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The Human Centipede 2

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (Full Sequence) (IFC, 2011) D: Tom Six, w/ Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie. Rating: NNN DVD package: NN Rating: NNN


Writer/director Tom Six’s original Human Centipede was a mediocre movie that got by on its one spectacularly original, grotesque and gross idea: a mad doctor stitches people together mouth to anus for his sadistic amusement. The shock value was immense, but that wears off. To his credit, Six tackles that problem by making a movie that’s as unlike the original as possible while delivering the same disgusting action.

Gone is the cultured mad doctor, replaced by emotionally and socially dysfunctional Martin, who’s obsessed with the first movie and kidnaps not three, but a dozen victims for his graphically depicted amateur surgery.

Hand-held black-and-white visuals and a filthy setting add to the overall air of deranged depravity. So does the absence of dialogue. There’s none at all to interfere with the torture porn of the last half-hour.

Actor Laurence R. Harvey does a brilliant job of making Martin both pitiable and contemptible. On the commentary he shares with Six, he takes a shot at defending the movie as black comedy and satire, but Six nails it when he says, “This is a movie about shit.”

EXTRAS Director commentary and interview, set tour, sound effects footage, poster creation doc. B&w. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

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