Dr. Josef Heiter

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 story portrays him as a sociopathic, manipulative, unhinged, vindictive, calculating, ruthless, violent, wrathful and sadistic control freak who shows any lack of empathy towards seeing Human beings as livestock for his surgical trials that he enthralled in the pain and anguish on his victims for his personal pleasure. Josef is mostly shown as intimidating and mainly wears dark tinted shades, which symbolises his cold-demeanour and Jingoistic views on humanity, expressing hate towards their nature as a result.

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, it is unfortunate that this pet died. But his vision only grew bolder, 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.

Despite this however, Josef had shown to genuine care about his creations in a twisted way such as his Dreihund (three-legged Dog) Centipede of whom previously died prior to the events of the movie, Josef was moved by it in a way that he was seen in his car during the opening scene, looking at the picture and expressing sadness looking down on the Dog's death as he gently uses a wet wipe to preserve the image from residue landing on it (presumably his tears) while he tenderly clean the photo. Joseph even continues carrying the picture wherever he went, and even went far as to provide a tombstone for the trio of Dogs without any reason. When performing his twisted experiments on linking humans or any form of life by enforcing them to cooperate, Josef calls it "Beautiful" during the explanation of the centipede procedure, this is further shown when completing the Human Centipede, Josef shown tears of joy over the completion of the procedure, which mirrors the feeling what he felt over the previous death of his Dreihund as he happily allows his experiment to roam around the house until being provoked by his subjects.He was portrayed by the late Dieter Laser. After much deliberation, Laser would later work with writer and director Tom Six to star as the completely different, yet still monstrous, character Bill Boss in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

Lindsay and Jenny are two American tourists on a road trip in Germany. Their car breaks down in the night on their way to a night club, and they wander through the forest, upon which they find the house of Dr. Josef Heiter. Heiter begrudgingly allows them refuge at his house.

Heiter offers his guests water, which is drugged to knock them out. Jenny succumbs, though Lindsay spills her's on the table, to Heiter's frustration. As Lindsay tries to wake Jenny, Heiter resorts to injecting her with a syringe.

The women awake in a makeshift medical ward and witness Heiter informing a kidnapped truck driver that he is "not a match" then killing him via injection. When the women wake up a second time, Heiter has secured a new male captive, Japanese traveler Katsuro.

Heiter explains that he is a world-renowned expert at separating conjoined twins whose new medical goal is to create a single unit of more than one being that will live by sharing a single digestive system with one another. He describes an overhead presentation the essential basics of how he will surgically connect his three victims' mouth-to-anus.

Before beginning the operation, Lindsay fails in an attempt to escape. Heiter then explains to Lindsay that he had experimented with creating a 'three dog', also joined mouth-to-anus, which died shortly after surgery. Heiter tells Lindsay that the middle dog of his creation experienced the most pain, and as a punishment for her escape attempt, she will become the middle part of his centipede. Heiter performs the surgery on his victims, placing Lindsay in the middle, Katsuro at the front, and Jenny at the rear.Once the operation is complete the doctor begins to train his centipede as a pet. In spite of their resistance to him the unavoidable happens. He watches with great delight as Lindsay is forced to swallow Katsuro's excrement as this will begin the ultimate process of proving that the experiment has truly worked and also serves the purpose of letting them know he is ultimately in control of them regardless of whether or not they obey his commands. Heiter eventually becomes more and more irritated after being kept awake by the constant screaming, moaning, and crying of his victims along with the various other disobediences his "pet" commits. During a routine physical Heiter realizes that Jenny, the tail end, is suffering from sepsis, caused by an infection.

Interrupting the physical is the sound of the doorbell. Two detectives, Kranz and Voller, have come to visit the house to investigate the disappearance of tourists. After realizing the detectives are considering him as a prime suspect Heiter decides he will add them to his centipede as replacements for Jenny. Heiter fails in an attempt to drug the detectives, and they leave the house to obtain a search warrant. During the time Heiter is upstairs dealing with the detectives the victims escape from the ward.

When Heiter returns to attend to his pet, he finds it is missing. Katsuro attacks Heiter and the extreme injuries cause him to fall temporarily unconscious. Though they do manage to crawl up the stairs into the main house, their attempt to escape ultimately fails as they are trapped in a room which Heiter himself must crawl into due to his wounds from the attack.

Katsuro is poised to fight again but then instead breaks down confessing to the doctor, in Japanese, that he deserves his fate because he had treated his family poorly and lived an irresponsible life. Katsuro then commits suicide by slitting his own throat with a piece of glass.

The detectives return to the house and split to conduct separate searches. Heiter, realizing the detectives had returned, hides aside his indoor swimming pool. We see Voller is struggling with the effects of the earlier drugging as he searches. Kranz finds the makeshift ward and then hears a gunshot.

He begins to head towards the gunfire but discovers the morbid state of Heiter's victims before finding Voller dead in the swimming pool. Armed with Voller's pistol, Heiter shoots Kranz in the stomach, and Kranz responds by shooting Heiter in the head.

Kranz then falls in the pool from his wound and dies there. Back in the house, Jenny and Lindsay hold hands as Jenny dies from her infection. Lindsay is the lone survivor in the house, trapped tragically between her deceased fellow captives.Although Heiter does not appear physically in the second film, he is the influence and the role-model of The Human Centipede 2's main protagonist Martin Lomax.

