When I heard about this movie, it had the hype of a video nasty, the sort of film that gets banned in many countries. I don't know if this film ever was banned, but if it was, then they have seriously low tolerance for horror films.
The premise of this film is unique, I'll give it that, but it fails to deliver beyond that. Basically a mad, German scientist wants to create a 'centipede' from humans after trying it out with dogs. So he kidnaps a man and two women and stitches them arse to mouth, thus making his 'centipede' (dodecapede really).
This film had the potential to be a great body horror, but despite clearly wanting to be a gross-out horror, it's a little too clinical. The bodies were joined 'perfectly' by a skilled surgeon, which removed any chance of him creating a malformed 'creature'.
Things could have been much more gross and repulsive and would have made for a better film. Before I saw it, I was expecting a deranged man in his cabin in the woods, who creates an abomination of grossly fused human bodies. The choice to have a skilled surgeon working in a clean surgery in the basement of his remote house took a lot away from the film (although this way of doing it was more realistic as there's less chance of infection etc in a clean surgery).
As the two women spend their time surgically attached to an arse and the guy at the front only speaks Japanese (if I remember correctly) there's no room for character development. The sicko doctor is already as developed as he's going to get (I can't for the life of me remember if it's explained why he does what he does). The cop that tries to come to the rescue is generic and has no backstory at all.
This movie has a rather bleak ending (everyone dies), the cop and the doctor kill each other. The middle girl dies (can't remember why, possibly due to an infection), the guy at the front slits his throat when he realises there's no escape, and the poor girl at the back is left to die of starvation because she can't free herself of the other two.
I would not recommend this film to anyone really (if you really want to watch it to find out how bad it is, then be my guest). There are far better horror films out there (especially if you want a gross out horror)
