Directed by:
Tom SixScreenplay:
Tom SixCinematography:
David MeadowsComposer:
James Edward BarkerCast:
Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black, Kandace Caine, Peter Charlton, Peter BlankensteinVOD (3)
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After being banned in the UK, the wait is over for the most controversial movie of the year, Tom Six's follow-up to his original cult horror smash: THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE)! The opening night selection of Fantastic Fest 2011, the film ups the ante with a brute force unparalleled in motion pictures today. The iconic Dr. Heiter has inspired a real-life protege, the sickly, disturbed security guard Martin - who takes his gory inspiration from the original film to horrific new extremes--and one-ups the doctor with his piece de resistance, a 12-person human centipede of his own. Ashlynn Yennie, star of The Human Centipede (First Sequence), returns in this no-holds-barred assault on the senses that pushes the limits. (official distributor synopsis)
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Has Tom Six made a filthy meta horror film about how harmless perverts can become dangerous psychopaths after watching a filthy horror film? Probably not, because the last scene (i.e. the most cliché twist ever) allows for a completely opposite interpretation. I’d probably be one of the few who liked more the first and tighter part. It was more about the victims, I was able to relate to them and was mentally tramped by their sad fate. The second part, in contrast, moves only around the perverted protagonists and we don’t get to know anything about the victims. The first part is better as horror with a story, the second is more a probe into perverted thoughts, and I’m not saying that this is bad, it’s just that personally it doesn’t suit me. Martin (the protagonist) is portrayed very convincingly repulsive, which is one of the things that both parts have in common – Tom Six has a good nose for proper perverts. The rest of the actors, on the other hand, aren’t that good, and the film is not particularly well made, either, though the way it relies on brutality and nastiness it’s effective. So, four stars, but not as certain as the first part. PS: If the third part is to be even more meta, maybe some outraged film critic will sew together director Tom Six, Dieter Laser (Dr. Helter from the first part) and Laurence R. Harvey (Martin from the second part). I will give it five stars if it’s shot even worse :-D Edit: I’m reducing the rating to 3 stars, the memories of the film fizzled out surprisingly quickly.
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If the first episode was an innocent first date with a slightly peculiar partner, I would call the second one an outright fuckfest with the most disgusting sexual deviant imaginable. And if the first film – intimate, psychologically believable and emotionally quite intense – gave me the impression that Tom Six can weave stories, the second convincingly disabused me of that belief. The Second Human Centipede is admittedly brilliantly atmospheric, optimally morbid in its setting and main characters, even in the scenes free of physical violence, and boasts an extremely realistic psychopath whose daily life alone would make for quite a few horror films. But all the promising themes merge into a mindless carnage of such a disgusting and exaggerated nature that the only real emotion that remains is utter disgust, not at the actions of the "hero" (which was clearly the purpose), but at the actions of the director, who has the audacity to serve us civilized people such cheap and mindless filth. In addition to being supremely ugly, the film is also unimaginably nonsensical in terms of narrative logic – even a film primarily built on brutality shouldn’t have so many flaws and logical holes – and even Six's hilarious attempt to enrich the narrative with a noble twist fails to cover those flaws up. I finished watching it out of pure curiosity as to how far the filmmakers were willing to go in their visual openness, and I can honestly say that they went so far as to make the film worthy of being banned. This is not normal, really.
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This is the inevitable consequence of the great success that followed the release of the first movie. Tom Six unleashed his perverted imagination and gave fans what they wanted. A severely harsh and faecal piggy bank without any real story was created, which many people will probably enjoy, and a large number of other people will completely condemn with undisguised disgust. For me, this is exactly the kind of fringe movie entertainment I am not really into, and I do not need to watch it ever again.
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With the second instalment of his Human Centipede, the extremist Tom Six fills a gap in the history of cinema. He breaks taboos (pregnant woman, child) and develops the remarkable idea of the first film to such an extreme that only an ignoramus (that is, someone who is ignorant of the “splatter” subgenre) will fail to appreciate his ability to mold the fusion of horror and ultimate violence and disgust into such a surrealistically comical shape, without any traces of humor. True, he lacks the detached perspective of a young Peter Jackson. But his product is too professional to fulfil the parameters of trash and the deviance and anger of the realistically portrayed main character seem plausible and will unsettle some sensitive and hitherto untouched areas of your mind. But of course you have to be the right target audience. In my teenage years, I curiously searched the minds of the creators of films such as Cannibal Holocaust, Pink Flamingos and NEKROmantik – why and how they made such movies. And in a constant flood of Hollywood production, I enjoyed their otherness. I also enjoyed the second Human Centipede, which is more cinematic and dramatic than the first instalment, without a single boring moment and full of ideas that hold together and nicely escalate into a “grand finale”.
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Martin isn't a sophisticated lunatic like Doctor Heiter. He's just a small, chubby man who struggles with his victims dying, can't operate, gets frustrated by it, and his loved ones don't help him much. Eventually, though, he will succeed. So how is the new installment different? Is it better? First of all, the centipede is significantly longer now because it now has ten segments. Secondly, it shows, at least initially, how much the media can influence us. Is this what the film is trying to tell us? Or is it all just about the nastiness that it’s trying to shock us with?
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