![]() In a culture that praises deliberately inept film making like "Sharknado," it seems odd Six's "Human Centipede" series is so often dismissed as trash. It's the kind of thing that truly must be seen to be believed, as one expects him to pass out from the amount of energy he gives each line of dialogue. When not spewing expletives and contorting himself like Dennis Hopper in "Blue Velvet," Laser's character maims everyone around him at one point or another. Once again, Laser serves up the required nastiness with manic gusto, and the level he takes it to is a new high - and low - for screen bad guys. Like the first entry, "Human Centipede III" is darkly comedic, a necessity to help us stomach the awful things that seem to occur every other minute of running time. Frankenstein had the decency to experiment on people after they'd died, right? At the suggestion of his accountant Dwight (Lawrence Harvey, who starred in part two), Boss agrees to employ the ghastly surgical procedure from the "Human Centipede" movies, effectively attaching 500 prisoners end to end. Returning in a different role from the first film, Laser plays Bill Boss, a state prison warden looking for a way to get the violent inmates under control. Due to the unusual way the films are connected (no joke intended), you don't have to have seen the other two to enjoy this one, but you might greater appreciate what Six has accomplished. Sure, we act like we're disgusted, but we're all curious, and that's how we end up with movies like these in the first place.įor "The Human Centipede III: Final Sequence," writer-director Tom Six wraps up his highly original horror trilogy by adding a third layer of madness that takes things in a satirical, ridiculous direction. Stitching bodies together is an old idea - dating at least as far back as "Frankenstein" (if not further) - and it wasn't any less repulsive and disturbing back then as it is now. It was only upon re-evaluation that I realized the film was actually a mad scientist picture, the show belonged to lead actor Dieter Laser, and his performance was the kind that made cult stars.Īs you can see, I've dodged the obvious question of why on Earth I'd want to see such a movie in the first place. It took 45 minutes before anyone was sewn to anyone else, and that was the whole reason I'd wanted to see the movie in the first place. ![]() The first time I saw "The Human Centipede" (2009), I thought I'd been ripped off.
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