popular. Renowned film critic Roger Ebert refused to give "The Human Centipede" a star rating, stating that the star rating system was unsuited to the film, which he found depraved and disgusting. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, "The Human Centipede" continues to be divisive, with some praising its direction and performances while others found it revolting and repulsive.

The horror genre is home to many controversial and divisive movies, and one, in particular, led to Roger Ebert refusing to review it. Due to their style, purpose, characters, and the themes addressed in horror movies, these often receive backlash and some even end up being banned in different countries. Other horror movies benefit from the controversy they generate and become quite popular, largely thanks to their quality,...

Maybe don’t watch it – But let’s decipher this controversial movie series, and you can decide for yourself! Within horror cinema, certain films venture into the deepest recesses of human fear, leaving an indelible mark on our psyche. One such movie that has etched itself into the annals of controversial horror is “The Human Centipede.” As you gear up to explore this unsettling and provocative cinematic landscape, there are numerous aspects you ought to be aware of.

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Dr. Josef Heiter, portrayed by Dieter Laser

Released in 2009, “The Human Centipede” isn’t your run-of-the-mill horror flick. It dives headfirst into an abyss of depravity and cruelty, conjuring a grotesque nightmare. The twisted narrative revolves around Dr. Josef Heiter, portrayed by Dieter Laser, a mad scientist who becomes consumed by a horrific experiment. He kidnaps three innocent victims,...

When Tom Six's horror freakout "The Human Centipede (First Sequence)" was released in 2009, it was met with much disgust and ballyhoo. The poster boasted that the film was "100 medically accurate," something that no movie poster should ever boast. 

The premise was wild and gross and repelled prudes while attracting seekers of the extreme. A mad scientist named Dr. Josef Heiter (Dieter Laser) -- clearly inspired by Josef Mengele -- kidnaps three hapless tourists and announces his dark plan while they are strapped to gurneys in his basement. Dr. Heiter intends to surgically connect the three people via their alimentary canals. He will connect one person's face to the previous person's anus, and remove tendons in their knees, forcing them to crawl. In so doing, he will create a human centipede. There is no stated reason for his experiment. 

Audiences who saw "The Human Centipede" were appropriately grossed out. The...

You can’t help but have high hopes for a film called Fried Barry so thankfully expectations have been massively exceeded. Writer/director Ryan Kruger extends his 2017 short of the same name into a phenomenal mind-f**k masterpiece that transcends nano-budget B movie trappings.

The script doesn’t let up as we’re swiftly introduced to Barry (brilliantly played by Gary Green), a perpetually frazzled, financially struggling, drug addled dad/scumbag, who looks like a hybrid of Lee Van Cleef, Julian Beck (Kane from Poltergeist 2) and Dieter Laser from The Human Centipede films.

After walking out on his wife and young son, Barry goes pub, gets tousled on heroin and is then either possessed by extra-terrestrials or has the type of frighteningly heightened hallucination that would suggest he’s been cajoled onto a toad licking frenzy by a psycho Shaman from Mars.

We’re then swiftly booted face first into Barry’s odyssey,...

“M*A*S*H” actor Timothy Brown has died of complications related to dementia, according to Fox News. He was 82.

The Indiana-born actor appeared in both the 1970 “M*A*S*H” movie as well as the TV series. He played Cpl. Judson in the movie, and in the TV series he played Capt. Olver Harmon “Spearchucker” Jones until he was written out after Season 1.

But acting wasn’t his only profession. Brown also had a 10-year-long football career in the NFL, where he played for the Green Bay Packers, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Baltimore Colts.

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After retiring from acting, he had a whole other career as a correctional officer in Los Angeles. He was living in Palm Springs at the time of his death.

The official Twitter account for the Philadelphia Eagles shared a tribute to Brown Friday.

“The Eagles are saddened to learn of the...

German actor Dieter Laser, who played evil scientist Dr. Josef Heiter in “The Human Centipede,” died on Feb. 29 in Germany. He was 78.

