History YMMV / TheHumanCentipede

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: [[http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv324/immortalpictures/humancentipede.jpg Kids love it!]]

* CrowningMomentofAwesome: Dr. Heiter getting shot in the head by a cop.

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* RecycledInSpace: The first film is more or less a total ripoff of ''Film/{{Hostel}}: Part II''.

* NauseaFuel: ''[[RunningGag You don't even need to see it]]''. Just READING about it is enough to put you off food.
** See also the outbreak of MoralGuardians on Wiki/TheOtherWiki when [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page/Archive_163#I.27m_sick the movie became]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Today%27s_featured_article/October_31,_2011 Today's Featured Article]] (on Halloween, to be more appropriate!).

** The fic by Creator/HansVonHozel, in which the centipede [[spoiler: enters the Crufts dog show. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And wins.]]]]

** The last 20 minutes or so of the sequel zigzags between this and {{Squick}}. It's really hard ''not'' to laugh when you see [[spoiler: all the victims sewn together because you know this is ridiculous.]] But at the same time, it's really hard ''not'' to gag [[spoiler: when they all shit in each other's mouths]]. But then Martin pukes afterwards, and the next thing you know, you're laughing again. But then [[spoiler: the pregnant woman turns out to be NotQuiteDead, gives birth in a car, and ''crushes her baby's head underneath the gas pedal.'']] Start gagging again. ''[[RunningGag But THEN]]'' [[spoiler: Yennie hits Martin in the balls, and shoves a centipede up his ass while he pathetically whines]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Start]] [[RefugeInAudacity laughing]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny again]].

** Yes. There is squick here. Would you like [[SchmuckBait details?]] Oh Lord, where to begin... oh, I know! How about the part where Lindsay [[spoiler:is forced to eat Katsuro's poo?]]

** You know what's also NightmareRetardant? Knowing that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-JlevnccDk&feature=related Mickey Mouse]] [[OlderThanTheyThink did it before]].

* RecycledInSpace: The first film is more or less a total ripoff of ''Film/HostelPartII''.

** See also the outbreak of MoralGuardians on TheOtherWiki when [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page/Archive_163#I.27m_sick the movie became]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Today%27s_featured_article/October_31,_2011 Today's Featured Article]] (on Halloween, to be more appropriate!).

* [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crosses The Line]] '''''[[UpToEleven TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES!]]'''''

** You know what's also NightmareRetardant? Knowing that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-JlevnccDk&feature=related Mickey Mouse]] [[OlderThanYouThink did it before]].

* CrossesTheLineTwice: '''''[[UpToEleven TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES!]]'''''

* NightmareRetardant: Although the premise really is NightmareFuel, the absolutely [[{{Narm}} narmful]] acting, the efforts made to make fun of the film, and the mere existence of a ''ridiculously'' random [[FanFic/TheHuemnCeniped2TheHumenMilipede fanfic]] make it nearly impossible to take it seriously anymore. Perhaps it really ''is'' scarier if [[OverlyLongGag you don't see the movie]].

** You know what's also NightmareRetardant? Knowing that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-JlevnccDk&feature=related Mickey Mouse]] did it before.

* [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crosses The Line]] '''''[[UpToEleven TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES!]]'''''

* [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crosses The Line]] '''[[UpToEleven TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES]]!'''

* CrossesTheLineTwice: '''[[UpToEleven TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES]]!'''

* CompleteMonster: All three bad guys (who in the sequels are also VillainProtagonist), and each [[WorseThanTheLast SerialEscalation]]. Dr. Heiter created the idea of a human centipede. Martin is a mentally challenged pervert who decides to kidnap people to make his own centipede, who he ''staples together'' and injects with laxatives. And Bill Boss is an ireedemable sociopath who takes a casual approach to violence and cannibalism.
* [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crosses The Line]] '''[[UpToEleven TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES]]!'''

* CompleteMonster: All three bad guys (who in the sequels are also VillainProtagonist). Dr. Heiter created the idea of a human centipede. Martin is a mentally challenged pervert who decides to kidnap people to make his own centipede, who he ''staples together'' and injects with laxatives. And Bill Boss is an ireedemable sociopath who takes a casual approach to violence and cannibalism.

** The Centipede in general has been parodied almost to this point. A common game on the internet after the film came out was to decide who should be in a real-life version of the Centipede, and what positions they should be in. Centipedes made from [[TheScrappy hated celebrities]] (Music/JustinBieber, Creator/ParisHilton, various DisneyChannel stars) are among the most commonly proposed.

** The last 20 minutes or so of the sequel zigzags between this and {{Squick}}. It's really hard ''not'' to laugh when you see [[spoiler: all the victims sewn together because you know this physically ''can't'' happen]]. But at the same time, it's really hard ''not'' to gag [[spoiler: when they all shit in each other's mouths]]. But then Martin pukes afterwards, and the next thing you know, you're laughing again. But then [[spoiler: the pregnant woman turns out to be NotQuiteDead, gives birth in a car, and ''crushes her baby's head underneath the gas pedal.'']] Start gagging again. ''[[RunningGag But THEN]]'' [[spoiler: Yennie hits Martin in the balls, and shoves a centipede up his ass while he pathetically whines]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Start]] [[RefugeInAudacity laughing]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny again]].

* CompleteMonster: [[MadDoctor Dr.]] [[MeaningfulName Josef]] [[HerrDoctor Heiter]] was a leading authority on separating conjoined twins before deciding to try the "reverse" of this. To that effect, he kidnaps a truck driver and two American girls in order to use them as test subjects against their will for the "human centipede," which [[BodyHorror consists in joining the victims, mouth to anus]], causing unimaginable suffering. However, he kills the truck driver due to him not having the same matching DNA as the two girls, and then replaces him with a Japanese tourist. When one of the girls almost escapes, Heiter punishes her by making her the "middle" piece so [[AndIMustScream she's forced to feel the same pain twice]]. When two detectives come to Heiter's home to question him about the suspected disappearances, Heiter tries to drug them to add them to his centipede with one of the girls getting sick. When it doesn't work he simply tries to murder them. Heiter is just a perverted psychopath of a {{mad scientist}} willing to subjecting his victims to unthinkable horror in order to pursue his insane and selfish goals.

** Let BeavisAndButthead [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5iFP5XegY kill any potential nightmare fuel]].

** Dieter Laser has an even bigger example with Bill Boss, VillainProtagonist of the third. A prison warden who sexually abuses his assistant, hurts the inmates, is fond of [[ImAHumanitarian snacking on human sexual organs]], and eventually decides to accept his accountant's idea of creating a centipede with the prisoners - making sure to have them suffer a lot through the experience.

* BlackComedy: The first and third films are this to some people.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Could be said with Dieter Laser and ''especially'' Laurence R. Harvey, who has been seen in videos to be a very nice guy, makes you wonder ''why'' he would want to work on something like this.

* NarmCharm