Sometimes once you've started, you might as well continue the journey. At least that's the only explanation I can give to why I watched this controversial sequel. Leading up to watching the movie I felt like I was in line to a roller coater you don't want to really go on but your friends are pressing on you to do it and you know if you don't you'll always wonder what it was you missed out on. In the end I have to admit I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this film (the word "enjoy" being a very relative concept). In many ways this horrible grotesque torture porn on acid film succeeds. It's not trying to be The Sixth Sense, or any kind of artistic entertainment. It's going for the complete gross out, the evil twist to the anus-to-m mouth cult phenomenon that its predecessor introduced. I must applaud Tom Six, director and writer, for changing things up and giving us a new take on the idea. Sure there's lots of horror movie cliches thrown in there but this time they work. So what's this movie about? Well, without spoiling too much, it's about a guy named Martin who decides he wants to make his own human centipede, one made out of twelve people. Unlike the villain in the first film though, Martin is not a doctor, even a butcher would know more about flesh and blood than this guy. At times you almost have to laugh (okay you don't have to but sometimes the best remedy to being uncomfortable is laughing) and then at the end there's nothing funny to laugh at anymore. This is not a horror film, it's a gore film and probably the goriest one ever made. Thankful Mr. Six filmed it in black and white, which is very effective for many reasons. So how do I rate this kind of film? I have no idea. I can't recommend it to anyone unless they love horror movies, especially gory ones. I don't want to say it's a fun movie because its not. It's evil and the film makers make decisions that are just morally wrong. Yet a big part of me respects the reasons for such a disgusting film to be made. Mr. Six is already planning on going even further (which is hard to imagine) and make a final film. This time he's not holding back which means the next time we all should be worried. Grade: B
Spoilers: I also wanted to add that this film isn't scary. It's a completely different structured film. The first one was more of a psychological horror film where the hero of the story is Lindsay (the middle section or victim) and the doctor is the monster. We care about her, even if she proves to be an idiot, and root for her escape. In this one it's more like a slasher film in that the monster is the hero and the victims are nobodies that can be easily killed without much sympathy. Perhaps because the viewer is detached emotionally to the victims its easier to watch their destruction, no matter how shocking. In some ways its because of this that I get a feeling Mr. Six actually has a crafty objective or moral he's spinning in this soon to be three part freak show.
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