Laser’s death has only now come to light via an announcement posted to his Facebook page on Thursday. “We are very sorry to have to inform you that Dieter Laser passed away on February 29, 2020,” the post said. The cause of death was not disclosed.

Laser was born on Feb. 17, 1942, in Kiel, Germany, according to his IMDb page. He is best known for his bone-chilling portrayal of Heiter in “The Human Centipede,” as well as Mantrid in science-fiction TV series “Lexx” and Professor Otto Blaettchen in the 1996 WWII drama “The Ogre.” In 1975, Laser was awarded best actor at the German Film Awards for his first feature film, “John Glückstadt,” in which he played the titular role.

According to IMDb, Laser began his career at 16 by showing up to...

Dieter Laser, the star of The Human Centipede, has died. He was 78.

The announcement of his death was posted on his Facebook page on Thursday, revealing the German actor had died in February although the cause of death was not revealed.

“We are very sorry to have to inform you that Dieter Laser passed away on February 29, 2020,” the post read.

Laser became internationally known after he played a deranged and sadistic doctor in The Human Centipede. In the controversial horror film, his character kidnaps three tourists and then stitches them together to recreate a centipede.

He appeared in the third...

Dieter Laser, the German actor best known for his role as the deranged doctor in “The Human Centipede,” has died. He was 78.

A post on his Facebook page stated that the actor passed away on Feb. 29.

“We are very sorry to have to inform you that Dieter Laser passed away on February 29, 2020,” the post read. No cause of death was mentioned.

Also Read: 'Human Centipede' Director Tom Six Takes on Censorship, Critics: 'I Like the People Who Hate It'

Laser had more than 60 films and TV series credited to his name, including Tom Six’s “The Human Centipede,” in which he kidnaps three tourists and surgically joins them together. The 2009 horror film became a cult hit.

On Thursday, Six took to Twitter to share his condolences, writing, “I’m totally shocked Dieter passed away. He was a force of nature, an [sic] unique human being and an iconic actor. I’m...

German actor achieved international prominence for his role as a deranged doctor in the film, which won awards at horror and fantasy festivals

Dieter Laser, star of outrage-horror film The Human Centipede, has died aged 78. The news was announced in a post on his Facebook page, saying that the actor had died on 29 February. No cause of death was given.

Laser achieved international prominence for his role in The Human Centipede, playing the deranged doctor who stitches together three captive tourists mouth-to-anus, to form the grotesque creation of the title. Written and directed by Dutch film-maker Tom Six and released in 2009, it won a number of awards at horror and fantasy film festivals, including best actor for Laser at the Austin Fantastic Fest. Laser also appeared in the third Human Centipede film, released in 2015, as a sadistic prison boss who orders all the inmates to be sewn together.

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Dieter Laser, a veteran German actor best known to international audiences for playing the evil Dr. Heiter in cult horror film The Human Centipede, has died. He was 78.

Laser's wife Inge told media on Friday that her husband had died in Berlin on Feb. 29.

Laser appeared in more than 60 films and TV series, starring alongside Bruno Ganz in a TV production of Peer Gynt, with Glenn Close in István Szabó's Meeting Venus (1991) and with John Malkovich in Volker Schlöndorff's The Orge (1995). But international audiences knew him best for roles in schlocky cult hits,...

Dieter Laser, a veteran German actor best known to international audiences for playing the evil Dr. Heiter in cult horror film The Human Centipede, has died. He was 78.

Laser's wife Inge told media on Friday that her husband had died in Berlin on Feb. 29.

Laser appeared in more than 60 films and TV series, starring alongside Bruno Ganz in a TV production of Peer Gynt, with Glenn Close in István Szabó's Meeting Venus (1991) and with John Malkovich in Volker Schlöndorff's The Orge (1995). But international audiences knew him best for roles in schlocky cult hits,...

Even more terrible news is coming in today as veteran German actor Dieter Laser has sadly passed away. A screen actor for decades, Laser is perhaps best known for portraying villains in the controversial horror trilogy The Human Centipede. News of his passing comes from a post on the actor's Facebook page, relaying to his followers Laser died in February. "We are very sorry to have to inform you that Dieter Laser passed away on February 29, 2020," the post states in both German and English. He was 78 years old.

