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  • I get that the big bad is nuts in the head, but really, if his plan is actually instrumentality as opposed to "I need a clever conversation piece and a novelty coffee table just ain't gonna cut it," you'd think Sign No. 1 that turning mankind into an ATM machine wasn't gonna pan out was that its biology only worked when supplemented with life-support machines. I know, Excuse Plot and all, but damn, Mad Scientist Guy, you could've done much more awesomely horrible things than slake your desire for coprophagiaphilia.
    • He seems to be in just For Science! and The Evulz.
    • I'm guessing he's based off of the real life Doctor Mengele who also studied twins, and was known for doing experiments like sewing two people together and other experiments that were more or less done so that he could "See what happens"
      • I'm going to agree with that but also the science part. He's whacked but his passion here seems for science. He's no doubt spent years upon years detaching twins, so his next step is to unite people and make a pet. It's a weird jump for anyone sane, but not exactly that out there if someone was that science brilliant and that obsessed with twins as we are lead to believe from what little characterization we see from him and his home.
      • No, the director Tom Six was just chilling with his friends and then they started talking about what they would do to whoever raped their daugthers, he said he would do what the film shows, thought it was brilliant idea, and decided to make a film about it.
  • How does the middle and back stay hydrated? And wouldn't it have made more sense for Jenny to die of dehydration than blood poisoning?
    • In the first movie they were hooked up to an IV for part of it... The second movie they more than likely did die of dehydration.
  • As noted on the main page, how in God's name are they going to justify making another centipede in the sequel? The doctor has a protege? The military decides there's some merit to researching this?
    • Well, we don't physically see Middle Piece (forgot her actual name) die on screen, which in horror movie language means she'll survive in the sequel, so my guess is that either she or whoever rescues her will carry on Heiter's idea.
      • Hmyea... given what was done to her, though, I might say that, if she managed to survive, she's one wreck of a person and not likely to carry on with that.
    • The second film wound up being about a Loony Fan of the first film who got off to the idea of a human centipede and wanted to create one himself. The third, meanwhile, was about a human centipede being used as punishment by a sadistic prison warden.
  • What was up with the second cop not saying or really doing anything? I couldn't help but think that was really weird to have that character here and not have him actually do anything. Even assuming it's an investor who was promised an appearance or something, you'd think they'd have him say at least one line.
    • He was The Voiceless. Both cops are played by real actors. The director wanted the second detective to be quiet and have piercing eyes and be unnerving.
  • How was the girl that ended up in the middle not able to carry her friend in the attempted escape? The friend weighed atmost 140 pounds. She should have been able to carry her friend, not have to struggle just to barely be able to drag her. The effort put into the dragging also brings up another thing. How were her feet not cut when she was walking on the glass, or her friend's legs not cut when being drug through the glass?
    • For the first point, I'm pretty sure unconscious people are quite heavy and she wasn't very experienced with carrying people or how to carry them. Second point, no idea.
      • Second point answer: actually, they were. If you remember (and if you don't, seriously, does it really bear a repeat watching?) her incessant, annoying and anything but stealthy whining got worse as she crossed the glass. Also, there is a barely noticeable trail of blood left in their wake as she drags the other girl. It's hard to see because of the angle of the shot and because it's raining, but it is there.
      • As someone that has tried to help up a partially conscious person (not drunk), it really is that difficult when the other person is unable to assist. Had she been thinking, she should have put her into a fireman's carry from the bed; though it is possible to do it from the ground as well.
  • Why was the woman at the end where ass bandages when she had no surgery performed there?
  • Why the hell did those two girls trust doctor Heiter and drank a glass of water from him? I know that they were pretty stupid but come on, it was just baffling that they trusted him.
  • Why is it that the people that only get a small dose of the drug start vomiting? The detective and the girl coughing and vomiting after a while, but the other girl simply passed out after having a full dose.
    • The cop vomited because he looked in the bedroom and saw the centipede and all the blood.
  • Maybe I'm not overly familiar with standard police procedure, but when the police leave to get the search warrant, stating that it will only take them fifteen to twenty minutes, why do they both leave? Wouldn't it make sense to have one stay behind and watch the doctor just to make sure he doesn't try to hide or destroy evidence?
    • Also, why wouldn't they have backup when they returned? They suspect Heiter of holding three people hostage, and it's pretty obvious the hypodermic concealed in the towel was meant for one of them, yet they come back alone.
    • From a more non-conformist critique if all they had was suspicions both probably should have left for the warrant. Heiter's action with the needle though really should have been a red flag enough to risk having one officer stay there. As far as back up, they mostly just believed him to be a solo actor kidnapping several people, two cops in theory should be enough to take down one solo actor and call ambulances if they find kidnapping victims. They had no idea at the time of course his victims were surgically sewn together, they probably just thought they were tied up in the basement or something.
    • Although one last point to stress here: While the above is probably the best rational explanation on what cops should have done here, that is not to say that every cop fictional or real is actually component at their job any more than everyone else is. It sucks for the centipede victims that they didn't get grade a supercops. But again how many real life people actually do get them when they are in trouble?
  • How are they going to do a sequel if Heiter is dead? Please don't tell us there's another person out there with the same idea...
    • By going the meta route: In Human Centipede II, a guy decides to create a centipede after watching the first movie.
