The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)

Just perfect...

Absolutely Brilliant!

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Like i wrote on my review in the first movie, i have a guilty pleasure with shocking and disturbing content, and the first one was underwhelming in that department, but after watching the second one, it was everything i expected from the 1st one. not only was the gore and violence brought to the next level, but the portrayal of Martin done by Lawrence R. Harvey was (in my opinion) phenomenal, i'm in no way saying that the role was acted better than all other roles played by other actors, i'm saying that he played this role perfectly, to the point where while i was watching the movie, i felt bad for his character (even with all the horrible things he did). for the people who like being shocked for the sake of being shocked, watch this movie, for the people who can look past shocking stuff and enjoy seeing a great portrayal of an insane man, watch it.

This is a decent film of the shocker/horror, gore-fest genre. It delivers exactly what is promised in the trailer. I personally like it more than the other two films of the trilogy, it seems grittier and darker, in part due to being shot in black and white. The acting for this type of film is actually not bad, better than what I expected it to be. Now what I don't understand are all the negative reviews about this film, mainly accusing it of being extremely gory, violent, disgusting, etc. It seems as if the people who wrote such reviews thought they were going to watch another sequel to Lion King or something... The title alone should be a good indicator, along with the trailer (!) I mean, if you hate gory violent films, then watched the trailer for this film and still decided to go see it, you must have been either drunk or are a masochist. It's like a vegan who goes to a steakhouse and then writes a bad review about it because they eat meat there - what a surprise, right?... But for those who like horror and don't find this sort of material offensive, this is an entertaining, grotesque movie with lots of dark humor. I gave it 7 stars since it's not a great film really but, for what it is, it's fun and, very importantly, not pretentious, like so many horror films nowadays with directors who take themselves way too seriously.

Let's get this right from the start. This is not a horror movie, not even a "movie" in the conventional sense, and certainly not "art". (Incidentally the word "art" is often banded about when a film, or book, is so obscure within its genre, it is assumed there must be a loftier interpretation possible, but many times it becomes a substitute for the word "bad").This is a scatological fantasy committed to celluloid by the writer and director - Tom Six. It is a work of private pornography. A scatological fantasy would, by any psychological definition, be a par-aphelia - i.e. a mental sexual aberration whereby the subject derives sexual stimulation from objects or concepts, rather than from people. It is not in itself, in all cases, a bad thing. But in this particular variant, mixed in with torture and humiliation, it is a very bad thing.So, one can say Tom Six suffers from this particular perversity, and has attempted to follow it through via three "Human Centipede" movies. In each one he has pushed the logic of his predilection through to new heights (or lows). This is neither laudable nor to be encouraged.Why? Well, if anyone else truly gets off on the concept of forcing people under pain and duress to eat faecal matter to the point of death, finds this in the slightest bit enticing, or even interesting, then they should, in my humble opinion, immediately seek help from a qualified psychiatrist.I do enjoy shock cinema and I have had dreams which contain a content far worse than Human Centipede 2, but there is no way I would ever publish them for human consumption.The simple reason is such vile and evil images can damage the mind, particularly of young people, and, as a film maker I would not want this on my conscience.No, Mr Six, your film didn't shock me. It revealed the void in your moral compass, and the empty heart of your soul. And only YOU (not your audience) can help you with that.

Once the media circus died down following the emerging release of The Human Centipede (First Sequence) back in 2009, people actually sat down to watch it. Behind the reports of a macabre, utterly depraved film in which people were sown together ass-to-mouth and forced to s**t through each other as one huge digestive system, the movie itself was actually pretty tame. This was the main gripe a lot of people had with it, and it became a victim of its own hype (although I'm sure the film benefited from it financially). Director Tom Six's reaction to this was to make First Sequence seem like 'My Little Pony' compared to it's follow-up.And Part II does exactly that. Six has created an experience so utterly deplorable that even the most die-hard of gore-hounds will undoubtedly cringe at the horror on show. Every aspect of the film is designed to repulse it's viewers, causing critics of the first film to question whether this was the kind of debauchery they were hoping for in 2009. This approach may have been affective had Six demonstrated any hint of subtlety or artistic flair, but instead he delivers shock after shock like a cinematic endurance test and points and laughs at us like a giddy teenager showing someone 2 Girls 1 Cup for the first time. The idea came to him when he was asked if he thought a deranged fan could actually try and create their own human centipede, and his new antagonist was born.Overweight car park attendant Martin (Laurence R. Harvey) spends his days watching The Human Centipede on his laptop in his toll booth, and is such a huge fan of the film that he keeps a scrapbook containing movie stills, photographs of its actors, and hastily drawn diagrams of the grisly, yet '100% medically accurate' surgical procedure. Asthmatic and mentally retarded, he lives with his abusive and overbearing mother and was sexually abused as a child by his father. Tired of his miserable, repetitive existence, Martin decides to turn his fantasies into reality and create his own centipede. Not content with the work of Dr. Heitler in the first film, Martin plans a 12-strong centipede and starts to mutilate and kidnap his victims, storing them in a warehouse while he awaits the arrival of actress Ashlynn Yennie, who he has conned into coming to London on the promise of an audition for the next Tarantino movie.Six makes a point of showing Martin's lack of surgical skills. While First Sequence was crisp, clinical and in colour, Full Sequence is grimy, messy, and filmed in a depressing black-and-white. Rather than drugging his victims, Martin bashes them over his head with a crowbar, and unlike the surgical precision of Heitler, Martin duct tapes his victims and staples them together. It makes for a brutal experience, but its effects are dulled by some lazy writing - we are expected to believe the victims wouldn't struggle while their teeth are being knocked out one by one with a hammer or having the ligament in their knees removed. While I can certainly appreciate Six's desire to create something different to its predecessor, this is simply an unpleasant experience. I could appreciate disturbing, but Six opts for disgusting, and this exists simply to push your buttons.