The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) Review

Director: Tom Six
Writer: Tom Six
Stars: Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black
Run Time: 1 Hour, 31 Minutes
Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/38CheM0

Synopsis

We see the centipede from the first movie as the girls die. The end credits roll, and we see that it’s actually a film being watched on laptop screen by a nerdy little guy named Martin while he works in a parking garage. He likes the film. He likes it a lot. He goes out into the garage and shoots a young couple in the legs and then knocks them out. He pulls out his “Human Centipede Scrapbook” and drools over it. He rewinds the movie and watches it again. He’s the “Human Centipede” film’s number one fan.

Martin goe out and rents a warehouse space for his project. He kills the landlord and regrets wasting the material. Soon, we see that he has collected four living prisoners in the warehouse. 

His mother calls the psychiatrist to come over, since he’s “been talking about a centipede with twelve people.” The shrink gives some psychobabble reasoning, but he doesn’t suspect what’s really going on. He’s “sure it’s just a passing phase.” His mother just wants to die. The man upstairs beats up Martin because his mother complained about loud music. 

He studies the HC film, which is just a fictional movie of course, but he figures out how to do it in real life. He then captures a married couple, but leaves their baby in the car, untouched. 

Throughout the film, Martin coughs, wheezes, and sweats profusely. He’s clearly not a well man. He watches his favorite movie again, this time while masturbating with sandpaper. He calls the agent for the actress who played Jenny in the first movie and hires her to be in “his film” which, of course, is not a film, but reality. He wants Jenny from the first film to be in his real centipede.

His mother gets on his case about his book and pet centipede, so he kills her rather thoroughly. Happy with his work, he complains about the loud music and then knocks out that guy too. No more bullying for Martin! He packs up a bunch of duct tape and staplers in preparation for his “surgery.”

Martin’s a bit messy; he kills as many people as he kidnaps for his project. He kills another group in the parking garage, including his psychiatrist. As he walks out of the garage, he passes the car with the baby still in it. It’s probably been several days by now. Jenny arrives, thinking she’s auditioning for a Quentin Tarantino film. Whack! Now she’s tied up on the floor with all the others. Now it’s time for Martin to assemble the centipede…

First, it’s the crowbar-anesthesia for everyone. Once it’s quiet, Martin knocks everyone’s teeth out with a hammer. He cuts their knees in the same manner that he saw in the movie. Not being a real surgeon, he connects the people together with staples and duct tape. Still, it’s not long before Martin’s dreams come true. He has his own centipede– just like in the movies! 

Of course, there are problems. They won’t eat. They won’t poop. They scream too much. He gives them all laxatives and watches the carnage. The seals with staples aren’t surgical like in the first film, so they… leak. Then things start getting beyond Martin’s control. 

Commentary

This was in black and white, which was an odd choice. Apparently, it was shot in full color but Tom Six had to convert it to color because it was too gory. And it is very gory. 

The film is worth watching just to see Laurence R. Harvey show us how creepy he can be. This guy looks like Batman’s Penguin mixed with a frog, only he doesn’t have makeup or prosthetics. He is awesomely weird, and doesn’t say more than a few words in the entire film.