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| name = The Human Centipede 2<br>(Full Sequence) | name = The Human Centipede 2<br />(Full Sequence)
| image = Human Centipede 2 Poster.jpg | image = Human Centipede 2 Poster.jpg
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| caption = Theatrical release poster | caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = ] | director = ]
| producer = Tom Six<br>Ilona Six | producer = {{Plainlist|
* Tom Six
* Ilona Six
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| writer = Tom Six | writer = Tom Six
| starring = Laurence R. Harvey<br>] | starring = {{Plainlist|<!--Per poster billing-->
* ]
| music = ]<br/>Eilam Hoffman
* ]
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| music = ]
| cinematography = David Meadows | cinematography = David Meadows
| editing = | editing = Tom Six
| studio = Six Entertainment Company | studio = Six Entertainment Company
| distributor = {{Plainlist|
| distributor = Bounty Films {{nowrap|{{small|(United Kingdom)}}}}<br>] {{nowrap|{{small|(United States)}}}}<ref name="Kohn"> Accessed 2011-10-03.</ref>
* Bounty Films {{small|(United Kingdom)}}
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2011|09|22|Fantastic Fest|2011|10|07|United States}}<ref name="Yamato"> Accessed 2011-10-03.</ref>
* ] {{small|(United States)}}<ref name="Kohn"> Accessed 3 October 2011.</ref>
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| country = {{Film UK}}<br>{{Film Netherlands}}
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* 88 minutes {{small|(International version)}}
* 84 minutes {{small|(] cut)}}
* 91 minutes {{small|(Unrated director's cut)}}
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* United Kingdom
* Netherlands
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| language = English | language = English
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'''''The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)''''' is a 2011 British-Dutch ] film directed by Dutch filmmaker ]. The ] to 2010's Dutch film '']'', the film was scheduled for ]. It was originally banned in the ] by the ] because of its "revolting" content but was eventually granted an ] after over 32 cuts were made.


'''''The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)''''' is a 2011 ] ] film<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/human-centipede-2-full-sequence|title=THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) - British Board of Film Classification|website=Bbfc.co.uk|access-date=20 January 2018}}</ref> written, directed, and co-produced by ]. An international co-production of the Netherlands and the United States, and the ] to Six's 2009 film '']'', the film stars ] as a ] and ] 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 ] to each others ], including ], an actress from the first film.
The film was shot in ] and converted to ] in post-production. The film's antagonist, played by Laurence R. Harvey, has no dialogue except for a few laughs and moans.<ref name="Variety"> Accessed 2011-10-03.</ref> There is little dialogue in the film's second half, except for moans, screams, and whimpers.<ref name="Saucedo"> Accessed 2011-10-03.</ref>

''The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'' received substantial attention and controversy for its graphic depictions of ], ], forced ], and overall ]. It was subject to heavy ] 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== ==Plot==
In the ] of a ] in ], Martin Lomax is watching '']'', a film he is obsessed with, on his laptop. Short, ], ], and ], Martin lives in an unkempt ] with his ] mother, who blames him for having his father put in ] for physically, ], and ] Martin when he was a boy. Dr. Sebring, Martin's ], ] and prescribes him heavy medication. Martin keeps a pet ].
The film opens with the final moments of '']'', including the ]. The camera pulls back, to reveal that this is playing on a laptop computer, and a man in a toll booth in a parking garage is watching the film. Martin Lomax (Laurence R. Harvey) is an ]tic, ], ], middle-aged, short British man. He lives in a small flat with his emotionally abusive mother (Vivien Bridson) while working as a security guard in an underground parking garage. His neighbours play ] music at high levels all night and day, and Martin often spies on the rich individuals who use the parking garage. Dr. Sebring (Bill Hutchens) suspects that Martin was ] repeatedly by his father, now in ] (a suspicion confirmed when Martin has a ] to this abuse, in which the audience hears the father raping his son).


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 ] and ] to the sexual abuse he endured at the hands of his father. Mrs. Lomax remains resentful and apathetic towards Martin.
In a ] device, Martin is obsessed with ''The Human Centipede (First Sequence)'', watching it repeatedly at home and in his toll booth. At one point, he is depicted ] to the film with sandpaper wrapped around his penis. He keeps a centipede as a pet, and maintains a scrapbook on the film. When his mother destroys the scrapbook, Martin crushes her skull and then props her dead body up at the kitchen table. Martin wordlessly decides to recreate the fictional experiment he saw portrayed in ''The Human Centipede (First Sequence)''. Medically untrained, he assembles a potpourri of kitchen gadgets, woodworking tools, and assorted household items, puts them in a suitcase, and secures a dingy, dirty, dark abandoned warehouse to recreate the film's medical experiment. But Martin intends to create not just a three-person centipede, but the "full sequence" of 12 connected people.


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 ] with ]. Martin's mother finds and destroys his scrapbook in disgust after unsuccessfully attempting a ]. 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 ], Martin then lures his detested neighbour, Dick, to the scene, before shooting and kidnapping him.
Off-screen, he telephones the three actors from the first film, pretending to be ]'s casting agent, and tries to lure them to London. Only one, ] (portraying herself), does so. Most of the first hour of the film shows how Martin attacks, beats, and kidnaps his victims. Among his victims are a neighbour, a rental agent, and a rich man and his very pregnant wife. Once Martin has his victims, he severs the ]s in each person's legs (graphically and on-screen) to prevent them from fleeing. He uses a hammer to knock out their teeth one by one, putting his fingers in their blood-filled mouths to fish out their teeth so they will not swallow and choke on them in a suicide attempt. He slices open the buttocks of 11 of the victims (graphically depicted on screen), and then—lacking any surgical equipment—uses a ] to attach each person's face to the next person's anus. Martin chooses Yennie to be the front of the "human centipede", so she does not have to ]. When one of his victims dies from their wounds, Martin sobs softly. Along with this, the pregnant woman is presumed dead, so the centipede finally contains only ten people, instead of twelve.