Fans and others who knew Laser have been expressing their sadness over the news on social media. This includes Tom Six, who directed Dieter Laser in The Human Centipede, as the filmmaker also spoke about Laser's death on Twitter. "I'm totally shocked Dieter passed away," Six says in the tweet, adding several photos of the two of them together. Of Laser, Six...

Dieter Laser, the German actor who appeared in The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) has reportedly passed away. According to Dread Central, who picked up the news on social media, Laser died on February 29th aged 78. The actor, who also showed up in Lexx and a number of German productions, was perhaps best-known for his role as Dr. Josef Heiter in Tom Six’s controversial 2009 film, where he attempts to create a ‘human centipede’ out of unwilling victims.

Laser was born in Kiel in 1942, and despite doubts due to his fundamentalist Christian upbringing, broke into acting aged sixteen when he asked the doorman at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg how to become a performer. Beginning work as an extra, he developed a career in the theatre, including as co-founder of the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin. Laser later gained attention for his lead role in the 1975 film John Glückstadt,...

In what can only be described as the confectionery equivalent of “nobody asked,” the parody company Unnecessary Inventions have created a gummy candy in the style of the gross-out horror film The Human Centipede. Designed by twisted mastermind Matt Benedetto, the candy depicts three gummy humans all attached to each other in a similar way to the victims from the first movie.

If this wasn’t enough, the pièce de résistance is a little red line running through each “person” as an obvious means of depicting the intestines that connects them all. Has anyone gone off their appetite yet?

We haven’t tried any, but if we know gummy candy, the taste is probably quite sweet. Still, the fact that they’re associated with the films might be enough to put some people off. In any case, you can see them for yourself in the gallery down below:

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There may not have been anybody on the planet asking for them, but the twisted minds at Unnecessary Inventions have designed a gummy candy inspired by the gross-out horror flick The Human Centipede. Although the taste is likely to be very pleasantly sugary and sweet, the design of the gummies is not quite so appealing. Bearing a resemblance to the vision of the mad scientist's creation in the movie, each gummy features three people attached together in a particularly crude way which is bound to spoil your appetite.

In The Human Centipede, Dieter Laser stars as mad scientist Dr. Josef Heiter. The story follows him kidnapping three tourists with the intention of developing a "human centipede" by stitching one victim's mouth to the anus of another. Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura also starred as the lucky ones to be a part of this apparent "pet project." Heiter's plan is ultimately successful,...

What is the point of having a soul if everyone around you doesn’t? That’s the central question asked by Rainer Sarnet’s November, a bleakly told Estonian fairy tale tragedy adapted from Andrus Kivirähk’s novel Rehepapp. At its core is romance — the kind based in unrequited love that will never bear fruit. Liina (Rea Lest) is a peasant girl trying to catch Hans’ (Jörgen Liik) eye while his sights are affixed well above his social stature upon the German Baron’s (Dieter Laser) visiting daughter (Jette Loona Hermanis). They each leave their homes at night to watch the objection of their affection, the latter hiding in the shadows behind the Baroness as she sleepwalks and the former transformed into a wolf so she may spy in plain sight.

These two are seemingly the last young children in a town ravaged by the black plague. Many believed them...

November Trailer Rainer Sarnet‘s November (2017) movie trailer stars Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Arvo Kukumägi, Arvo Kukumägi, Taavi Eelmaa, and Dieter Laser. November’s plot synopsis: based on the novel by Andrus Kivirähk, “The story is set in a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam. The villagers’ main problem is how to survive [...]

Continue reading: November (2017) Movie Trailer: Peasants & the Supernatural Co-mingle in a 19th Century Village...

