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Whereas the first 'Human Centipede' was mostly just about pushing boundaries, the second chapter was delightfully self-referential, focused on a character inspired to create his own centipede after watching the first movie. With 'The Human Centipede 3', writer- director Tom Six takes this self-referential angle even further, focusing on prison staff inspired by the first two movies who invite Tom Six to supervise their construction of a real prisoner human centipede. Dieter Laser - who was the lead actor in Part 1 - is the prison warden and has several amusing lines as he declares that the first two 'Centipede' films "stink" and calls Six "an infatuated toddler". Six's cameo is a lot of fun too; same goes for his choice to retain Laurence R. Harvey playing a totally different character. Six trips up though by giving Laser free reign to go as over-the-top as he likes as the warden, driven insane by heat. It is a distracting exaggerated performance and one that unjustly takes up most of the screen time, with the construction of Laser's centipede left to the final quarter of the movie. In short, those who liked the self-referential elements of Part 2 will still find a lot to like here, but those in it for the shocks and graphic imagery may be disappointed. And for those who did not like either aspect of the second film, what are you doing reading this review?
Bill Jordan
Obviously, a lot of folks didn't like this movie. Not sure if they were expecting more gore, or found it too disgusting, but of the centipede trilogy, this is the one I laughed at the most. I was hoping for a bit more gore (what can I say, I'm a fan of the gore-fest), but the overacting and dialog that made fun of the first two films and characters had me cracking up, and I'm sure it was the intent of the movie to be comical. Laser's constant screaming did make it difficult to understand what he was saying, but his body language made up for it. As some have criticized, it does take a bit long to get to the sequencing, and you don't see the detail that the other films had, but by this point, since most have seen the other two films, its more the idea that's important than the execution of it. But be warned, there are still scenes that will make you squirm a bit.
Robin Leach
Whilst I haven't seen the first film, I watched the Full Sequence which was fairly bad, and so didn't have high hopes for this one. Well it seems I still should have set my expectations considerable lower as I made it through 20 minutes of this snore fest before turning it off. What has clearly happened is that Tom Six came up with one suitably shocking idea that could be turned into a decent movie, provided you're in the target audience of people who want to be grossed out by extreme taboos. And so The Human Centipede: First Sequence was made. Now I can't comment on the quality of the first film (having not seen it myself), but I can say that this was the only thing Tom Six came up with, and hoped that with suitable hype-building slogans and by capitalising off of the shock value of the first film he could go even further. Literally the only shocking thing about it is that enough people agreed it was worth putting out that it actually got released.It's so dull. The acting is dreadful, the script is astoundingly lazy and unimaginative, the direction is dire, there's no plot and there's no point. If you want to watch it for the shock value, don't. In fact there's no reason why you should watch it at all. It gives the impression of being made by a 12 year old, and has absolutely no merit as a horror film. I'd even suggest the term 'film' is an optimistic one to use here.Tom Six is a one-trick pony and a lazy, immature, amateurish "director" who thinks he's a lot more controversial than he is just because he made a film that garnered some discussion and shock a while ago.Don't waste your time on this junk, please.
anatole_axel
Why on earth would someone be so messed up in the head that people would like what goes on in this movie. Honestly just think about this for a second. How much shame and humiliation these actors must suffer because of just going along with this. Oh well they aren't very good actors if they are stupid to be in a movie this vile and disgusting. i mean just the plot i read disgusted me. thank god i will never see the movies. but i am sick and tired of them continuing to make more. and i hope the producers and directors read this review so they know how much their movies suck!!!! i mean seriously you all should be ashamed of yourselves!!!!
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