: This work examines why audiences engage with "abhorrent" cinema and how such films are categorized as "torture porn".
The film begins with two American tourists, Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), who are traveling through Germany. They are kidnapped by a former professor, Heiter (Dieter Laser), who has a fascination with creating a human centipede. Heiter's plan is to surgically connect the mouths of his victims, creating a single digestive system. the+human+centipede