| abstract | - Dr. Josef Heiter, or commonly and simply referred to as Dr. Heiter, is the main antagonist of the 2009 horror film The Human Centipede . Dr. Heiter is arguably one of the most disturbing and perverted characters in cinema, even by horror standards - subjecting his victims to the unthinkable in order to pursue his insane scientific vision. The character of Dr. Heiter is based off of the infamous real-life Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Considering the reputation of the film Heiter's fictional acts are still amazingly less evil than the real experiments of Dr. Mengele. Once a renowned surgeon in the medical community, "the leading surgeon in separating Siamese twins", Dr. Heiter had become utterly obsessed with taking his skills and bringing them to the next level by putting bodies together to function as one unit rather than separating conjoined bodies into separate units. His first successful experiment began by surgically connecting his three adult Rottweiler dogs, unfortunately this pet died. But his vision only grew more bold and he developed a plan to create a human "Siamese triplet", a form to which he gave the common name "Human Centipede". In order to begin his experiment he kidnapped travelers matching blood types until he found a match. He then surgically joins them, mouth to anus, forming a perverse "centipede" where each human is a segment of the whole unit. This causes unimaginable suffering to those involved, but science knows no evil and Dr. Heiter considers this creation to be nothing more than a new pet to stay loyally by his side. Heiter is portrayed by well known European actor Dieter Laser After much deliberation Laser would later continue working with director Tom Six to play a completely different, yet still monstrous, character Bill Boss in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).
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