Title: The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence
Year: 2011
Genre: Horror
Director: Tom Six
Writer: Tom Six
Runtime: 88min
Cast: Lawrence H. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black, Kandace Caine, Dominic Borrelli, Lucas Hansen, Lee Nicholas Harris, Dan Burman, Daniel Jude Gennis, Georgia Goodrick, Emma Lock, Katherine Templar, Peter Blankenstein, Vivien Bridson, Bill Hutchens
Produc.: Six Entertainment Company
In The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence, Martin is a security guard, who inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser) prepares to carry out his own version of the insect.
November of 1957. Plainfield, Wisconsin. The police investigating the disappearance of Bernice Worden checks Edward Theodore Gein’s house, which they see as a possible suspect. When they enter into his property, they find Worden´s body hanging from its ankles, beheaded and open at the torso. But, that is not all. They also find ten women’s heads, missing the top, lampshades and seats made of human skin, and soup bowls made out of skulls, among some crazy crafts. After being arrested, Ed Gein is declared mentally ill and locked up in a psychiatric.
September of 1987. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer meets Steven Toumi in a gay bar, where they drink together; to then leave to a hotel. On The next morning Dahmer finds Toumi dead, without remembering how it was that he killed him. Right away he buys a suitcase, where he takes him to his grandmother’s basement. There he has sex with the dead body, to then dismember him and throw him away to the trash, except for his head, which he boils and bleaches, to expose it as a trophy.
The descriptions above are brief segments of the work of two of the most famous U.S. serial murderers, and that unlike Tom Six, they “where” crazy, indeed.
Many are those who have labelled this director of abnormal, for the grotesqueness of his movies. I, however, do not think I have seen anything to prove otherwise, than his great power of imagination. I believe that taking horror to new extremes should not be a synonym of dementia, or a reason for rejection. Being this also the case of the genre of the macabre, nothing is better than a director willing to wring our intestines.
But... The day that I found out that Six actually experiments with people, then yes, I change my mind. Meanwhile, I keep my position.
The image is in black and white. Two girls, attached to a corpse, suffer because of a retired surgeon who is mad as a hatter, but does not lack of anatomy knowledge. The camera, then pulls back, to get away from the scene and give way to the end credits. One cannot help it but to feel confused, until suddenly, everything becomes clear. Six places us in Martin´s booth, a parking lot security guard, who, in his notebook, has just watched the movie.
Suddenly one notices that the chrominance is still missing. The thing is that Six had had, from the beginning, the intention of shooting both films in this way. However, only now has he implemented it. His impression of that the black and white would add a greater touch of horror, was not mistaken.
Lawrence R. Harvey´s choice as Martin could not have been more perfect. Obese, of medium height, large eyes and broad forehead, he is more than appropriate for the role of the criminal.
As the names of the technical team run through, thoughtfully, Martin slightly grabs his lower lip. This is a man who has seen something disgusting, and meditates on it now. What could possibly come out of this? Certainly, nothing nice.
Moving in his chair, Martin turns away to his other monitor, where it shows was it caught by the surveillance cameras. Right off, he witnesses a couple in full dispute. Martin grabs an iron, with which he stands up, and practices the way he intends to hit them, although he carries a gun as well.
Six also includes part of his home life. Martin lives with a mother who mistreats him, and who gets to tell him, and to another unhinged neighbor, her desire to die. In one scene she intends to kill him in his sleep, but in the end, she is the sentenced one. Nothing, she knew about, what her son was capable of.
Yet, we have not seen the most interesting, but Six has already given us something for the impatience.
So far, The Human Centipede II has almost no dialogue. Whether Martin´s at home, or outside, we only hear him utter grunts or screams of rage. Great choice of a director, who has known how to, make use of the silences.
Long before the title sequence arrives, Six dedicates his good space to the gathering of victims, and he does not exaggerate. In this way we appreciate the declining health of Martin, to whom Lawrence´s very good interpretation assures as a tenebrous atmosphere and a character that scares. We are also delighted with some scenes of tension and suspense, which Six includes without hesitation. When sweaty, attacked by the asthma, and unable to hit a pregnant woman, Martin uses the inhaler; Six has made his character to even disgust us. What happens is that Martin is ugly, aesthetically displeasing, has a pervert´s look, that is visible from a mile away, and above all, still has to do his project.
Once we have assimilated all these traits, we understand that no athletic and well dressed Patrick Bateman American Psycho (2000) would have had the same effect.
Martin could be criticized for many things, but never for the lack of effort. His close study of Tom Six´s flick, has led him to build a folder with notes. In it is where he keeps his drawings, about how to perform the procedures.
Every day, he gathers new unfortunates in his hiding, whom he delivers to the obscurity of the almost abandonment, to hear others muffled screams, or to join them.
On one occasion in which he is preparing one of the bodies, another victim manages to scream: is just a movie! from his underprivileged position, as if that would change a thing.
Then, comes the long-awaited moment. Martin has already got the twelve pieces. These, scattered across the floor, terrified, wait for the inevitable to happen, gagged, sweaty, grimy, tearful and starving. The most fun game in which Martin has ever participated, is about to begin. From here on out will far exceed that of Dr. Heiter. The only thing, though, is that it will be messier. Martin, nothing knows about anatomy, his victims will not be sedated before being joined together, nor his method will demonstrate any skill.
Wich his first film, Six gave shape to, what had started as a joke between friends, although, not squeezing it enough. With this sequel he gets instead to reshape and give better (and higher) dimensions, to his idea, to frighten, and simultaneously, delight us. Six discards a colorful photography, and used the spoken word only, as a last resort.
If I had to mention any problem, I would say that the fact that Martin was inspired by a movie has sincerely, been for me needless. We are given to understand that he takes up the idea of the centipede, after having seen Tom Six´s The Human Centipede I. So, Six has designed a universe where Martin inhabits. A person who is, indeed, deranged, and willing to imitate, now yes, what he´s seen in a product of fiction, written, directed and produced by this director.
Six could have left them both, Heiter and Martin, to be part of same universe, and thus avoid us seeing his name in hi security guard´s notebook.
My rating: 8/10
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