"Take your pants off and put them on your head." Oscilloscope Labs has debuted the official Us trailer for an insane fantasy horror romance film from Estonia titled November, which first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. Adapted from the best-selling novel Rehepapp by Andrus Kivirähk, the film is set in a 19th century village, where the peasant girl Liina longs for the simple boy Hans, but Hans is inexplicably infatuated by a visiting German baroness who possesses all that he longs for. Rea Lest stars as Liina, and Jörgen Liik as Hans, with a full cast including Arvo Kukumägi, Katariina Unt, Taavi Eelmaa, Heino Kalm, Meelis Rämmeld, and Dieter Laser. This film won Best Cinematography at Tribeca last year, and stopped by a bunch of other festivals. It certainly looks great, also seems weird and twisted and dark as hell. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Rainer Sarnet's November,...

There are horror movies that will give you nightmares, and cause you to fear showers and shallow waters for decades. There are some that get deep under your skin – often times because they've literally flayed or burrowed under their characters' skins – and others that will make you see everyday items (a bowl of pea soup, a hockey mask, a videotape) in a horrifying new light. And then there are the ones that push so many social-taboo envelopes, strike so many collective raw nerves and tweak so many communal gag reflexes that they are a cut,...

Director Tom Six made a name for himself with 2011's bizarre cult classic The Human Centipede, which he followed up with 2012's The Human Centipede 2 and last year's The Human Centipede 3. The films weren't exactly box office hits, with all three grossing less than $350,000 combined at the domestic box office. But they certainly garnered their fair share of controversy, with a story following a bizarre doctor (Dieter Laser) and his disgusting, yet, supposedly "100% medically accurate" experiments. The second movie, The Human Centipede 2, is making headlines once again, four years after its release, as students in a Tennessee high school were forced to watch the movie in class.

While no details were given as to why the unnamed teacher made students watch this grotesque movie, superintendent Verna Ruffin confirmed to The Jackson Sun, via USA Today, that the film was shown to students at Jackson Central-Merry High School. An unnamed parent...

With news breaking that both Tony Todd and Dieter Laser have joined the cast of upcoming cult oddity Sky Sharks - check the link below to witness the mayhem that ensues when Nazi zombies take to the skies on jet powered undead sharks - Twitch has gotten the first look at a new character poster featuring another new addition to the cast in veteran German performer Detlef Bothe. Check it out below!...

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After celebrating his 61st birthday over the weekend the ever eternal Candyman himself, Tony Todd, is taking flight much like the bees living in his chest cavity to occupy airspace dominated by Sky Sharks. Cast as General General Frost, Todd’s role adds to the roster of cult names involved in the project including The Human Centipede’s Dieter Laser. […]...

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It happens all the time. The casting of movies is such a perilous art, that actors and actresses sign up for roles, and then they're chopped and changed. Rarely does it end up anywhere near a courtroom.

Yet sometimes it does. Here are nine varied instances where someone leaving a project led to legalities ensuing...

1. Kim Basinger - Boxing Helena

I may as well start with one of the most infamous cases of an actress dropping out of a film to which they'd apparently agreed.

Director Jennifer Lynch originally had Madonna pegged to take the lead in her debut feature, Boxing Helena. The story of a woman who has her limbs removed and is kept in a box (it's as charming as it sounds), the role was then offered to Kim Basinger when Madonna passed.

On October 27th, Scream Factory will inject extreme body horror into the Halloween season with their Blu-ray release of The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence, and we've been provided with three copies to give away to Daily Dead readers.

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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence.

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Human Centipede Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on November 1st. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.

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Blu-ray set details: "Directed by Tom Six and starring Eric Roberts, Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Laurence R Harvey, and Maddi Black, the...

Extreme body horror will haunt viewers this Halloween season, as Scream Factory has teamed up with IFC Midnight to release The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence Blu-ray set on October 27th, and we have trailers from the collection's three films.

Blu-ray set details: "Directed by Tom Six and starring Eric Roberts, Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Laurence R Harvey, and Maddi Black, the scandalous The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence features the unrated director’s cuts of all three films and comes loaded with bonus features, including new featurettes The Ladies of the Human Centipedes and The Making of The Human Centipede 3; new audio commentary with director Tom Six, the new color version of The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), interviews with Tom Six, casting tapes, deleted scenes, an alternate ending, behind the scenes footage and set tours, foley sessions, theatrical trailers, and more! Fans of this brazen trilogy...

