The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)


The Human Centipede 2 is a 2011 psychological body horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Tom Six. An international co-production of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and the sequel to Six's 2009 film The Human Centipede , the film stars Laurence R. Harvey as a psychiatrically and intellectually impaired English man who watches and becomes obsessed with the first Human Centipede film, and decides to make his own "centipede" consisting of 12 people by using crude and violent techniques to connect their lips to each others buttocks, including Ashlynn Yennie, an actress from the first film.
The Human Centipede 2 received substantial attention and controversy for its graphic depictions of violence, sexual violence, forced defecation, and overall body horror. It was subject to heavy [|censorship] throughout the world where it was sometimes edited to remove objectionable content or banned altogether. It was critically panned, with much criticism focused on its acting, plot, editing, and violence, although Harvey's performance received some praise from critics.

Plot

In the tollbooth of a parking garage in East London, Martin Lomax is watching The Human Centipede , a film he is obsessed with, on his laptop. Short, obese, asthmatic, and mentally challenged, Martin lives in an unkempt council flat with his emotionally abusive mother, who blames him for having his father put in prison for physically, psychologically, and sexually abusing Martin when he was a boy. Dr. Sebring, Martin's psychiatrist, touches him inappropriately and prescribes him heavy medication. Martin keeps a pet centipede.
In an appointment with Dr. Sebring at home, Mrs. Lomax talks about her son's unsettling discussion about creating a twelve-person centipede. Dr. Sebring says that Martin's obsession with a twelve-person centipede and centipedes in general is a "phase", relating the pain of a centipede's bite and phallic shape to the sexual abuse he endured at the hands of his father. Mrs. Lomax remains resentful and apathetic towards Martin.
Martin acquires a dingy warehouse after killing the owner and landlord, and begins abducting people to use for a twelve-person human centipede. His victims include a young couple, a man and his pregnant wife, and two drunk girls who catch Martin masturbating with sandpaper. Martin's mother finds and destroys his scrapbook in disgust after unsuccessfully attempting a murder-suicide. When Mrs. Lomax attempts to dispose of his centipede, Martin throws his centipede on her face, which bites her. After killing her by bludgeoning her head with a crowbar, Martin then lures his detested neighbour, Dick, to the scene, before shooting and kidnapping him.
Back at the tollbooth, Martin catches on one of the CCTV security cameras Dr. Sebring and a taxicab driver having sex with a prostitute. Martin kills Sebring in a fit of rage and abducts the others. Martin's final victim is Ashlynn Yennie, the actress who played Jenny in The Human Centipede, whom Martin lures under false pretenses of being Quentin Tarantino's casting agent.
Martin assembles his "centipede". Following his notes and sketches from The Human Centipede, Martin severs the ligaments in each person's knees to prevent them from fleeing and uses a hammer to knock out their teeth. Martin initially tries to mutilate the buttocks of each victim. When he cuts into the buttocks of one victim too deeply, it causes him to bleed to death. Instead of surgical tools, Martin uses a staple gun and duct tape to attach each person's lips to the next person's buttocks. The pregnant woman, who was planned to be the front of the centipede out of sympathy for her pregnancy, is presumed dead; Martin places her in the corner. Martin's "human centipede" is ultimately ten people long with Ashlynn in front.
Martin experiments by having his centipede walk around and force-feeds Ashlynn cream-of-mushroom soup using the funnel and tube when she refuses to eat from the dog bowl. Disturbed by Ashlynn's screams, he tears her tongue out with pliers. Martin soon starts rubbing on his victims' stomachs in hopes that they defecate. When they don’t, this angers Martin. He then injects each victim with a laxative, forcing them to uncontrollably and violently defecate into the mouth of the person behind them in a chain like reaction, causing all the victims to swallow each other's excrement much to Martin’s excitement. He wraps his genitals in barbed wire and rapes the woman at the back of the centipede. The pregnant woman awakens and runs outside screaming, in labour. She leaps into a victim's car and gives birth. When Martin pursues her, she stomps on the accelerator, crushing her baby's skull in the process, and drives away.
Martin returns to the warehouse and finds that the centipede has separated into two halves after one victim was able to free his lips from another victim's buttocks. Furious that his centipede is ruined, Martin executes the victims via gunshot and stabbing with a knife. As he hesitates to kill Ashlynn, she punches him in the crotch and shoves the funnel into his rectum, before dropping his pet centipede into it. Martin fatally stabs her in the neck and staggers out in agony.
The scene cuts back to the tollbooth with Martin rewatching the credits of The Human Centipede, leaving the audience to wonder whether the events even happened.

