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Showing posts with label Tom Six. Show all posts
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Friday, 29 May 2015

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 3: FINAL SEQUENCE [2015]

Director Tom Six completes his Human Centipede trilogy with the utterly distasteful Final Sequence.
Dieter Laser & Laurence R. Harvey return from the previous films as a repulsive prison warden and his assistant  who decide it'd be fun to turn their inmates into the largest human centipede ever.  The film is filled all sorts of racism, misogyny, homophobia and enough shots of the American flag to make you wonder if Six is attempting to make some sort of a statement.  One expects to be offended and/or disgusted but should expect some sort of entertaining creativity, instead of this dull-witted schlock.  It takes so long to get to the centipede itself, you're left wondering if you're even in the right film.  Someone needs to smack some acting skills into Laser, because it's not even funny how annoyingly bad he is here.  With some imagination or smarts, Six could have used his lack of acting skills to the film's advantage but instead he just lets this shit happen.  In all honesty, one will probably find staring at the final word of this review more entertaining than the film itself.
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½ a pickled clit out of 5

Saturday, 19 November 2011

The Human Centipede II [Full Sequence] (2011)

I wasn't sure what to expect with this one. I went into it blindly and emerged somewhat surprised. First off, it's presented in black-and-white, which only enhances its creepiness factor. The portly dwarf character who lives with his mother and is obsessed by the original movie is a far cry from Norman Bates, but I couldn't help but draw comparisons. Not much else goes on apart from endless vicious sado-masochistic torture, but it did succeed in making me feel mostly uncomfortable, which I think is a smashing success.

3 sandpaper handjobs out of 5

The Human Centipede [First Sequence] (2009)

Not much I can say that hasn't been said before. A mad doctor connects three victims ass-to-mouth in his "100% medically accurate" science experiment. It gets points for a novel concept that has permeated pop culture but that's it. The movie is remarkably vapid when you get down to it; we've seen this kind of torture porn before (although not so graphically and horrifically portrayed).

2 extended scream sequences out of 5