Extreme body horror will haunt this Halloween season, as Scream Factory has teamed up with IFC Midnight to release The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence Blu-ray on October 27th. In addition to containing all three Human Centipede films, the collection also includes new bonus features.

Press Release: Upon its release, The Human Centipede became a cultural sensation. On October 27th, 2015, get ready to experience the “complete sequence” of the infamous Human Centipede series with the release of The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence on Blu-ray from Scream Factory, in partnership with IFC Midnight. Directed by Tom Six and starring Eric Roberts, Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Laurence R Harvey, and Maddi Black, the scandalous The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence features the unrated director’s cuts of all three films and comes loaded with bonus features, including new featurettes The Ladies of the Human Centipedes and The...

This sick ‘satire’ on American culture draws to a welcome close

The final, smugly repugnant instalment in Tom Six’s scatological torture-porn trilogy boasts jokes (both verbal and visual) about female circumcision, sexual assault and Crohn’s disease, and features a fantasy sequence of punctured-kidney rape.

Dieter Laser and Laurence R Harvey return (in different roles) as governor and accountant of a Guantánamo-style institution where the first prison centipede is under way. The get-out-of-jail-free card played by Dutch writer/director Tom Six (who cameos as himself in old-hat postmodern style) is that this is a satire of grotesque American culture, but watching it is as appealing as being force-fed warm diarrhoea. “These films risk causing harm,” shouts one inmate. “They should be banned!” No, they should just be ignored.

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Warning: This article contains detail on graphic violence, gore and sexual abuse that some readers may wish to avoid.

The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) is in UK cinemas now, serving up more stomach-churning depravity, questionable morality and serious over-acting.

In outing number three, Centipede veteran Dieter Laser plays a cowboy prison warden under fire thanks to a heatwave that's sending inmates into a riotous fury. With cost cutting and prison efficiency a priority, the warden's accountant Dwight (star of Centipede 2 Laurence R Harvey) suggests sewing the inmates all together as a solution. From there... well, things naturally get grim.

We braved all of Final Sequence's 103 minutes to bring you a timeline of gruesomeness. And Eric Roberts. Naturally, this contains spoilers and is very Nsfw.

3 minutes - Sexual Assault

Cowboy hat-wearing prison warden Bill Boss (Dieter Laser) decides to molest his assistant Daisy (former porn star Bree Olson) after she admits...

Dieter Laser’s megalomaniac prison boss holds this offensive film together – and he’s even a bit funny

What can only be called The Human Centipede franchise just got even more gross for its third iteration and last hurrah. Queasy though it is to admit it, there is something compelling about its extreme horror. This is because of the screaming performance of Tom Six’s star performer Dieter Laser, who has taken it to the next level. He is now even more bizarre: a colossally over-the-top turn, weirdly like Zero Mostel in The Producers, as directed by Sam Fuller.

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As the third and final part of the grotesque franchise is released, its creator talks about how appalled his lead actor was by the script, the need to shock and why his mother loves his films

Related: Film review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

For a brief time last year, it looked as if a third Human Centipede film didn’t have legs. Dieter Laser, who starred in the first of the unashamedly grotesque franchise and was due to return for the third, was so appalled by the script that he tried to back out. “Suddenly, Dieter got scared,” says Tom Six, author of that script and writer/director of all three films. “Very scared about doing all those horrible things, and got worried about what people would say all over the world. He said: ‘You’ll have to change horses, I’m out.’”

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As the third and final part of the grotesque franchise is released, its creator talks about how appalled his lead actor was by the script, the need to shock and why his mother loves his films

Related: Film review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

For a brief time last year, it looked as if a third Human Centipede film didn’t have legs. Dieter Laser, who starred in the first of the unashamedly grotesque franchise and was due to return for the third, was so appalled by the script that he tried to back out. “Suddenly, Dieter got scared,” says Tom Six, author of that script and writer/director of all three films. “Very scared about doing all those horrible things, and got worried about what people would say all over the world. He said: ‘You’ll have to change horses, I’m out.’”

