I am sure you can put the pieces together.īy the time Martin gets around to constructing his “centipede” the film has not lived up to it’s hype as being unbearably brutal. His tools include duct tape and a plethora of knives and other kitchen utensils… oh yeah, and the all-important staple gun. Randomly selecting most of his victims from the garage in which he works, Martin employs his crowbar and occasionally a handgun. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (Full Sequence) is at least inclusive and mindful of diversity, as Martin’s collection of human “segments” span a wide array of characters, including a pregnant woman and the female star of THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE Ashlynn Yennie, who plays herself. This activity occupies a good chunk of the middle of the film, which gets to be a bit tedious a bit quick.
He gradually builds his inventory of human specimens, stashing them in an old, filthy warehouse space. The primary catch is, Martin is not a surgeon and has no clue what he’s doing.
Heiter’s work, but longs to take the project to its full sequence of twelve human beings. Martin watches THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE repeatedly and pieces together a scrapbook of the film. He lives with his verbally abusive, mentally disconnected mother who forces him to have sessions with an older, bearded shrink who actually wants to molest Martin himself. The general story of HC2 is as follows: Martin is haunted by his father’s voice, who psychologically and sexually abused him as a child. Heiter used anesthesia to subdue his victims. His character serves more as a slasher character than anything, wielding a crowbar to repeatedly take out his victims, but only to render them unconscious, whereas Dr. Finding any way to empathize with Martin is an exercise in futility.
Where THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE came close to accomplishing this, its as though Tom Six through the rule book out the window for HC2. Waters folded the shock value into his films, while still making them fun and giving them purpose. What is so “bad” about THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (Full Sequence) you ask? I have to bring up John Waters. What the black and white does is to quell (ever-so-slightly) the magnitude of the imagery he captures on film. If Tom Six was shooting for creating an over-the-top, gut-emptying shockfest of a film, sticking to color would have made more sense.
Part of me feels like the choice to film in black and white was to reduce the cost of post-production, but that’s nothing more than speculation. Tom Six chose to film HC2 entirely in black and white, and with that the cinematography is accomplished, not spectacular, but gives the film a different look. Martin never speaks a word throughout the entire film, only making occasional awkward noises and giggles, repeatedly sticking his fingers in his mouth like a toddler that needs constantly be told “don’t put that in your mouth.” Admittedly, there are moments in the first half of the film where this shtick produces some laughs, but the gimmick eventually gets old, especially in the second half when it’s overshadowed by the graphic carnival of pointless carnage. Harvey) that still lives at home with his depressed mother and works as a parking garage attendant. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (Full Sequence) takes place in London and follows a short, tubby man-child named Martin (Laurence R. Where the first film succeeded at producing a memorable lead character with cult classic potential, the sequel fails on almost every level to follow up with an equally unique character. He was able to pull a creepy, cool performance from Dieter Lasser as Dr. Let’s talk about THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (First Sequence) just for a moment… In the original film, Tom Six had actually created a fun, weird little story - the key here being the presence of a story - with some character development.