Martin works in a parking-garage, and he is obsessed with the film The Human Centipede, so much so that he even made his own notebook full of info about it. While at his job, Martin is seen with his notebook, watching the Human Centipede film. Josef Heiter appears and starts to explain his plan of making the Human Centipede, and Martin starts writing and drawing in his notebook, Josef Heiter's presentation.

Later on, again Martin at his job, is seen again watching The Human Centipede, and Josef Heiter appears in the film, forcing the main segment of the Centipede, Katsuro to feed the two segments behind of him with his feces.Throughout the events of The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), prison warden Bill Boss embraces the idea of using the human centipede technique on his disrespectful and non-redeemable prisoners, with the urging of his right-hand man Dwight Butler. Once it is done a governor named Hughes is repulsed, however, ends up accepting the idea and seeing it as a genius. The film ends with Bill Boss celebrating by screaming into a megaphone on a guard tower, overlooking the centipede down below.

In an alternative scene available on the DVD, the events of the film turn out to be a dream of Josef Heiter, who wakes up in his bed in his home. Josef gets out of bed and contemplates the idea of a human centipede. The next day, Josef sits in his car looking at photos of 3Dog, just as the events of The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is about to begin.Three Rottweilers Before Heiter's Human Centipede creation, six months ago Heiter decided to start connecting people, instead of separating twins. His first victims were the three Rottweilers, all of which passed away and got burred by Heiter inside of his yard. Truck Driver Heiter's first human victim was a Truck Driver, which was defecating in the woods. The Truck Driver was obese, and Heiter's first idea was possibly to collect fatter victims, in order for them to live longer. The Truck Driver ends up being kidnapped by Heiter, and get placed inside of Heiter's makeshift medical ward. Once Heiter got his two new victims, he ends up killing the Truck Driver for not being a match. Lindsay & Jenny Lindsay & Jenny are the two main protagonists of the film. The two American female tourists were going to a party in Germany, until their car stopped working. They were stuck inside of the woods, during the rain. The two were trying to find help, and they found Heiter's house. Both of them knocked on his door, and he let them inside. Heiter ends up drugging both of them and bringing them inside of his makeshift medical ward. Lindsay had an attempt to escape Heiter's house. She was close to escaping, but she couldn't let her friend Jenny stay there. Jenny which isn't consciousness, got dragged by Lindsay outside, until Heiter captured them both. Heiter ended up using both Lindsay and Jenny for his Human Centipede experiment. In the end of the film, they tried to escape again, but failed. Jenny ended up dying from being ill, and Lindsay's faith is unknown.Katsuro Katsuro is also one of the main characters of the film. He is a Japanese tourist in Germany, which also got kidnapped by Heiter. Katsuro got kidnapped once the Truck Driver got killed, and he was instantly brought into the makeshift medical ward once kidnapped. Inside Katsuro was talking on his own Japanese language, and no one could of understood him. Heiter decided that Katsuro will be on the front of the Human Centipede, while Lindsay is in the middle, and Jenny is at the back. During the film, Heiter was forcing Katsuro to bring him paper, and he was treating the Human Centipede as a pet. Finally, Katsuro with Lindsay and Jenny, were close to escaping and Katsuro attacked Heiter, by stabbing him ,in the foot, and biting his neck. They were very close of escaping, though Heiter followed them, which escalated in Katsuro slitting his own throat, committing suicide. Kranz & Voller Kranz and Voller are the two German police detectives, which got sent to Heiter's house, because two tourists got reported missing, near his location. When they entered his house, Heiter tried to drug them, and to use them as new segments for his Human Centipede. Voller drank the water which was drugged, and Kranz was suspicions and pushed Heiter's hand, dropping the glass onto the ground, breaking it. Later on, both of the police detectives were suspicions of Heiter's weird behavior, and they came back to his house. Voller ended up getting killed by Heiter, and Kranz got killed afterwards, though Hanz shot Joef Heiter in his head, killing him aswell.

"I'm Dr. Josef Heiter, retired, but still very well known as the leading surgeon in separating Siamese twins. Six months ago, I designed a never seen operation on not separating anymore but creating. I transformed my three rottweilers into a beautiful 3-hund construction." Dr. Heiter spoke, watching as his captives regained consciousness. Katsuro was panicking in Japanese, struggling against the restraints. Lindsay and Jenny were panicking and crying to escape. He snapped his pen against his palm to silence them.

"I'll explain this spectacular operation only once. We start with cutting the ligamentum patella, the ligaments of the kneecaps, so knee extension is no longer possible. Pulling from B and C the central incisors, lateral incisors and canines from the upper and lower jaws. The lips from B and C, and the anus of A and B, are cut circular along the border between skin and mucosa, the mucus cutaneous zone. Two pedicellate grafts are prepared and lifted from the underlying tissue. The shaped incisions below the chins of B and C up to their cheeks connecting the circular mucosa and skin parts of anus and mouth, from A to B, and B to C, connecting the pedicellate grafts to the chin-cheek incisions from A to B, and B to C, creating a Siamese triplet, connected via the gastric system. Ingestion by A, passing through B, to the excretion of C." The doctor explained, pointing strictly to the projection behind him on the wall, either oblivious in his intense focus or simply ignoring the walls of his captives. He turnedto the three, glasses off. "Got it? Gut."