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The stomach-churning trailer for The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) has been unveiled.

The final film in Tom Six's controversial horror series will be "100% politically incorrect", according to the director.

Final Sequence will see a prison warden (Dieter Laser) teaming up with his right hand man (Laurence R Harvey) to create a gruesome 500-person centipede to solve America's prison system.

Six has confirmed the plot will involve new characters and will be set in a big state prison in America.

Six has previously revealed that he has received death threats for making the Human Centipede films, with some going as far as describing him as a "threat to humanity".

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) will be released in select cinemas on July 10, ahead of a DVD and VOD release on July 20.

Four New The Human Centipede 3 Movie Posters Have Been Released. Tom Six‘s The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) stars Bree Olson, Eric Roberts, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, and Dieter Laser. The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)‘s plot synopsis: “Taking inspiration from The Human Centipede films, the warden of a notorious and troubled prison looks to create a 500-person human centipede as […]...

Writer/Director: Tom Six. Cast: Dieter Laser, Lawrence R Harvey, Bree Olson, Tom Six and Eric Roberts. From the bowels of a hot Texas prison comes the third and final instalment of Tom Six's infamous Human Centipede trilogy, The Human Centipede 3: (Final Sequence). If you are a fan of the first two Centipede films, you'll fall mouth-to-ass with this one. If you're not a fan of the first two, or even if you haven't seen them, this film is still digestible. That's the beauty of Six's trilogy—three solid films that work well stitched together, but can also be pulled apart and appreciated on their own. The Final Sequence is not for the squeamish, but it is also not as dark as the first two. Although the film easily tips the gore scale, this one is even more of a black comedy than the previous. If you’re into completely disgusting,...

Monster Pictures has announced that it will release The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), the third and presumably last chapter in director Tom Six's controversial bad-taste trilogy in the UK this July. The film will open in selected cinemas on 10 July, before hitting Blu-ray, DVD and VOD a few days later on 13 July.The third instalment sees the return of Dieter Laser, star of the original cult classic, as well as part 2's despicable protagonist Laurence R Harvey, although both actors take on new roles in this film. They are joined by Eric Roberts as they attempt to engineer a 500-man human centipede as a way of maintaining order in a Deep South Us penitentiary, with predictably disgusting and darkly humorous results."Nasty, revolting, and...

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Stars: Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey, Bree Olsen, Eric Roberts, Robert Lasardo, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Clayton Rohner, Jay Tavare, Michael Flores, Carlos Ramirez, James Darnell, Akihiro Kitamura, Chris Clanton | Written and Directed by Tom Six

The wait is finally over ladies and gentlemen! One of this years most anticipated horror films is finally here! Yep, Tom Six (I Love Dries) has finally unleashed The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence upon the world. When I watched parts 1 & 2 upon initial release, I was rather underwhelmed, but upon revisiting the films prior to the third and final chapter in the trilogy, I found myself enjoying the films for what they are. I won’t go in to detail because if you’re reading this review, you have already seen them. Needless to say, the films were brutal with an original concept that made Dieter Laser (John Gleuckstadt) amd Laurence R. Harvey (The Editor) household names and horror icons.

I have a terrible suspicion that filmmaker Tom Six would be delighted to learn that someone in the real world had tried to create a human centipede. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): despise this series

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

I’m not sure I’ve ever endured such ludicrous evidence of a filmmaker more in love with himself and his work than Dutch writer and director Tom Six displays in The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence). This is now the second film he has made praising the expression of his own demented imagination in The Human Centipede (First Sequence) as something so astonishing and inventive as to be the stuff that drives madmen to imitate it. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) — which I have seen but not reviewed, it is so revolting and utterly without the smallest iota...

There’re few things more exciting than attending your first movie premiere, especially when it’s a movie you have been greatly anticipating. After seeing and immediately becoming a fan of both of Tom Six’s previous Centipede movies, I was more than curious to see what was coming next. Unfortunately I walked out of the theater thoroughly disappointed.

