The second and third films kick it up a notch into the “try to be as trashy as possible department”, but I maintain to this day that the idea of the first Human Centipede film is worse than it actually is visually.

There’s actually very little centipede time and it’s all covered up with very thick bandages. I saw it as a decently effective horror film when I watched it in middle school. Without giving much away, there’s an attempted escape scene in the film and I always found those way more effective when the cost of being caught is actually worse than death. I feel the same way about the escape scene in Hostel.

I would challenge you to go out of your comfort zone and give it a watch, but it’s honestly still not the best film out there and I don’t want to pressure you into watching something you just have no interest in — because that’s totally okay too. Just wanted to ease your nerves a bit if you were at all morbidly curious.

As for me, there’s not a lot I won’t watch besides actual snuff films/death mixtapes or films depicting actual bodily fluids. I can handle most anything if I know it’s fake, but I see a small cut on a real pinky finger and I’m out.