Back at the tollbooth, Martin catches on one of the ]s Dr. Sebring and a cabbie having sex with a ]. Martin kills Sebring in a fit of rage and abducts the others. Martin's final victim is ], the actress who played Jenny in ''The Human Centipede'', whom Martin lures under false pretenses of being ]'s ].
Martin, who is clad only in his underwear throughout much of the latter portion of the film, becomes more and more sexually aroused by the desperation and travails of his "human centipede". He administers an excessive amount of ] to his creation (after a previous attempt to recreate the defecation scene from the 1st film fails), forcing each individual in the chain to explosively evacuate their bowels into the mouth of the person behind them. When one of his victims chokes to death on their own vomit, Martin again breaks down in tears.


Martin assembles his "centipede". Following his notes and sketches from ''The Human Centipede'', Martin severs the ]s in each person's knees to prevent them from fleeing and uses a hammer to knock out their teeth. However, Martin cuts into the ] of one victim too deeply, causing him to bleed to death. Instead of surgical tools, he uses a ] and ] 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, is ]; Martin places her in the corner. Martin's "human centipede" is ultimately ten people long with Ashlynn in front.
Unbeknownst to Martin, the pregnant woman, whom he believed had died, regains consciousness under a tarp next to another dead body. She bursts out of the tarp and runs, with blood gushing from her, outside screaming and leaps into a car, trying to start the engine. Martin chases after her and throws himself against the car's windows, unable to get in. At the same time, the pregnant woman goes into labour and births a child into the foot well. Immediately after, the engine turns on and she stomps on the accelerator, smashing her newborn's skull in the process. Martin is shown crying in rage. Meanwhile, the "centipede" splits in half as one of the victim rips his face from the person in front. Martin then heads back into the warehouse and shoots all the members of the centipede in rage until his gun runs out of ammo, then slices their necks with a kitchen knife. Yennie is the only member that remains alive. She punches him in the genitals then, in a fit of adrenalin-induced rage, grabs the funnel Martin used to force-feed her earlier, shoves it into Martin's rectum, grabs the centipede and sticks it inside. Yennie is then stabbed in the face by Martin and presumably dies. Martin is shown screaming as he tries to remove the centipede. As he staggers out the door, the camera focuses on the dead human centipede and Ashlynn Yennie is shown turning over of her own accord, possibly hinting that she survived.


Martin experiments by having his centipede walk around and ]s 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, which makes him inject each victim with a ], forcing them to uncontrollably and violently defecate into the mouth of the person behind them in a chain like reaction, causing each victim to swallow each other's excrement much to Martin’s excitement. He wraps his genitals in ] and rapes the woman at the back of the centipede. The pregnant woman awakens and runs outside screaming, in ]. She leaps into a victim's car and gives birth. When Martin pursues her, she stomps on the ], crushing her baby's skull in the process, and drives away.
The film ends with Martin watching the DVD of the original film at work, while a baby is heard crying in the background, leaving it ambiguous as to whether the events of the film were real or not.

Martin returns to the warehouse and finds that the centipede has separated into two halves. Furious that his centipede is ruined, Martin executes the victims. As he hesitates to kill Ashlynn, she punches him in the crotch and shoves the ] into his ], 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== ==Cast==
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* Laurence R. Harvey as Martin Lomax<ref name = "bloody disgusting thc2 cast">{{citation | url = http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/24864 | title = Find Out Who Will Assemble the 12-Person 'Human Centipede'; Full Casting!!! | author = Mr Disgusting | work = ] | date = 2011-06-07 | accessdate = 2011-06-28}}</ref>
* ] as Martin Lomax, a short, fat, ], and mentally challenged man in his 40s who becomes obsessed with ''First Sequence''.<ref name = "bloody disgusting thc2 cast">{{citation | url = https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/24864 | title = Find Out Who Will Assemble the 12-Person 'Human Centipede'; Full Casting!!! | first=Brad | last=Miska | work=] | date = 7 June 2011 | access-date = 28 June 2011}}</ref> Martin does not actually have any dialogue in the film except for a few laughs and moans.<ref name=Variety>{{cite web|last=Koehler|first=Robert|title=Review: "The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)"|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/reviews/the-human-centipede-ii-full-sequence-1117946265/|work=Variety|date=29 September 2011|access-date=3 October 2011}}</ref>
* ] as herself
* ] as Miss Yennie / Human centipede No. 1<!-- She is credited in the film as Miss Yennie, not herself. -->: Martin captures Yennie by flying her over from America thinking she was auditioning for a ] film. She plays as a fictionalized version of herself and is in the front of the centipede.
* Alec Iverson as the head
* Maddi Black as Candy / Human centipede No. 2, a ] who is kidnapped by Martin while performing oral sex on Dr. Sebring. She is placed behind Ashlynn and is forced to digest her feces.
* Alec Iverson as the rear
* 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 swallow her excrement.
* Dominic Borrelli as Paul
* Dominic Borrelli as Paul / Human centipede No. 4, an overweight cab driver that buys a prostitute for himself and Dr. Sebring, but is taken by Martin along with the prostitute. He is placed behind Karrie and is forced to swallow her excrement.
* Vivien Bridson as Mrs. Lomax
* Lucas Hansen as Ian / Human centipede No. 5, an aggressive young man that lives in the building. He is placed behind Paul and is forced to digest his feces.
* Lee Harris as Dick
* Lee Nicholas Harris as Dick / Human centipede No. 6, the 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 feces.
* Peter Blankenstein as Alan
* 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 eat his diarrhea.
* Bill Hutchens as Dr. Sebring
* 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 swallow his feces.
* Dan Burman as Greg
* 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 Greg and is forced to digest his diarrhea.
* Daniel Jude Gennis as Tim
* Emma Lock as Kim / Human centipede No. 10: The girlfriend of Ian. She is behind Valerie and serves as the functioning anus of the centipede. She is forced to swallow Valerie’s diarrhea.
* Kandace Caine as Karrie
* 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.
* Maddi Black as Candy
* 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.
* Lucas Hansen as Ian
* ] as Dr. Sebring, Martin's psychiatrist.
* Georgia Goodrick as Valerie
* Vivien Bridson as Mrs. Lomax, Martin's mother.
* Emma Lock as Kim
* 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.
* Hugo Sampson as Oscar
{{div col end}}
* Tom Six as the voice of Mr. Lomax


