I’ve about reach my threshold of writing about Human Centipede 2 in the last 24 hours, as it released a viral-style teaser trailer and was announced as the opening Fantastic Fest film. I’d only bring it up again for actual footage, and that’s what we’ve finally got.
As you might expect there’s very little actual footage (much more of the first film), but it gives you a nice moving look at Martin, the new villain. A complete 180º turn from the coldly analytical, delicately thin sharpness of the glasses-sporting Dieter Laser (Dr. Heiter), now we have Laurence R. Harvey playing a short, soft, round creep with the buggiest of bug-eyes. Also he generally seems much less… with it than Dr. Heiter, which could certainly make him more dangerous and unpredictable.
The trailer also gives up the goods on the meta aspect of the plot, which has our *achem* protagonist emulating the events of the first film with his own twisted sense of excess. It’s also entirely in black and white, which I had not heard was the case for the sequel. Is that how the film is actually presented, or is it a trailer only thing? The footage is pretty beautiful, so I’m kind of crossing my fingers for B&W.
This is a Yahoo! debut, which makes me chuckle for some reason.
Now that you’ve finally got a look, think you’ll be in a theater, or peeking at this through clenched fingers in your own home? Twitter, comments, boards.
I caught this through former-CHUD writer Alex’s Tumblr.
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Meh. I didn’t like the first one. Same problem as with Hostel: they promote the film as some giant of shock cinema and you walk out thinking “That’s it?” Friday The 13th-silly type of bad acting and dumb film making, that’s all it was. Not shocking, poorly executed and dumb, dumb, dumb.
Too bad because it’s a nice promise of gruesome material with a good premise but the execution killed it for me. Too many giant plot holes and dumb, dumb, dumb storytelling decisions. They obviously don’t know what the fuck to do with the material.
Speaking of fecal matter, this film continues to confirm that most people are stupid and will eat shit if presented with the opportunity. To wit: this sequel. I, for one, won’t bother even being curious.
Fucking agreed. Ugh.
Agreed as well. My husband and I were watching this on our iPad on a plane (with headphones on of course) and were only shocked at how NOT shocking it was. Like NiceTroll said – dumb dumb dumb storytelling. Of course the MST3K aspect of how a man who only speaks Japanese is supposed to understand German and English orders was rather funny. But that doesn’t make up for a such a poorly made (albeit shot boarderline professionally) film.
Hmm. A couple more sequels and an animated series and this’ll be a prime candidate for “Franchise Me.”
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