The often flat frame yields nothing from close-ups of sliced (eventually digested) scrotum or boiling water-boarding, while Lasers shrill, garbled racial epithets, misogyny (in some cases both: Thank God for Africathank God for female circumcision) and the prisoners consistent threats of rape are all similarly impotent. Here, its lacking any energy or atmosphere in the filmmaking to support either. Harveys Martin as a squalid funhouse reflection.Īs with the previous films, the ending of Part 2 feeds into Part 3, a meta movie centipede making Final Sequence some blend of both (Harvey is again a standout), reveling in deplorable acts and somehow enamored by Dieter Lasers agonizing performance. It then proceeded to give it to them, while confrontationally forcing viewers to reconcile Laurence R. The Human Centipede proved an exercise in camp madness, while The Human Centipede 2 took on a so-grim-its-gonzo aesthetic to chastise its audience for wanting more explicit horribleness from the first film. America.įor all its pointedness however, The Human Centipede 3 is never as sharp as its predecessors. This is a film about a sexually abusive, torture happy, cowboy-costumed tyrant who employs a seedy yes man and a porn star (poor Bree Olson, serially subjugated throughout). Six is drawing with easy symbols here, as incisive as one can be from an armchair. Director Six stages all of this in excruciating and excruciatingly dull detail, his widescreen and often static camera takes on the frank observation of a nature doc, but none of the fascination.įilling that widescreen frame is the warm, high noon glow of a western. prison statistics are rattled off and all of Bill Bosss underlings go along with his deviance so as just to keep their jobs. The Texas prison itselfan uninhibited, vile cesspool of torture, racism and rapeis named for George Bush for instance, while U.S. Much of The Human Centipede 3 is focused on such blunt force convention. Therell be a 500-person pede because everything is bigger in Texas. The audience is vile, and so is the world at large. Anyone who endures the bore of a finale, which serves largely as an echo chamber for the series shock value concerns and gory content, will ultimately be left with a similar response. If theres ever an audience surrogate in The Human Centipede 3aside from those forced to ingest shitit is in that moment, Dr. Following a particularly nasty encounter with an inmate, penitentiary warden Bill Boss ( The Human Centipedes Dieter Laser) proudly, arrogantly reiterates to the prisoners doctor, I castrated him. Without missing a beat, an exasperated Dr. There is one genuinely entertaining moment in the conclusion to Tom Sixs ass-to-magnum opus, The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).
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