Required viewing from the week in movies.

The Human CentipedeSure, you could go see "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with all the teenagers and other audience members yelling at the screen, as if the characters could actually hear them. Or you can be a real horror fan and see "The Human Centipede," the Danish thriller that's being called the "sickest movie of all time." All we know about this one is that a crazy doctor stitches together a couple of stranded coeds into a literal version of the title. (We could barely get through an early clip [kinda NSFW], that's how messed up this movie is.) Polarizing audiences the world over, this is one foreign-language horror flick that won't be getting a bastardized American version anytime soon.

Also in theaters:
-- Michael Caine gets all Charles Bronson on some young punks in "Harry Brown," the story of a quiet Brit who goes on a vigilante rampage after the death of his only friend. Does Batman know that Alfred's been stepping out to bust heads in between cape cleanings?
-- While Jackie Earle Haley is perfectly cast as Freddy Krueger, we haven't heard anything positive about the reboot of "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Are modern audiences too jaded for Freddy? Those movies got really campy in the late '80s / early '90s. We're pretty sure Roseanne and Tom Arnold popped up by the end of the original franchise.
-- Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt and Amanda Peet star in "Please Give," an indie dramedy from the director of "Lovely and Amazing" and "Friends With Money." Keener's presence in a film is about as reliable a mark of quality as you can get these days.
-- Meanwhile, when Brendan Fraser battles woodland creatures in a movie called "Furry Vengeance," is safe to say there will be a head and/or crotch injury joke within the first 10 minutes.