Human Centipede 1 (First Sequence)
Synopsis:
The movie started with 2 Americans, Linsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) who are in Germany for holiday. However their car broke down and they decided to seek help at a house, occupied by Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser). But, they are drugged, bound and took to an underground basement with many surgical tools. They woke up and found that a Japanese male captive, Katsuro (Akihiro Kitamura) was also kidnapped and bounded by Dr. Heiter. The doctor then went on to explain that he wanted to make new creature called as human centipede where 3 people - implying 3 of them will be sewn together from mouth-to-anus and share a single digestive system. He has done an experiment on 3 dogs but the surgery were unsuccessful and died shortly. Dr. Heiter then proceed to perform surgery onto his victims by firstly placing Katsuro in the front, Lindsay in the middle and Jenny at the rear. He also cut off the ligaments of his victims so that they are forced to crawl and stick all his victim together from mouth-to-anus, thus creating the perfect human centipede. When detectives, Kranz and Voller came on a random visit to investigate the disappearance of the american tourists, the victims decided to escape but failed. Thus, Katsuro decided to commit suicide by slitting his own throat while Jenny succumb to blood poisoning after becoming sick.During searching for Heiter, Heiter attacked both detective Kranz and Voller but ended with all 3 men killed. Thus Lindsay is left alone and trapped between both victims.
Review:
Before it was released, this movie generated many reviews and news for its brilliant but sick and twisted storyline. It generated many interest viewers and mine included. When i have the copy of this movie, i was excited and although it wasn't so shocking and gore - in fact there wasn't much gore at all, the story was quite nicely balanced out and we can almost felt the pain, the fear in the victim eyes when Heiter explained to them that they will be sewn together. It almost give me goosebumps thinking if i was a victim and operate against my will. It was just slightly on the borderline of being satisfied with its skirmish department but the story was satisfying enough although the acting of Dieter Laser was the weakest among all.
Verdict:
I give this a 3.5 star over 5 for its originality.Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
Synopsis:
The movie stated with the end of the 1st movie whereby a security guard in toll booth for an apartment was reveal playing this movie on a laptop. The man was later revealed as Martin Lomax (Laurence R. Harvey) an asthmatic, fat middle-aged man with some mental issue. He lives in a small apartment with his mother (Vivien Bridson) and was always subjected to the abuse of his mom. He was engrossed in the Human Centipede film that he watched it repeatedly and had a scratch book to draw the operation sequence portray inside the film. In order to re-enact his favorite film, he started kidnapping peoples about to leave the apartment by bashing them in the head, tied them and tossing them to his pick-up truck. Next, he rented an old warehouse so that he can bring all his victims in to fulfill his experiment. Due to the obsession of the Human Centipede movie lead actress, Ashlynn Yennie (as herself), Martin tricked her for a job role and kidnapped her as well. At one point after unable to stand to his mother abuse, Martin killed his mom by bash her head repeatedly and then proceed to lure his bully neighbor to kidnap him for the experiment. Once he has 12 victims, Martin began to operate on his victim using all household tools such as hammer, stapler, kitchen knifes, screw-drivers and etc. Martin began to pull the teeth of his victims by knocking their teeth using a hammer. Then, Martin began to severe the tendons by using a knife, pulling out the nerve and cutting it. Next, he decided to cut the buttock skins of the victims but due to the intense pain, one of the victim died and this forces Martin to improvise the operation by staple the mouth of the victims to the buttocks of the victims. All the operation was done with the victims fully awaken and this add to the gore of this scene. After the successful of implementing the human centipede, Martin then decided to test his subject by force feeding the first centipede and then injected a laxative syringe to all the centipede so that all the victims are able to eat the feces of each other. Another victim, a pregnant lady who was thought to be dead after Martin unintentionally bash her head to subdue her, woke up and decided to run for her life. While trying to escape in a car, she goes into labor inside the car and then driven away to escape from Martin. Due to this, Martin became enrage and decided to execute all his victims by shooting and severe their necks until Yennie's turn. She turns the table around by punching Martin, then took a centipede and stick it inside Martin's rectum, forcing him to scream in pain. While screaming, Martin stabbed Yennie in the face, leaving her dead while he escape from the warehouse. Then, the film ended with Martin watching the DVD of the original film at work, leaving viewers to think if the incident did actually happen or not.
Review:
This movie is a total opposite of the 1st movie with a good and simple storyline amid if you enjoy the whole black-white color movie. The lead actor, Laurence R. Harvey was excellent as a harmless in-front but mentally insane man named only as Martin. He doesn't talk much for the whole movie - heck! i think he doesn't talk much at all but his facial expression is enough to show us Martin's dark obsession which is the best performance in the movie. The black-white color thingy was said to enhanced the realistic and dark nature of the film but i would prefer the film to be in color especially when the gore and blood splatter in red rather than black. I was also anticipating the gore part of the movie - to be the highlight of the Centipede movie, but it was a little disappointed with lacking of the skirmish part although i read that director, Tom Six had many scenes chop-off due to censorship issue. Alas! can't wait for DVD release that has all these part intact. Although the skirmish part might satisfy numerous viewers as it has all the blood and shit stuff that was mysteriously not found in the 1st part, but i felt that the simplicity of the storyline is the weak point unlike the 1st part. The ending was a little disappointed ala The American Psycho where we are force to think what happen. Overall, i think the 1st part is much better than the 2nd part but the 2nd part does indeed able to stand on its own.
Verdict
I give this a 2.5 over 5 star
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