152 - The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

    A bizarrely disturbed man has a fascination with the first Human Centipede movie, and sets out to create a full, 12-person centipede, despite his lack of medical knowledge or training.
    The first movie was a bit of a conflict for me, this one was a more extreme conflict.
    Again, the picture has a very fascinating lead.  The main character, Martin, is built in a way that is hard to look away.  He's huge, but he's short.  His hair is simple.  His eyes are bulbous.  When he's on camera, it's hard to look away.
    Again, the premise of this gets people in the door, but the actual content is a little lacking.  Learning about Martin was much more interesting.  His project to build the 12-person centipede (which only has 10 by the time two of the victims die) is a little strange.  He's clearly fascinated by the first movie, but we don't quite learn what the centipede means to him.  In the first movie, the centipede was mostly a medical triumph for the doctor.  He believed that the design was elegant, and that he was creating something beautiful.  In this case, it's hard to say.  Martin does seem to have a degree of sexual interest in the centipede.
    A massive spoiler here - the ending implies that the entire thing is in his imagination.  Martin fantasized the whole movie.  As much as that sounds like a terrible ending, it actually helps the movie.  It makes the unbelievable nature of most of the aspects of the movie make sense.  Martin abducts people by smacking them around with a crowbar.  I'd expect him to accidentally kill more of his victims.  He's a sloppy killer, killing people in a parking garage that he works in.  He's on camera, and he doesn't seem bright enough to cover his tracks.  He leaves big trails to him - like making calls to get the actors from the first movie, and he abducts one of them.  He kills his mother, and his neighbor, and a guy who was looking to lease warehouse space.  Making it a fantasy helps to excuse much of this.

    I don't think I can recommend this one to many people, if any.  It's much more packed with gore.  Most of that gore is pretty dull, and not terribly inventive.  There's only one spot of gore that actually shocked me, and that's mostly because it was completely unexpected, and it didn't advance his plot.  Plus, it involves a baby, and that's kind of hard to watch.