Long plot summary short, the film opens at George W. Bush prison, where slowly-losing-his-mind prison warden Bill Boss (Dieter Laser) and his accountant, Dwight Butler (Laurence R. Harvey), are trying to not only quell the multitude of prison riots and violence, but also find a way to stop the prison system from hemorrhaging money. Both these factors have convinced Governor Hughes (Eric Roberts) to fire them, but he gives the duo two weeks to turn things around. Eventually, Butler pleads with Boss to consider his idea to introduce the human centipede into the prison system.

No. Nope. Uh-uh. In case you were expecting director Tom Six’s sicko human-anus-to-mouth-stitching horror saga to suddenly become better, or at least tolerable, by its third installment, let me just shatter your dreams right now. Human Centipede 3 is the worst of the lot. Is that even possible? Apparently, it is. Maybe it’s because it’s also the most ambitious — ambitious in a way that undermines the earlier films’ peculiarly chilly and disquieting world view, their … wait, integrity can’t possibly be the word I’m looking for, can it? Let me put it this way: I suspect that even those who consider themselves fans of the Human Centipede franchise will feel betrayed by this outing.This time, the setting is a prison, run by a wide-eyed, bellowing cartoon-demon of a warden named Bill Boss (played by Dieter Laser, who played the demented visionary Doctor Heiter in the first...

100% Politically incorrect. 100% Medically accurate, so claims Tom Six. 100% complete garbage. Harsh? Not really.

I am not going to step onto a soap box and preach to you about how some films have gone too far. Please, go further. I am not going to rant about how certain things should never be portrayed on film. Please, push the envelope and break boundaries. I will not call for censorship and restraint in exercising free speech. Please, by all means, shock and disgust us till the cows come home. However, what I will do, is to persistently and relentlessly call things as I see them.

This movie is garbage. Not because its vulgar or offensive, but because its a failure. I have seen the entire trilogy now, and while in all honesty I can admit that I am no big fan of the franchise as a whole, my disdain reaches its monumental peak...

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) is an empty, self-gratifying, wannabe exploitation flick that’s crafted by a monkey who started by flinging poo at a wall with artistic intent – yes, The Human Centipede (First Sequence) has value – yet has now devolved into a smut-peddling attention whore who keeps flinging poo just to stay relevant. I wish I could stop my review of Tom Six’s worst movie to date right there, but I cannot – because that would be doing all of you a disservice (and because I have a minimum wordcount requirement). Six’s franchise has turned from a cheeky attempt to push unimaginable boundaries into a “for shocks only” nightmare that prays college film students will dare one another to sit through one last ass-to-mouth ensemble, cringing with every life-giving passage of waste. Unfortunately, Six’s third film is a dare with no winners, whether or not you...

A descent into a dank, rank hole of meta depravity (and doo-doo), The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) follows in its 2011 predecessor's footsteps by turning inward on itself. Inspired by the first two movies, an American prison warden and his trusty sidekick (Dieter Laser and Laurence R. Harvey, the respective stars of those earlier efforts) decide that the best way to cope with out-of-control operating costs is to fashion an enormous ass-to-mouth human centipede out of inmates. Before getting to that hideousness, however, the film first sees fit to subject its audience to Laser eating fried clitorises (imported from Africa!), castrating a prisoner and consuming his testicles, forcing his secretary (Bree Olson) to swallow after imposed oral sex, and spitting an...

There is one genuinely entertaining moment in the conclusion to Tom Six’s ass-to-magnum opus, The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence). Following a particularly nasty encounter with an inmate, penitentiary warden Bill Boss (The Human Centipede’s Dieter Laser) proudly, arrogantly reiterates to the prisoner’s doctor, “I castrated him.” Without missing a beat, an exasperated Dr. Jones…

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IFC Midnight just released the full trailer for Tom Six's "The Human Centipede 3 : Final Sequence". This third film "100 percent politically incorrect" assembles a 500-person centipede ! The May 22nd release stars Eric Roberts, Bree Olson, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Robert Lasardo, Tom Six, Clayton Rohner, Laurence R Harvey, Michael Flores and of course Dieter Laser.Bully prison warden Bill Boss (Dieter Laser), leading a big state prison in the Us of A, has a lot of problems; his prison statistically has the highest amount of prison riots, medical costs and staff turnover in the country. But foremost he is unable to get the respect he thinks he deserves from his inmates and the state Governor (Eric Roberts). He constantly fails in experimenting with different ideas for the ideal...