==Production== ==Production==
Director ] stated in 2010 that he was working on a ] to '']'', and a possible third film depending upon its success.<ref name = "bloody disgusting tom six video interview">{{citation | url = http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20023 | title = Tom Six Answers YOUR Questions About 'The Human Centipede' | author = Mr Disgusting | work = ] | date = 2010-04-29 | accessdate = 2010-05-08}}</ref> He said that the plot would follow on from the first film, but with a centipede made from twelve people as opposed to the three victims of the first film. The tag-line would be "''100% medically inaccurate''", in contrast to his "100% medically ''accurate''" claim for the first film. Tom Six claimed the sequel would be much more graphic and disturbing, making the first film seem like "'']'' compared with part two."<ref name = "'guardian film weekly tom six interview">{{citation | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/audio/2010/aug/19/film-weekly-human-centipede-pianomania | title = Film Weekly hooks up with The Human Centipede and experiences Pianomania | author = Jason Solomons | work = ] | date = 2010-08-19 | accessdate = 2010-09-08}}</ref> Director ] stated in 2010 that he was working on a sequel to '']'', as well as a possible third film depending upon its success.<ref name = "bloody disgusting tom six video interview">{{citation | url = https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/20023 | title = Tom Six Answers YOUR Questions About 'The Human Centipede' | first=Brad | last=Miska | work=] | date = 29 April 2010 | access-date = 8 May 2010}}</ref> 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 "'']'' compared with part two."<ref name = "'guardian film weekly tom six interview">{{citation | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/audio/2010/aug/19/film-weekly-human-centipede-pianomania | title = Film Weekly hooks up with The Human Centipede and experiences Pianomania | author=Jason Solomons |work=The Guardian |location=London | date = 19 August 2010 | access-date = 8 September 2010 }}</ref>


Speculation regarding the plot of ''Full Sequence'' grew after the ] convention in May 2010, when ] and ], who had starred in ''First Sequence'' hinted that their characters, despite their deaths in ''First Sequence'', might be returning for the sequel.<ref name = "dreadcentral-weekend-of-horrors-may-2010">{{citation | url = http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/37690/weekend-horrors-ashlynn-yenni-and-akimura-kitamura-return-the-human-centipede-ii | title = Weekend of Horrors: Ashlynn Yenni and Akimura Kitamura Return for The Human Centipede II | author = SeanD | work = Dread Central | date = 2010-05-25 | accessdate = 2011-01-05}}</ref> 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 England, which led to speculation from FEARnet that she would be reprising the role of Lindsay from the first film.<ref name = "fearnet-lindsay-speculation">{{citation | title = Part of 'The Human Centipede' Returning for Full Sequence? | url = http://www.fearnet.com/news/interviews/b20169_part_of_human_centipede_returning_full.html | author = Sara Castillo | work = ] | date = 2010-09-13 | accessdate=2011-01-05}}</ref> In a further interview, Ashlynn Yennie confirmed Six's claims that the sequel will contain "the blood and shit" which viewers did not see in the first film.<ref name = "dreadcentral-weekend-of-horrors-may-2010" /> Speculation regarding the plot of ''Full Sequence'' grew after the ] convention in May 2010, when ] and ], who had starred in ''First Sequence'', hinted that their characters might return for the sequel despite their deaths in ''First Sequence''.<ref name = "dreadcentral-weekend-of-horrors-may-2010">{{citation | url = https://dreadcentral.com/news/37690/weekend-horrors-ashlynn-yenni-and-akimura-kitamura-return-the-human-centipede-ii | title = Weekend of Horrors: Ashlynn Yenni and Akimura Kitamura Return for The Human Centipede II | author=SeanD | work=Dread Central | date = 25 May 2010 | access-date = 5 January 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref name = "fearnet-lindsay-speculation">{{citation | title = Part of 'The Human Centipede' Returning for Full Sequence? | url = http://www.fearnet.com/news/interviews/b20169_part_of_human_centipede_returning_full.html | author=Sara Castillo | work=] | date = 13 September 2010 | access-date=5 January 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref name = "dreadcentral-weekend-of-horrors-may-2010" />


