The gospels tell us that Joseph of Arimathea took the body of Jesus and placed it in a tomb. Why? To show that Pontius Pilate, an independent witness, knew that Jesus was truly dead, and that the Galilean women could verify the location of the tomb.

Mark 15:46 reads, Then Joseph bought a linen cloth, and taking down the body, wrapped it in the linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb  (NRSV).

Each film or "sequence" in the Human Centipede franchise acts as both a standalone project and as a segment in a larger 4.5-hour film, with the trilogy serving as a 'Movie Centipede'. When Tom Six began creating the Human Centipede sequels, he envisioned a trilogy that works as a "movie centipede".

By attaching the three victims from mouth to anus for sharing a single digestive system, where the consumption of food in the first body reaches to the subsequent bodies as excrement or waste, the surgeon creates a human centipede or what he calls a Siamese triplet.