First Sequence has been criticized for being a one-trick pony, but that’s what I find makes it, for lack of a better word, endearing. Enough ink has been spilled over the years that I don’t feel the need to explain what that means, but for the uninitiated and/or unimaginative, it is handily summarized in the film’s signature image: A German mad scientist (played with reptilian gusto by the wonderfully named Dieter Laser) abducts three foreign backpackers for the purpose of creating a human centipede. The first film in the series, aptly entitled The Human Centipede (First Sequence), is, to borrow the tagline from the Spanish slasher film Pieces, Exactly What You Think It Is. The stories, like their subjects, are connected solely by one, disgusting thread. While some actors appear in multiple installments, no characters exist from one film to the next. Unlike most franchises, in which each film serves as a continuation of a single story, the Human Centipede films each take place in a new, self-contained universe, in which the previous entries exist as feature films.
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But in order to fully unpack it, I feel I should spend some time discussing how the Human Centipede series works. I’m here to review Six’s latest entry, entitled, much to detractors’ relief, The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence). But I also won’t pretend to not love these movies. “Revolting.” “Trying too hard to shock an increasingly jaded fanbase.” I can’t really argue with any of these points. In the annals ( har) of horror, few franchises have taken as much shit ( hardy har) as Tom Six’s series of graphic, weirdly single-minded body horror epics.
Tom Sixįriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come not to bury the Human Centipede, but to praise it. Film, Film Review The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015) dir.
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