Six was inspired to make the movie a ] after reporters kept asking him if he worried about people committing ] inspired by the first film.<ref name="Threefinal">{{cite web|last1=Sneider|first1=Jeff|title='Human Centipede' Director Tom Six Takes on Censorship, Critics: 'I Like the People Who Hate It'|url=https://thewrap.com/human-centipede-director-tom-six-takes-on-censorship-critics-i-like-the-people-who-hate-it/|website=The Wrap|date=22 May 2015 |access-date=11 February 2016}}</ref> Although he had previously considered the concept for a possible sequel, the questions cemented his idea.<ref name="Threefinal"/>
Filming for ''Full Sequence'' began in ] in June 2010 with a largely British cast.<ref name = "bloody disgusting sequel news 20-04-10">{{citation | url = http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/19903 | title = 12 Man Creature in 'The Human Centipede: Full Sequence'! | author = Mr Disgusting | work = ] | date = 2010-04-20 | accessdate = 2010-05-08}}</ref> 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.<ref name="sequel-trailer">{{citation | title = Exclusive Premiere: The Teaser Trailer for "The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)" | url = http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/09/human-centipede-2.php | work = ] | author = Matt Singer | accessdate=2010-09-25}}</ref>


According to Six, he intentionally made ''Full Sequence'' very different from ''First Sequence'', due to two reasons. First, back when he was writing the script of ''First Sequence'', he knew people would want more "blood and shit" than is shown, and second, the two parts reflect the two different characters of their protagonists: the coloured ''First Sequence'', with a slow-moving camera, fitted 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" in black and white.<ref name="collider.com">{{citation | url = http://collider.com/tom-six-laurence-harvey-human-centipede-2-interview/118452/ | title = Fantastic Fest 2011: Tom Six and Laurence Harvey Interview THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2: FULL SEQUENCE | author = Scott Wampler| work = Collider.com | date = 2011-10-03 | accessdate = 2011-10-25}}</ref> 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.<ref name="collider.com">{{citation | url = https://collider.com/tom-six-laurence-harvey-human-centipede-2-interview/118452/ | title = Fantastic Fest 2011: Tom Six and Laurence Harvey Interview THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2: FULL SEQUENCE | first=Scott | last=Wampler| work=] | date = 3 October 2011 | access-date = 25 October 2011}}</ref> It was also Six's idea to have little dialogue in the film's second half, except for moans, screams, and whimpers.<ref name="Saucedo"> Accessed 3 October 2011.</ref>

] for ''Full Sequence'' began in London in June 2010 with a largely British cast.<ref name = "bloody disgusting sequel news 20-04-10">{{citation | url = https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/19903 | title = 12 Man Creature in 'The Human Centipede: Full Sequence'! | first=Brad | last=Miska | work=] | date = 20 April 2010 | access-date = 8 May 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref name="sequel-trailer">{{citation | title = Exclusive Premiere: The Teaser Trailer for "The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)" | url = http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/09/human-centipede-2.php | work = ] | author = Matt Singer | access-date = 25 September 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100925230700/http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/09/human-centipede-2.php | archive-date = 25 September 2010 | url-status = dead }}</ref>


==Release== ==Release==
===Classification refusal in United Kingdom===
In June 2011, the ] (BBFC) refused to classify ''The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'' for a ] release, effectively meaning that the film could not legally be supplied in any format in the UK.<ref name = "guardian thc2 banned">{{citation | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/06/human-centipede-sequel-bbfc | title = The Human Centipede sequel just too horrible to show, says BBFC | author = Catherine Shoard | work = ] | date = 2011-06-06 | accessdate = 2011-06-06}}</ref> The BBFC had given the preceding ''First Sequence'' title an ].<ref name = "ifc news thc2 banned">{{citation | url = http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/06/human-centipede-2-banned-in-britain.php | title = "The Human Centipede Part 2" Banned in Britain | author = Matt Slinger | work = ] | date = 2011-06-06 | accessdate = 2011-07-06}}</ref> The board stated that they had considered ''First Sequence'' to be "undoubtedly tasteless and disgusting",<ref name = "guardian thc2 banned blog entry">{{citation | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/jun/07/human-centipede-sequel-ban-sexual-sadism | title = The Human Centipede sequel: no sexual sadism please, we're British | author = David Cox | work = ] | date = 2011-07-06 | accessdate = 2011-07-06}}</ref> but deemed it acceptable for release because the "centipede" was the product of a "revolting medical experiment".<ref name = "guardian thc2 banned blog entry" /> They had also taken legal advice that ''First Sequence'' was not in breach of the ].<ref name = "BBFC THC1 classification">{{citation | url = http://www.bbfc.co.uk/AFV270051/ | title = The Human Centipede (First Sequence) - Extended Classification Information | date = 2010-08-20 | accessdate = 2011-07-06 | work = ]}}</ref>


