1. A reasonably interesting mess in the spirit of Andy Warhol's Frankenstein.
2. If the movie works on any credible level, it's as a deranged, surreal experience.
3. Intended on some level as a very very black absurdist comedy of perversion and repulsion -- John Waters meets David Cronenberg...
4. It's no shock classic, yet it lingers in the mind, prompting weird thoughts like, "Would I go in the front, middle or back?"
5. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take three human beings and sew them all together via their digestive tracts? Wonder no longer!
6. Basically an unremarkable innocents-captured-by-maniac thriller that happens to have one perverse idea as its central gimmick.
7. [The sequel] is already in the can. Which is where many of us will be, seeking relief for emetically affected stomachs.
8. David Cronenberg this ain't.
9. I expected the film to be [R rated] B grade horror litter, but its conceit rises above the expectations, as does its technically polished execution and the dramatic seriousness of purpose
10. It scales the heights of yuckiness. It places a flag on a hitherto undreamt-of Everest-peak of offensiveness.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?
Grotesque, visceral and hard to (ahem) swallow, this surgical horror doesn't quite earn its stripes because the gross-outs overwhelm and devalue everything else.