IFC Acquires Disturbing Human Centipede Movie

IFC has picked up the rights to the foreign horror flick Human Centipede which is easily one of the more grotesque and off the wall films I have come across in quite some time. They will release it to their Video on Demand customers in 2010. You can watch a clip from the film here but be warned its not for kids.. this is a very disturbing horror film. You were warned.

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE is an unconventional – and medically accurate -- biological horror film that enthusiastically explores territory that few filmmakers dare to tread.  When two pretty American girls go on a road trip in Europe, they end up alone at night in Germany with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa, and awake the next day to find themselves trapped in a terrifying makeshift basement hospital.   Their captor is the internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter with a demented vision for mankind's future existence. Dr. Heiter wants to remove human beings' kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain.  But when his victims give him more trouble than he expects – including unwanted attention from the authorities - Dr. Heiter is forced to decide whether to abandon his latest project, or protect it from the outside world – with their and his very lives, if necessary.   

Jonathan Sehring, President of IFC Entertainment said, "I can't remember when I have been as excited and had as much fun being horrified and repulsed while watching a movie.  Echoing back to the early works of David Cronenberg, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE is a landmark work in the horror genre, taking the "mad doctor" conceit and perversely twisting it into a mind-boggling roller coaster ride.  Everyone at IFC is excited to introduce such a unique talent as Tom Six to American audiences and it's a perfect film for our theatrical and VOD platforms."