===United States===
By contrast, the BBFC report on ''Full Sequence'' stated that the film's content was too extreme for an 18 certificate and was "sexually violent and potentially obscene".<ref name = "Total Film - Human Centipede II banned">{{citation | url = http://www.totalfilm.com/news/human-centipede-ii-banned-by-bbfc | title = Human Centipede 2 banned by the BBFC | work = ] | date = 2011-06-06 | accessdate = 2011-06-06}}</ref> The board members felt that the centipede of ''Full Sequence'' existed purely as "the object of the protagonist's depraved sexual fantasy".<ref name = "guardian thc2 banned blog entry" /> They criticised the film for making "little attempt to portray any of the victims… as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience"<ref name = "BBFC banning thc2 press release">{{citation | url = http://www.bbfc.co.uk/newsreleases/2011/06/bbfc-rejects-the-human-centipede-ii-full-sequence/ | title = BBFC rejects The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) | date = 2011-06-06 | accessdate = 2011-06-06 | work = ]}}</ref> and stated their opinion that the film was potentially in breach of the Obscene Publications Act.<ref name = "guardian thc2 banned" /> The BBFC stated that they would not reclassify the film in future, as "no amount of cuts would allow them to give it a certificate".<ref name = "guardian thc2 banned" />
The film had its United States ] at ] in ], on 22 September 2011.<ref name="Yamato" /> The film's distributor, ], gave audience members complimentary ] at the screening,<ref name="Yamato" /> and stationed an ambulance outside the theater as a ].<ref name="Kohn" /> However, one audience member became so physically ill during the premiere that paramedics had to assist her.<ref name="Kohn" />


The film began a ] in the United States on 7 October 2011.<ref>{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Accessed 3 October 2011.</ref> It was released unrated and only had ]. The film was released in an "unrated ]" on ] and ] on 14 February 2012;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/human-centipede-ii-full-sequence.html|title=News: Human Centipede II: Full Sequence (US DVD R1 {{!}} BD RA) – DVDActive|date=4 January 2012|work=DVDActive|access-date=13 January 2012}}</ref> the film runs a total 91 minutes.
Director Tom Six responded to the BBFC's decision in a statement released the next day to '']'' magazine. Six criticised the BBFC for including film spoilers in their report, and stated that the film was "...fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. It is art..." and that viewers should be able to choose for themselves whether or not they decided to view the film.<ref name = "nme thc2 banned tom six response">{{citation | url = http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/human-centipede-director-hits-back-at-bbfc-ban/217733 | title = 'Human Centipede' director hits back at BBFC ban | author = Matt Slinger | work = ] | date = 2011-07-06 | accessdate = 2011-07-06}}</ref> Six also referred to the BBFC's refusal to classify the film as "exceptional".<ref name = "nme thc2 banned tom six response" /><ref name = "guardian tom six criticises bbfc">{{citation | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/07/human-centipede-2-ban-tom-six-spoilers | title = Human Centipede 2 director criticises BBFC over rejection | author = Catherine Shoard | work = ] | date = 2011-06-07 | accessdate = 2011-06-08}}</ref>


A full-colour version of the film was released for the first time in the United States on 27 October 2015, exclusively on ''The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence'' Blu-ray set.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3362742/the-human-centipede-the-complete-sequence-coming-to-blu-ray/|title='The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence' Coming to Blu-ray |last=Barkan |first=Jonathan |date=23 September 2015|website=Bloody Disgusting|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref>
In October 2011, the ] granted the film an ] after 32 compulsory cuts totalling 2 minutes and 37 seconds were made. The cuts included: Martin masturbating with sandpaper around his penis; graphic sight of a man's teeth being removed with a hammer; graphic sight of lips being stapled to naked buttocks; graphic sight of forced defecation into and around other victims' mouths; Martin with barbed wire wrapped around his penis violently raping a woman; a newborn baby being killed; and the graphic sight of injury as staples are torn away from individuals' mouths and buttocks.<ref name = "bbfc passes human centipede with cuts">{{citation | url = http://bestforfilm.com/film-news/the-human-centipede-ii-is-passed-for-uk-release/ | title = The Human Centipede II is passed for UK release | author = John Underwood | work = ''Best For Film'' | date = 2011-10-07 | accessdate = 2011-10-07}}</ref>


In April 2016, a Tennessee high school teacher was suspended after the film was played during class. Tom Six responded by tweeting "It should be mandatory to watch THC2 in school classes...It deals with a character that is bullied and what to do!" Six also said that he would be giving the teacher an autographed copy of the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/2016/04/29/human-centipede-2-high-school|title=Teacher suspended for showing high school class Human Centipede 2|website=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=20 January 2018}}</ref>
===Classification refusal in Australia===
In Australia, the film was originally granted an ] rating;<ref name = "australia r18plus rating">{{citation | url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/movie-ratings-miss-their-targets/story-e6frg8n6-1226088381761 | title = Movie ratings miss their targets | author = Michael Bodey | work = ] | date = 2011-07-06 | accessdate = 2011-07-27}}</ref> however, this was later overruled after Minister for Justice ] asked for a review of the rating. On November 28, 2011, the film was reviewed and by unanimous decision of a three-person board, refused classification.<ref>http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(9A5D88DBA63D32A661E6369859739356)~CRB+-+Media+Release+-+HC+II+-+RC+-+28+Nov+2011.pdf/$file/CRB+-+Media+Release+-+HC+II+-+RC+-+28+Nov+2011.pdf</ref> Conservative Christian groups (including Collective Shout, responsible for calling for a review of the original R18+ rating for '']'') and Family Voice Australia acclaimed the decision.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://refused-classification.com/censorship/films/human-centipede-2-full-sequence-2011.html|title=Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence (2011)|publisher=Refused-Classification.com|accessdate=December 2, 2011}}</ref>


