Let's get this right from the start. This is not a horror movie, not even a "movie" in the conventional sense, and certainly not "art". (Incidentally the word "art" is often banded about when a film, or book, is so obscure within its genre, it is assumed there must be a loftier interpretation possible, but many times it becomes a substitute for the word "bad").This is a scatological fantasy committed to celluloid by the writer and director - Tom Six. It is a work of private pornography. A scatological fantasy would, by any psychological definition, be a par-aphelia - i.e. a mental sexual aberration whereby the subject derives sexual stimulation from objects or concepts, rather than from people. It is not in itself, in all cases, a bad thing. But in this particular variant, mixed in with torture and humiliation, it is a very bad thing.So, one can say Tom Six suffers from this particular perversity, and has attempted to follow it through via three "Human Centipede" movies. In each one he has pushed the logic of his predilection through to new heights (or lows). This is neither laudable nor to be encouraged.Why? Well, if anyone else truly gets off on the concept of forcing people under pain and duress to eat faecal matter to the point of death, finds this in the slightest bit enticing, or even interesting, then they should, in my humble opinion, immediately seek help from a qualified psychiatrist.I do enjoy shock cinema and I have had dreams which contain a content far worse than Human Centipede 2, but there is no way I would ever publish them for human consumption.The simple reason is such vile and evil images can damage the mind, particularly of young people, and, as a film maker I would not want this on my conscience.No, Mr Six, your film didn't shock me. It revealed the void in your moral compass, and the empty heart of your soul. And only YOU (not your audience) can help you with that.

I think we need a discussion about genres since anything dark or disturbing is being labeled as "horror." I remember when horror movies were about being scared. I remember when movies were made in such a way that you would worry about going to sleep at night or the movie forced you to look over your shoulder as you walked down the road because *insert supernatural bad guy* might get you.Now horror is just about the shock value. Even the corniest horror movies have elements of degradation, violation, and repulsiveness which did not exist some twenty years ago.There is something seriously wrong with the world when someone can not only think up this kind of movie, but get money to actually make it. Someone opened their wallet and said "Sure, I'll help finance a movie about sewing people's lips to someone else's anus. How much do you need?" I feel bad for the actors who are obviously looking for work experience, still, it's hard for me to believe that they didn't think twice before selling themselves out like this.It all feels like sado-masochism to the extreme, where people are enjoying violating people and making people feel disgusted in the extreme.

The second human centipede 2 is very much like the first but made up with 12 people instead of 3 which includes a pregnant woman. The film is very gross and sickening right the way through with the way Martin knocks unconscious his victims to get them to the warehouse where he his building his human centipede. Martin himself looks quite disturbing constantly coughing, sweating and acting disturbingly. The film has a very slow build up and is mostly built upon him creating the human centipede with the main action only happening in the last 30 minutes of the film. Which is one of the main factors for me only rating it only a 6 out of a possible 10. I have yet to see the human centipede 3 but I hope it is better than this one.

This is "The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)", an American English-language movie from 4 years ago that runs for slightly under 90 minutes. It is the second installment from a series of (so far) 3 movies. All of these were made by Dutch filmmaker Tom Six and basically deal with sewing human anuses and lips together so that a human being can be nurtured by the digestion of the one in front of him/her. This is obviously a very perverted plot, but you should never judge a book by its cover. I must say I truly enjoyed the first "Human Centipede" film. The action was absurd, the girls were hot and Dieter Laser was simply brilliant. Sadly, the ending of this film did not really offer much room for a sequel.But Six did it nonetheless and the way he constructed thing was actually pretty smart. In this second movie, the action revolves around the first being an actual movie and the protagonist being obsessed with that movie. Six really tried all he could to make this one worth a watch. He turned it into a black-and-white movie. He made the main character totally different from the one in the first film. (Harvey did a good job with what he was given and taking into account he never speaks in here.) He introduced us to the theory of sexual abuse as a reason for this perverted idea. And the inclusion of Ashlyn Yennie's character was pretty smart and well-done as well in the face of her being one of the protagonists from the first film.Still, as a whole, I was slightly disappointed with this movie. There are several plot references that just did not make any sense. He keep hitting the members of his centipede with heavy items to the head that I thought each time they must be dead, but somehow they all lived. In addition, I did not like the penis shots of the protagonist. I'm glad we did not see him ejaculate graphically, but the strength of this franchise is for me about how messed-up the protagonists are and not about how graphic the sexuality and violence is. The latter is obviously unavoidable, but I never watch this film from a sexual perspective. It's nothing wrong with the protagonist feeling sexual pleasure from his centipede and the anal sex scene was truly shocking, but yeah, the penis shots took it on a course that stands contradictory to the idea.Finally, this film is really only worth watching thanks to many great references to the first movie I think. One minor thing would be for example how Heiter wished he had cut the people's vocal chords in the first film and in this one here we have the small fat protagonist actually cut out somebody's tongue. I will probably watch the 3rd film at some point, but it's nothing I cannot wait seeing anymore after watching this pretty mediocre second film. It's probably easier to make a 3rd film than to make this second movie as Martin lived and left here in the end and I see the actor also reappear in the (so far) last installment. We'll see how that one goes. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend movie number 2 though. thumbs down.