Cast

  • Laurence R. Harvey as Martin Lomax, a short, fat, asthmatic, and mentally challenged man in his 40s who becomes obsessed with First Sequence. Martin does not actually have any dialogue in the film except for a few laughs and moans.
  • Ashlynn Yennie as Miss Yennie / Human centipede No. 1: Martin captures Yennie by flying her over from America thinking she was auditioning for a Quentin Tarantino film. She plays as a fictionalized version of herself and is in the front of the centipede, acting as the head.
  • Maddi Black as Candy / Human centipede No. 2, a prostitute who is kidnapped by Martin while performing oral sex on Dr. Sebring in a cab that was driven by Paul. She is placed behind Ashlynn and is forced to consume her excrement.
  • Kandace Caine as Karrie / Human centipede No. 3, a woman who is captured by Martin after coming from a party drunk along with Valerie. She is placed behind Candy and is forced to consume her excrement.
  • Dominic Borrelli as Paul / Human centipede No. 4, an overweight cab driver that buys Candy for himself and Dr. Sebring, but is taken by Martin along with Candy. He is placed behind Karrie and is forced to consume her excrement. He is the only male that is placed behind a female.
  • Lucas Hansen as Ian / Human centipede No. 5, an aggressive and abusive young man who is the boyfriend of Kim. He is placed behind Paul and is forced to consume his excrement.
  • Lee Nicholas Harris as Dick / Human centipede No. 6, the aggressive upstairs neighbor of Martin and his mother, who has threatened them with violence when the mother complains about his loud music. He is placed behind Ian and is forced to consume his excrement. He causes the centipede to split into two after he frees his lips from Ian’s buttocks.
  • Dan Burman as Greg / Human centipede No. 7, a young man who is the first victim and is first seen gagged and unconscious in Martin's van at the beginning of the film. He is placed behind Dick and is forced to consume his excrement.
  • Daniel Jude Gennis as Tim / Human centipede No. 8, a rich man. When he and his pregnant wife Rachel are abducted by Martin, their young child is left crying in their car for the rest of the film. He is placed behind Greg and is forced to consume his excrement.
  • Georgia Goodrick as Valerie / Human centipede No. 9, a woman who is captured by Martin after coming from a party drunk along with Karrie. She is placed behind Tim and his forced to consume his excrement. She is the only female who is placed behind a male.
  • Emma Lock as Kim / Human centipede No. 10: The girlfriend of Ian. She is placed behind Valerie and is forced to consume her excrement. She acts as the functioning anus of the centipede.
  • Katherine Templar as Rachel / Human centipede No. 11, a pregnant woman and Tim's wife, who is abducted by Martin. She was planned to be in the front of the centipede out of sympathy for her pregnancy, but she escapes after being presumed dead by Martin.
  • Peter Blankenstein as Alan / Human centipede No. 12, a man who is taken by Martin when he complains about the ATM having no cash. He bleeds to death after Martin mutilates his buttocks. He was supposed to be in between Valerie and Kim in the centipede.
  • Bill Hutchens as Dr. Sebring, Martin's psychiatrist.
  • Vivien Bridson as Mrs. Lomax, Martin's mother.
  • Peter Charlton as Jake, the lessor of the warehouse Martin uses for his "centipede". Martin wanted to use him for his centipede, but he accidentally kills him.

    Production

Director Tom Six stated in 2010 that he was working on a sequel to The Human Centipede , as well as a possible third film depending upon its success. He said that the plot would follow on from the first film, but with a centipede made from 12 people as opposed to the three victims of the first. The tag-line would be "100% medically inaccurate", in contrast to his "100% medically accurate" claim for the first film. Six stated the sequel would be much more graphic and disturbing, making the first film seem like "My Little Pony compared with part two."
Speculation regarding the plot of Full Sequence grew after the Weekend of Horrors convention in May 2010, when Ashlynn Yennie and Akihiro Kitamura, who had starred in First Sequence, hinted that their characters might return for the sequel despite their deaths in First Sequence. Additionally, Ashley C. Williams, whose character was left alive at the end of First Sequence, stated in September 2010 that she was shooting a horror film in Britain, which led to speculation from FEARnet that she is reprising her role of Lindsay. In a further interview, Yennie confirmed Six's statement that the sequel would contain "the blood and shit" which viewers did not see in the first film. Mark Hamill was offered an undisclosed role in the film, but turned it down as he was "disgusted" by the premise.
Six was inspired to make the movie a metafilm after reporters kept asking him if he worried about people committing copycat crimes inspired by the first film. Although he had previously considered the concept for a possible sequel, the questions cemented his idea.
According to Six, he intentionally made Full Sequence very different from First Sequence for two reasons. First, when he was writing the script of First Sequence, he knew people would want more "blood and shit" than is shown. Second, the two parts reflect the different characters: the coloured First Sequence, with a slow-moving camera, fit the story of Dr. Heiter, while Martin Lomax's character required a "dark and dirty" film. Six shot Full Sequence in colour, but "was always thinking about black and white" and realized while editing that it was "much scarier" that way. It was also Six's idea to have little dialogue in the film's second half, except for moans, screams, grunts, flatulence, whimpers, and Martin either laughing or crying.
Principal photography for Full Sequence began in London in June 2010 with a largely British cast. A teaser trailer was released on 24 September, in which Six introduced Martin, a man wearing a cardboard box over his head, as the new doctor.