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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Terrible, on a number of levels
Where to begin...
The plot of this movie is terribly overwrought, having been done any number of times. Two attractive young women are alone and get captured by some crazy guy. He does bad things to them. This movie takes it a step beyond that.
Many horror movies have the victims fight back against the bad guy, typically to no avail. In this movie, the bad guy is human, and thus is vulnerable to any of the hundreds of ways to kill him that the victims had at any given time.
The main character "Lindsay" escapes from her four point hospital restraints just before the evil doctor can sedate her. She does this in about ten seconds. Why she didn't think to do that during any of the previous eight hours or so is beyond me. It's not like she was in the hospital for a procedure. She knew that she was in a really bad situation, but doesn't bother trying to escape until the last minute? When she does free herself, she runs through the house bleeding a sobbing, despite having an IV stand right next to her. It would have been a far more interesting film if she had bludgeoned the doctor right then and there.
Later, after the three victims are connected, they finally fight back, with the Japanese man stabbing the doctor in the knee with a scalpel. He then takes a bite out of the doctor's neck. Because obviously, cutting his throat would have been way too smart.
I'm not saying that the 'heroes' should always win, but they should demonstrate at least the reasoning capacity of a chimp. For some reason though, this movie's victims apparently lack basic intelligence (even well before the really bad things start to happen), and also appear to lack any kind of 'fight' instinct.
For a complete list of things wrong with this film, see every other review.