Being that I found the first Human Centipede a rather pedantic and boring film, completely undeserving of the hype, I was not in any rush to see the sequel. Boy was I wrong. Everything I expected the first film to be but wasn't, the second film was.
Led by the lead, a squat, little, fat man named Laurence Harvey, Human Centipede 2 spends the first hour building up a quease factor that is just delicious. There is some minor gore through the first two acts of the film, but mostly it's a mind fuck and a general uneasiness with Harveys appearance. Rarely does an actor fit his role as well as Harvey does here. And although the look is a big part of it, he acts his ass off. It's just disturbingly awesome. There were moments I wanted to vomit just looking at him.
Writer/Director Tom Six does a fantastic job building to the third act by using Harvey and simple words and allusions to create an atmosphere of creepiness. It's ocular rape is what it is. Everything you see and hear makes your stomach turn just a little bit more as the film builds to a crescendo.
Now then, while the first hour builds based less on gore and more on the anticipated gore, the last half hour pulls no punches. It's gross, it's sadistic and it's flat out beyond the pale, so much so that it doesn't take long to become humorous as the fat little man creates his human centipede, forces laxatives into them, rapes the end girl whilst having barbed wire wrapped around his cock, and more.
I've watched some hardcore torture porn in the past, and while this film could be categorized as such, I think it does a disservice to the wonderful job that Six does of setting up his payoff. With very few sets and very little dialog, he creates a twisted fucking world with a demented main character that is completely enGROSSing.
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