
A couple years ago on a Wednesday morning, I sat down in a tiny, almost empty theater, on the highest floor of the IFC Center in New York City. I was there to have an experience I had been looking forward to for months, after relishing in the promo images, the rants of sickened critics, and most of all, the online film community’s obsession with the mad scientist who stitches his victims ass to mouth.
It isn’t that I left the movie disappointed, but just somewhat puzzled. What I had just seen was a slick, well-made, very straight forward film. Mad scientist stitches victims ass to mouth. I had enjoyed it, but that was it; no more, no less. The hype wasn’t wrong, but it had ruined what could have been a beautiful discovery. Imagine sitting down in a theater for what you think is just another slasher film and seeing that happen. Imagine having no idea people are going to be stitched ass to mouth, and then, right in front of your eyes… surgically attached, ass to mouth.
After my experience with The Human Centipede, I strongly avoided exposing myself to any hype on the sequel, not wanting to know a single detail of the debauchery I was about to experience, and this was a good move on my part. Although writer-director Tom Six’s second entry in the Centipede series, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), doesn’t come up with anything that quite tops the initial horrible act, it definitely embellishes on it. It’s gross, it’s disgusting, it’s everything that made you cringe in the first film, amped up to the nth degree, times twelve.
And, oh boy, there are going to be a lot of angry, grossed out critics.
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