knowing the premise, i watched this one as you would watch a car accident on the side of the road: with detached disgust, yet with a sense of curiosity. turns out its not a very interesting car wreck, but the film certainly is a wreck...the premise is this: a creepy german doctor wants to kidnap people and turn them into a freakish human experiment where he turns three of them into a centipede. i will leave out many of the details... it sounds horrific and devilishly twisted, right? well, turns out that the movie is actually quite tame, and very lame. when i heard about this idea my mind went wild with grotesque imaginings of where this film would go, and what i could come up with was much, much worse than what is actually on the screen. there is really nothing on the screen. any sort of gore or bloody imagry is completely passed over, instead what we get is a really generic horror movie that glosses over the horror part. the writing is terrible (wait, there was actually a writer of this movie?!?), the acting is pathetic, and the production value is non existent. as far as horror movies go, this one has an amazingly chilling concept, but the film literally does nothing at all with it. a major disappointment.
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