13 Horror Films Where The Evil Threat Triumphs

Dutch director Tom Six's "The Human Centipede (First Sequence)" follows Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), tourists from New York, who find themselves stuck with a flat tire while traversing Germany. Stuck out in the rain, their late-night trek leads them to the doorstep of Dr. Josef Heiter (Dieter Laser), who invites them inside. 

However, a couple of drugged beverages later, the girls find themselves strapped to hospital beds, informed of the fate that awaits them. Heiter, a once-leading surgeon in separating Siamese twins, looks to use the girls, as well as another kidnapped tourist named Katsuro, to create the titular human centipede by surgically joining them mouth to rear. Despite some escape attempts, the surgery goes ahead as planned and the centipede's construction is completed, much to Heiter's sick jubilation.

Sadly there is no happy ending for anyone as, during the climax, Katsuro kills himself, Jenny dies of sepsis and Heiter is shot by a police officer. The film ends on the image of a tearful Lindsay, stuck in the middle of two corpses, unlikely to escape her nightmarish situation. While the film has been analyzed as a metaphor for the horrors of Nazism, its sick sense of humor suggests that Tom Six was simply interested in seeing how far he could push the genre — and audiences.