Behind them, they heard Dr. Zurab stumbling through the corridors, weeping and whispering, "I will find new mouths. I will make a longer worm. A worm to reach the sea."
While the film is widely known by its English title in Georgia, the descriptive translation presents a unique linguistic challenge. The concept of the "centipede"—a multi-legged arthropod—is generally known, but the horror lies in the "human" prefix. In Georgian, the translation has to convey the medical grotesquerie of Dr. Heiter’s experiment. the human centipede qartulad