Director Tom Six doesn’t have to cast the net too far to find his fair share of skeptics, who denounce his horror franchise as tasteless and gratuitous. But to write off The Human Centipede series in such a way would undermine its satirical and, quite frankly, bonkers edge, and its a tone that Six will look to conclude with upcoming threequel, Human Centipede III (Final Sequence).

Retaining the 100% medically accurate claims from the original films, Final Sequence will see Tom Six play a director not unlike himself, who is approached by a twisted prison security guard setting out to create the longest human sequence to date. Such a feat would be carried out on the cell mates on death row, surgically attaching all 100 of them in what is surely a fate worse than death.

From the trailers released thus far, Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) looks to hone the...

Today we have a new trailer for "The Human Centipede - Part 3 (Final Sequence)," which is once again directed by Tom Six and stars Eric Roberts, Dieter Laser and Laurence Harvey. It's set to be released in theaters and on VOD on May 22nd. Check out the trailer below. Plot: Bully prison warden Bill Boss (Laser), leading a big state prison in the Us of A, has a lot of problems; his prison statistically has the highest amount of prison riots, medical costs and staff turnover in the country. But foremost he is unable to get the respect he thinks he deserves from his inmates and the state Governor (Roberts). He constantly fails in experimenting with different ideas for the ideal punishment to get the inmates in line, which drives him, together with the sizzling heat, completely insane. Under threats of termination by the Governor, his loyal right hand man...

There's little new that can be said about Tom Six's gross-out trilogy, particularly as its third and (supposedly) final chapter, The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), crawls onto VOD later this month. For better or for worse, however, the writer/director is not holding his cards close to his vest. The newest trailer for the third installment shows, if anything beyond violent mayhem, he's goes full-out medieval on his once "medically accurate" series. This new trailer, which showcases returning stars Laurence R. Harvey and a now-bald Dieter Laser, has our main character proudly announce he's "gonna bring back medieval torture practices," as he gears up to spawn a 500-person long human centipede from a line-up of convicted felons. They say it'll stop prison torture, and end violence inside the cells and ... yada, yada, yada. You get the idea. Along the way, Laser sticks his head in a bucket and screams inside it.

Tom Six's The Human Centipede is the cult horror franchise that just keeps giving. And giving. And giving. And with the third - and final - installment now nearing release the first trailer for the general madness has arrived.Eric Roberts, Bree Olson and Robert Lasardo join original mad doctor Dieter Laser, part two star Laurence Harvey and a whole lot of (not actual) prison inmates in this quest to assemble a centipede hundreds of people long.Yes, you already know if you're interested in this or not. And if you are then the trailer is below!...

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The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) horrific new trailer is here. Mind you, it’s probably not a good idea to watch this one at work.

Directed & Written by Tom Six, the movie stars Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey, Eric Roberts, & Bree Olson

Bully prison warden Bill Boss (The Human Centipede Part I’s Dieter Laser) has a lot of problems; prison riots, medical costs, staff turnover, but foremost he is unable to get the respect he thinks he deserves from his inmates and the state Governor (Eric Roberts). He constantly fails in experimenting with different ideas for the ideal punishment to get the inmates in line, which drives him completely insane.

Under threats of termination by the Governor, his loyal right hand man Dwight (The Human Centipede Part II’ s Laurence R Harvey) comes up with a brilliant idea. An idea based on the notorious Human Centipede movies, that will...

They may not be to everyone's taste but The Human Centipede franchise certainly seems to enjoy doing...whatever it is they're doing. Director Tom Six is set to unleash what looks to be the craziest installment yet with The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), and we've got a brand new trailer full of the customary grotesqueries for you check out. That Dieter Laser is one crazy dude; I'm not entirely convinced he's acting here. I don't...