I first started hearing rumblings about The Human Centipede coming out of various genre festivals sometime last year, and all of the comments seemed to imply the same thing: this is one of the most demented and disturbing horror films to come around in a long while. I had been a bit apprehensive about digging deeper to find out more about this flick, but now that the first official trailer has arrived online, I couldn’t resist. Be warned… if you’ve got a weak stomach, even a description of the plot might be too much for you. If that is the case, stop reading now!

The set up seems similar to movies like Hostel in that it follows two girls who are traveling through Europe. One night in Germany, their car breaks down during a storm in the middle of nowhere, and they seek refuge in a nearby villa. Little do they know, the man who took them in is a retired surgeon who has a unique fantasy: to construct the world’s first human caterpillar by taking captives and surgically connecting them mouth-to-anus! Apparently this is the first in a trilogy from Dutch artist and filmmaker Tom Six (the full title is The Human Centipede: First Sequence), and IFC will release it via VOD on April 28th, and in select theatres on April 30th. Will you brave such a sick and twisted proposition? Check out the trailer after the jump, and if you think you can handle it, watch a few more clips here.