The Human Centipede II, Full Sequence (2011)

Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.

Director:

Tom Six

Writer:

Tom Six

Stars:

Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black

Bottom Rated Movies #92 | 1 win & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Laurence R. Harvey	...	Martin
Ashlynn Yennie	...	Miss Yennie - Centipede #1
Maddi Black	...	Candy - Centipede #2
Kandace Caine	...	Karrie - Centipede #3
Dominic Borrelli	...	Paul - Centipede #4
Lucas Hansen	...	Ian - Centipede #5
Lee Nicholas Harris	...	Dick - Centipede #6
Dan Burman	...	Greg - Centipede #7
Daniel Jude Gennis	...	Tim - Centipede #8
Georgia Goodrick	...	Valerie - Centipede #9
Emma Lock	...	Kim - Centipede #10
Katherine Templar	...	Rachel
Peter Blankenstein	...	Alan
Vivien Bridson	...	Mrs. Lomax
Bill Hutchens	...	Dr. Sebring

Storyline

Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project. He works the night shift as a security guard in an equally grim and foreboding underground parking complex. To escape his dreary existence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the cult horror film Human Centipede (2009), fetishizing the meticulous surgical skills of the gifted Dr. Heiter, whose knowledge of the human gastrointestinal system inspires Martin to attempt the unthinkable.

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Plot Keywords:

evil | psychopath | mute | feces | excrement eating | 

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Taglines:

Sick.

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

On June 6, 2011, the BBFC (UK certification board) refused to grant this film a certificate, effectively banning the movie from being shown in cinemas or DVD in the UK. However, on October 6, 2011, the BBFC granted the film an 18 certificate after thirty-two cuts (totaling two minutes and thirty-seven seconds) were made.

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Goofs

When Miss Yennie turns off the lights she turns off a plug socket. In the UK light circuits and socket circuits have to be separate so when she flicked the socket off only the appliance connected to the flex from the plug would go off and not the lights.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Ian - Centipede #5: Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Fuck!
Kim - Centipede #10: Ian, please! Could you just calm down?
Ian - Centipede #5: He did not know I took the car. He'll be absolutely fucking furious!
Kim - Centipede #10: Your dad doesn't have to find out. We can come back and get it tomorrow when we have the keys.

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Crazy Credits

The credit for set decorator is spelled "set Decorator" while all other credits contain no capital letters, for example other credits are spelled "set decorator assistant," "art director," etc.

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Alternate Versions

After the BBFC refused to give the film a classification in July 2011 (therefore banning the film in the UK), a cut version was sent to the BBFC with two minutes and thirty-seven seconds removed from the original version, removing some of the more violent, sexual and disturbing elements of the original. This cut of the film was issued an 18 certificate by the BBFC in October 2011.

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Connections

Featured in The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015)

User Reviews

Surprisingly it works.

What this singular piece of nastiness has going for it in the main is brevity, no film of 88 minutes really ever outstays its welcome. Tom Six feels like a guy who knows what buttons to push, he introduces a minor character who is a kind of cartoon of the UK doctor / serial killer Harold Shipman, whose educated, imperturbable, casually degraded outlook is like acid in your face. There's also an incredibly disturbing line that evokes the main character's messed up childhood, "Crying will only make daddy's willy harder".

Martin is an obese middle-aged nighttime security guard, who lives with his mother, who blames him for having his father sent to jail (i.e. being there for him to abuse). He is fantastically ugly, a stigma which in Western society leads to ostracisation. Martin is looking at these cards he's been dealt, which ain't great, and decides it's time for the proverbial to hit the fan, which is to say he'd like to try and re-enact his favourite DVD, The Human Centipede.

The British censors (and no doubt those of other countries will follow suit), have spared us a scene of a mother brutally killing her own newborn by mistake, of a coil of barbed wire being used as a marital aid, and like their forebears, the censors of Witchfinder General, had to ponder on just how many bludgeons with an axe, or in this case teeth removed by hammer blow, are acceptable, and decided on a lower number than the director.

The film is not quite squared away in terms of plot plausibility, but does what it can.

I actually found the movie implausibly human, what Martin ends up doing seems, on the face of it, entirely logical (which is not to say that everyone who is abused becomes an abuser). The film seems to have a message that people are marginalised and forgotten about at our peril, that society is judged by the people who behave the worst.

Two of Six's gambles that pay off extremely well are shooting the movie in black and white, and having Martin remain dialogue-less throughout. His implacability and remorselessness say all that needs to be said about someone who has been kept as an animal and poked one too many times. The black and white shooting literally portrays a miserable world drained of any colour.

Details

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

English

Release Date:

November 2011 (Australia)

Also Known As:

The Human Millipede

Filming Locations:

England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$49,456, 9 October 2011

Gross USA:

$141,877

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$170,323

Company Credits

Production Co:

Six Entertainment Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min 88 min (edited VOD)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1