    • Since each body is still being nourished by its own digestive tract, and the first guy is the only one not eating another person's shit, won't the other victim-segments end up dying of malnutrition?
      • They'd die even quicker from dehydration since they have no mouths to drink water with.
      • At least in the first movie the members of the centipede are hooked up to an IV drip while in their cage overnight.
    • The excuse for having a human centipede in any of these movies will pretty much always just be "Man has mental illness, and wants to sew people ass to mouth."
  • The middle and back actors really had to play large parts of the film with their mouth at someone else's butt, right?
    • Oh, I'm sure they were wearing underpants and some padding over their asses. Altough shooting in a hot studio with your nose right in someone's sweating butt can't have been fun...
    • Accordint to The Other Wiki they were wearing an especial underwear with a prostetic that allow the actor to bite some sort of rubber object giving the impression that they were joint anus-to-mouth, but not really near the anus.
  • Why did the police not call for backup immediately, especially after Seeing the Human Centipede in Heiter's Bedroom?
    • Only one of them, Kranz, found the Centipede. Then he heard the gunshot and went to find Voller. By that time, Voller was dead, and Kranz himself was quickly dispatched by Heiter. There was no time to call for backup.
  • Why was the truck driver the only person Heiter gagged? With all the shouting Lindsay, Jenny and Katsuro do during his lecture you'd think he'd wanna keep them quiet, too.
    • Just how did Heiter get the Human Centipede up and the down the stairs through out the whole movie? And why were the three surprised to see the stairs during their escape and have to figure out how they were going to walk up them?
    • It's not going to be easy, just coordinating everyone when they can't communicate and are all stuck together like this.
    • He has a secret elevator with a key so only he can use it?
  • Why is Lindsay treated like a corpse in waiting? She's not in a good spot, true, but the police arrived in a vehicle that's going to be noticed missing in hours, tops, and that's before considering how she may be able to cut her way free.
    • The film ends at that point for dramatic reasons. While I doubt she would have survived an attempt to cut herself free, there's very little chance otherwise that the police wouldn't have shown up in time to save her life. That isn't nearly as bleak an ending, though.
      • Exactly. She can and will be saved. It's just that the movie ended before that happened because Tom Six is "MISTER EDGY"!
  • Why would anyone with any sort of degree in science/biology think that a human would be able to survive eating another human's waste products? You know, the stuff they can't digest properly? Just be honest and say that you're doing it because you have screwed-up fetishes, don't try to come up with stupid scientific explanations to "justify" your screwed-upness.
    • Strictly speaking, not everything in a stool is waste that can't be digested. In the same way that urine contains SOME water, a stool contains SOME digestible matter. If the centipede was two people, person B could survive for a surprising amount of time. Possibly months. In a three person centipede, once the stool has gone through two people, though, person C would be getting nothing of nutritional value and would last maybe a couple of weeks, tops. In both cases, though, the people behind the "head" would be incredibly sickly and malnourished for the period they did survive, likely unable to get to their knees, let alone crawl around.
    • I think this might be classified as the other end of the screwed up spectrum. The idea of the whole series existence is as you say from the director's own mind. But in the film you are commenting on, the doctor does hook them up to IVs each night. So by that he seems to at least know that he can't expect them to live on it alone.
    • Also the way the first film portrays the doctor seems to put emphasis his fascination that turned to sick obsession came from siamese twins. Two beings that have to share some part of the body. In his mad science ravings i guess he chose digestive track so they could have something edible? Even though given that the film does have him use IVs (even if they are that prominently featured) so clearly he did use some thinking about how to make it live longer.
    • Heiter is based off of the real-world Dr. Josef Mengele, along with other Nazi scientists and medical researchers whose "experiments" weren't any better. Without going into too much detail, they were often just the result of a double-dose of sadism and curiosity, with the outcome already being both obvious and inevitable. He clearly knows that his Centipede won't survive on its own, which is why he provides an IV drip for nutrition and to prevent dehydration. He's just on a sadistic power trip and wants to see exactly what happens to the three subjects, along with how long he can keep them alive.
  • Why doesn't the first guy attack the doctor? He seems young and strong, and the doctor is an aging nerd. Even with his anus attached to someone's mouth, he should have been able to grab the doctor, yank his feet out from under him, wrestle him and strangle him. At the very least, he should have tried.
    • I'm honestly more curious why the first thing Katsuro did when getting the scalpel wasn't handing it down the line so they could cut themselves free from one another. They wouldn't be able to stand due to the knee procedure, but it'd still have been easier for them to get up the stairs.
  • How in the hell did Martin, the Villain Protagonist of the second movie, manage to get a job as a security guard? His psychiatrist outright calls him mentally challenged, he's in terrible shape, clearly has very poor eyesight judging from those thick glasses of his and is incontinent. Also, how in the hell did he get a gun in the UK? It's possible to legally own some firearms there, but not a handgun.
    • Just because something is ILLEGAL, doesn't mean it can't be done. If you really wanted to get hold of a handgun in the UK, you could do so relatively easily. People just generally don't seek them out because A: They have no use or desire for one, and B: The consequences if you are caught attempting to purchase or in possession of one are severe to say the least.
  • Why do the other parts get fed by eating feces, rather than connecting the intestines?
    • Because then they wouldn't be eating feces, obviously.
    • For the record is that surgery plausible? Jokes about medically accurate aside, i'm just curious if someone could legit try to make that work or not?

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