=== Censorship ===
Following the film's ban on review, Australian applicant Monster Pictures announced its plans to submit a modified version for classification on December 9, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.crikey.com.au/cinetology/2011/12/07/the-human-centipede-ii-to-be-resubmitted-to-the-classification-review-board/|title=Human Centipede 2 to be resubmitted for classification|publisher=]|accessdate=December 9, 2011}}</ref>
==== United Kingdom ====
In June 2011, the ] (BBFC) refused to classify ''The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'' for a ] release, effectively meaning that the film could not legally be supplied in any format in the UK.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://bbfc.co.uk/about-bbfc/media-centre/bbfc-rejects-human-centipede-ii-full-sequence|title=BBFC rejects THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE II (FULL SEQUENCE) |publisher=British Board of Film Classification|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> The BBFC had given the preceding ''First Sequence'' title an ].<ref name=":0" /> The Board stated that they had considered ''First Sequence'' to be "undoubtedly tasteless and disgusting",<ref name=":0" /> but deemed it acceptable for release because the "centipede" was the product of a "revolting medical experiment".<ref name=":0" /> By contrast, the BBFC report on ''Full Sequence'' stated that the film's content was too extreme for an 18 certificate and was "sexually violent, and potentially obscene".<ref name=":0" /> The board members felt that the centipede of ''Full Sequence'' existed purely as "the object of the protagonist's depraved sexual fantasy".<ref name=":0" /> They criticised the film for making "little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised and degraded for the amusement and sexual arousal of the main character and for the pleasure of the viewer",<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/human-centipede-2-full-sequence|title=The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) |publisher=British Board of Film Classification|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> and stated their opinion that the film was potentially in breach of the ].<ref name=":1" /> The BBFC initially suggested that cutting the film would not affect the decision, "as the unacceptable material featured throughout".<ref name=":1" />


Tom Six responded to the BBFC's decision in a statement released the next day:
===United States release===
The film had its United States ] at ] in ], on September 22, 2011.<ref name="Yamato" /> The film's distributor, ], gave audience members complimentary ] at the screening,<ref name="Yamato" /> and stationed an ambulance outside the theater as a ].<ref name="Kohn" /> However, one audience member became so physically ill during the premiere that real paramedics had to assist her.<ref name="Kohn" />


{{quote|Thank you BBFC for putting spoilers of my movie on your website and thank you for banning my film in this exceptional way. Apparently I made an {{sic}} horrific horror-film, but shouldn't a good horror film be horrific? My dear people it is a fucking MOVIE. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief {{sic}}. It is art. Give people their own choice to watch it or not. If people can't handle or like my movies they just don't watch them. If people like my movies they have to be able to see it any time, anywhere also in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/human-centipede-ii-rejected-bbfc/|title=Human Centipede II Rejected By BBFC|last=O'Hara|first=Helen|date=2011-06-07|website=]|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref>}}
The film received a United States ] on October 7, 2011.<ref> Accessed 2011-10-03.</ref> It was released unrated and only had ].

Eureka Entertainment, the film's UK distributor, issued a statement criticising the ban, echoing Six's sentiments about the revelation of plot details in the BBFC's report, and announcing their intention to appeal to the ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.starburstmagazine.com/news-why-the-bbfc-dont-want-you-to-see-human-centipede-2|title=News: Why The BBFC Don't Want You To See HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 With Response From Distributors |last=Heys|first=Kris|date=2011-06-07|work=Starburst Magazine|access-date=2018-08-28|language=en-GB}}</ref>

In October 2011, the BBFC ultimately granted the film an ] for "very strong bloody violence and gore, and sexual violence" after 32 compulsory cuts were made, totalling 2 minutes and 37 seconds.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/human-centipede-ii-full-sequence|title=The Human Centipede Ii (Full Sequence) |publisher=British Board of Film Classification|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> ], president of the BBFC, stated:

{{quote|When we first examined this work earlier this year we judged that, as submitted, it was unsuitable for classification; and, as we explained to the company, we could not ourselves see how cuts could produce a viable and classifiable work. That remains the view of one of our Vice Presidents, Gerard Lemos, who is therefore abstaining from the Board's collective decision. The company lodged an appeal against our decision to refuse classification. In the course of preparations for that appeal, the company proposed a number of cuts which it was right for us to consider. In response, after further examination, we proposed a more extensive series of cuts. These cuts produce a work which many will find difficult but which I believe can properly be classified at the adult level. The company has now accepted these cuts, withdrawn its appeal and the work has been classified, as cut, at 18.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/about-bbfc/media-centre/bbfc-has-awarded-18-classification-cut-version-human-centipede-ii|title=The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has awarded an '18' classification to a cut version of THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE II (FULL SEQUENCE), following 32 cuts |publisher=British Board of Film Classification|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref>}}

The sales director of Eureka Entertainment supported the decision, stating:

{{quote|We are really pleased that after nearly four months of detailed discussion and debate, we have been able to reach an agreement with the BBFC and to produce a very viable cut of the film which will both excite and challenge its fans. Naturally we have a slight disappointment that we have had to make cuts, but we feel that the storyline has not been compromised and the level of horror has been sustained.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/06/human-centipede-2-18-classification|title=Human Centipede 2 wins certificate 18 classification from British censors|last=Shoard|first=Catherine|date=2011-10-06|website=]|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref>}}

