Get ready for a gross-out in the horror movie The Human Centipede. Directed by Dutch filmmaker Tom Six, Centipede starts with a familiar setup. Two young women have car trouble on a lonely road in the middle of nowhere in the dead of night. They walk to a remote house and are taken in by a creepy weirdo. That’s pretty standard stuff. From there, Centipede goes into uncharted territory. The girls wake up trapped in the basement along with another captive. To their horror (and ours), they learn that the creepy guy is a former surgeon who spent most of his career separating conjoined twins. Now he’s interested in doing the opposite – he wants to join individuals to one another. His plan to make a human centipede is to take one girl, fuse another girl’s mouth to the first girl’s anus and fuse the third captive’s mouth to the second girl’s anus, then run one long piece of intestine through all three (that is just so messed up). 11:55 p.m. Friday and Saturday. River Oaks Theatre, 2009 West Gray. For information, call 713-866-8881 or visit www.landmarktheatres.com. $6.50 to $9.50.
Fri., May 7, 11:55 p.m.; Sat., May 8, 11:55 p.m., 2010
This article appears in May 6-12, 2010.