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Film Review: ‘The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)’ is Worthless
Submitted by BrianTT on October 3, 2011 - 10:20am
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“The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) stars Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Bill Hutchens, and Vivien Bridson. It was written and directed by Tom Six. It plays at midnight at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago on Friday & Saturday, October 7th & 8th, along with the same nights the following weekend.
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
Photo credit: IFC Films
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CHICAGO – Make no mistake about it horror fans – Tom Six hates you. He thinks you’re worthless, easily manipulated, and pretty dumb. He thinks you’re little more than a gore-hungry animal who doesn’t give a damn about character, plot, or anything more than being horrified. The controversial director showed decent promise with “The Human Centipede (First Sequence),” but his much-maligned sequel “The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)” destroys all of it. By the end of the film, when the lead character is gleefully making pooping sounds in an effort to get his creation to do the same, I couldn’t help but think that’s exactly what this film’s creator is doing to his audience — spitting on them.
 Rating: 0.5/5.0 |
“The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)” barely even qualifies as a movie. It’s an idea – a pretty good one at that – upon which absolutely nothing but blood, spit, and sh*t was piled. What’s so unbelievably disappointing about “The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)” is not that it’s unbelievably disgusting but that it’s so unbelievably dumb. Six wants to turn viewers’ stomachs with his extreme gore but the awful filmmaking is significantly more nauseating than any of his half-assed (no pun intended) gross-out techniques.
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Writer/director Six (and I use both of those terms very loosely) starts promisingly enough in that “The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)” turns the tables on the viewers who liked the first film. The set-up is that the first film in which we watched a mad scientist stitch together three people anus-to-mouth to form the title creature with one digestive system was purely a work of fiction. The second film is in the real world and features a central character who is obsessed with the first one.
The disturbing-looking Martin (Lawrence R. Harvey) watches “The Human Centipede” every day in his little parking garage attendant booth and even keeps a scrapbook of memorabilia from the production under his bed. Of course, who doesn’t want to recreate the favorite movies from their favorite movies like those kids who made their own version of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”? Yes, Martin decides he too wants to create a “Human Centipede” but he’s going for the full 12-person version, not a measly three. Dream big, right?
Continue reading for Brian Tallerico’s full “The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)” review.The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
Photo credit: IFC Films