====Australia and New Zealand====
In May 2011, the uncut film was originally granted an ] classification by the ] (ACB).<ref name=":2" /> However, this decision was later overruled after Minister for Justice ] asked for a review of the rating by the ]. On 28 November 2011, the film was reviewed and by unanimous decision of a three-person board, refused classification.<ref name=":2">{{cite press release |title=The Human Centipede II (full sequence) classified RC upon review |publisher=Classification Review Board |date=28 November 2011 |url=http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/%289A5D88DBA63D32A661E6369859739356%29~CRB+-+Media+Release+-+HC+II+-+RC+-+28+Nov+2011.pdf/$file/CRB+-+Media+Release+-+HC+II+-+RC+-+28+Nov+2011.pdf|access-date=11 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215232003/http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(9A5D88DBA63D32A661E6369859739356)~CRB+-+Media+Release+-+HC+II+-+RC+-+28+Nov+2011.pdf/$file/CRB+-+Media+Release+-+HC+II+-+RC+-+28+Nov+2011.pdf |archive-date=15 December 2011}}</ref>

Several groups and individuals, including ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://christiantoday.com.au/news/human-centipede-movie-ban-welcomed-by-pro-family-organisation.html|title=Human Centipede movie ban welcomed by pro-family organisation|website=Christian Today|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> Collective Shout<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-centipede-banned-by-special-request-20111209-1onpg.html|title=A centipede banned, by special request|date=2011-12-09|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> and ], the ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sydneycatholic.org/people/archbishop/stc/2011//20111211_137.shtml|title=Sensible Decision|last=Pell|first=George|author-link=Cardinal George Pell|date=2012-11-01|website=www.sydneycatholic.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101120309/http://www.sydneycatholic.org/people/archbishop/stc/2011//20111211_137.shtml|archive-date=2012-11-01|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> welcomed the decision. Monster Pictures, the Australian distributor of the film, criticised the decision and announced their intention to re-edit and re-submit the film for review.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://monsterpictures.com.au/blog/2011/12/01/press-release-thc2-banned/|title=Press Release: THC2 Banned!|publisher=Monster Pictures|date=2011-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205020916/http://monsterpictures.com.au/blog/2011/12/01/press-release-thc2-banned/|archive-date=5 December 2011|url-status=live|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref>

On 13 December 2011, the ACB classified a modified version of the film at R18+ for "high impact themes, violence and sexual violence".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=KFQ47H6qP09ljVU0PbElVA%253d%253d&ncdctx=vvtTWKUX7U5Zhy%252fu7ad03qbu+exvKd1sJL2Yn4EZmeCW0Cu1iBJsbbsQsfDx1LfXtxLrEWlQceXYBwhYzJ4B1Q%253d%253d|title=The Human Centipede Ii (Full Sequence) |publisher=Australian Classification|language=en-au|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> Monster Pictures expressed their "delight", and clarified that thirty seconds of the film had been "modified".<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://screenanarchy.com/2011/12/the-human-centipede-2-full-sequence-delightfully-disgusts-australian-cinemagoers-again.html|title=THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 FULL SEQUENCE delightfully disgusts Australian cinemagoers again!|last=Bellette|first=Kwenton|date=2011-12-14|work=ScreenAnarchy|access-date=2018-08-28|language=en-US}}</ref> They concluded that "this decision highlights the absurdity of Classification Review Board's decision to ban the film in the first place."<ref name=":3" />

Due to the reaction by Australian film authorities, the film was not submitted for theatrical distribution in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10770146 | work=The New Zealand Herald | first=Chris | last=Schulz | title='Gratuitous' Human Centipede 2 won't screen here | date=1 December 2011}}</ref> However, in April 2012, the DVD version was classified as "objectionable" (banned) by the ].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)|url=http://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/DDA/Pages/Screens/DDA/WarningPage.aspx|website=NZ Register of Classification Decisions|publisher=NZ Office of Film & Literature Classification. Publication Number 1200206.000|access-date=26 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207084426/http://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/DDA/Pages/Screens/DDA/WarningPage.aspx|archive-date=7 February 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==Reception== ==Reception==
===Box office===
As of December 3, 2011, the film had garnered negative reviews; it currently has a rating of 30% at ] based on 69 reviews,<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|the_human_centipede_ii|The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)}}</ref> and 17 out of 100 at ] from 22 reviews.<ref>{{metacritic film|the-human-centipede-ii-full-sequence|The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)}}</ref>
''The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'' opened at 45th place with $49,456, for an average of $2,748, in the 18 theaters where it premiered. With four theaters added the next weekend, the film dropped a modest 29.9% with $34,679. Its third weekend saw a 56.2% drop despite having two more theaters added. However, in its fourth weekend, the film lost 12 theaters, causing a 61.9% drop ($5,792). In its final weekend, it grossed $2,267, putting the movie's resting spot at No. 95 for the weekend.<ref>{{cite news|last=Musetto|first=V A|title=Inhuman attachment|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=humancentipede2.htm|publisher=]|access-date=12 October 2011|date=18 October 2012}}</ref>


The film grossed $5,824 in ] and $1,511 in the United Kingdom. Released in ] in April 2012, the horror picture grossed $21,111 there. At the end of its run, the film made $141,877, about half of what the previous installment had grossed.
Giving the film a score of 7 out of 10, '']'' writer Brad Miska said the film was a "brilliant response to critics of his first film. It makes a strong statement that it's just a movie and that people take his work way too seriously, while also implementing a unique concept". Miska added that he "found it an intensely engaging and absolutely hilarious meta experience that gets its point across with flying colors", but was critical of the script's lack of depth.<ref name="bloody disgusting thc 2 review">{{cite web|last=Miska|first=Brad|title=Review: The Human Centipede Part 2 (Full Sequence) (limited)|url=http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/4823/review|work=]|publisher=The Collective|accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref> '']'' writer Owen Gleiberman gave the film a B+ rating, stating that viewers "may feel gripped by the horror of what you're seeing and the terror of what's coming". Gleiberman noted how "The scatological climax would have the Marquis de Sade gagging into his popcorn."<ref name="EW THC 2 review">{{cite web|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|title=Movie Review: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20534454,00.html|work=]|publisher=]|accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref> Writing in the '']'', V. A. Musetto gave the film 3 out of 4 and said ''Full Sequence'' "is sick, disgusting and vile. (but) It’s also demonically funny, stylish and ingenious."<ref name="nyp thc 2 review">{{cite web|last=Musetto|first=V A|title=Inhuman attachment|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/inhuman_attachment_X6W2IGCw3GrikUB13I23xN?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=|work=]|publisher=]|accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref>


===Critical response===
Jen Yamato, writing for ''Movieline'', criticized the film's excessive gore and the way director Tom Six seemed to dislike his own audience. "It’s not really a film one can or should 'enjoy', which is what Six seems to be telling his own audience, the fans who giggled through ''The Human Centipede'' and demanded more! Gorier! More extreme! Well, those people will get what they asked for."<ref name="Yamato" /> Eric Kohn, writing for ''indieWire'', criticized the excessive grotesqueness of the film as well as Six's vanity. "Well, what if it turns someone's own body against them—is that a measure of success? To some degree, yes; it's designed to turn the tables on its own gore-hungry fans by depicting a fictionalized version of one of their own so revolting they think twice about their twisted tendencies. But it's so indulgently perverse, and so viscerally disturbing to watch—not to mention a painfully vain exercise in self-worship—that the lesson is incredibly hard-won. Take a word of warning, if you're on the fence; you don't have to see ''The Human Centipede II'' to know you don't want to see it."<ref name="Kohn" />
The film has a rating of 29% at ] based on 83 reviews, with a ] of 3.28/10. The site's consensus reads: "''The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)'' attempts to weave in social commentary but as the movie wears on, it loses its ability to repulse and shock and ends up obnoxious and annoying."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|the_human_centipede_ii|The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)}} Accessed 27 March 2020.</ref> At ], it rates 17 out of 100, indicating "overwhelming dislike", based on 22 reviews.<ref>{{Metacritic film|title=The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)}}</ref>


Giving it a score of 7 out of 10, '']'' writer Brad Miska said the film was a "brilliant response to critics of his first film. It makes a strong statement that it's just a movie and that people take his work way too seriously, while also implementing a unique concept". Miska added that he "found it an intensely engaging and absolutely hilarious meta experience that gets its point across with flying colors", but was critical of the script's lack of depth.<ref name="bloody disgusting thc 2 review">{{cite web|last=Miska|first=Brad|title=Review: The Human Centipede Part 2 (Full Sequence) (limited)|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/film/4823/review|work=]|publisher=The Collective|access-date=12 October 2011}}</ref> '']'' writer Owen Gleiberman gave the film a B+ rating, stating that viewers "may feel gripped by the horror of what you're seeing and the terror of what's coming". Gleiberman noted how "The scatological climax would have the Marquis de Sade gagging into his popcorn."<ref name="EW THC 2 review">{{cite magazine|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|title=Movie Review: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)|url=https://ew.com/ew/article/0,,20534454,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007004336/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20534454,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 October 2011|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=12 October 2011|date=12 October 2011}}</ref> Writing in the '']'', V. A. Musetto gave the film 3 out of 4 and said ''Full Sequence'' "is sick, disgusting and vile. (but) It's also demonically funny, stylish and ingenious."<ref name="nyp thc 2 review">{{cite news|last=Musetto|first=V A|title=Inhuman attachment|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/inhuman_attachment_X6W2IGCw3GrikUB13I23xN?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=|work=The New York Post|access-date=12 October 2011|date=7 October 2011}}</ref>
Some reviewers found the extreme nature of the film boring. Robert Koehler, writing for '']'', found the gore so excessive it was boring and a form of lazy filmmaking. "More boring than stomach-churning, the film nevertheless contains scattered scenes and sequences so far beyond the tolerance of the squeamish that it can't be overstated; one, detailing the violent birth and death of a baby, is here simply to shock the most jaded of the jaded," he wrote.<ref name="Variety" />


Jen Yamato, writing for ''Movieline'', criticized the film's excessive gore and the way director Tom Six seemed to dislike his own audience, specifying "It's not really a film one can or should 'enjoy', which is what Six seems to be telling his own audience, the fans who giggled through ''The Human Centipede'' and demanded more! Gorier! More extreme! Well, those people will get what they asked for."<ref name="Yamato" /> Eric Kohn, writing for ''indieWire'', criticized the excessive grotesqueness of the film as well as Six's vanity. He stated, "Well, what if it turns someone's own body against them—is that a measure of success? To some degree, yes; it's designed to turn the tables on its own gore-hungry fans by depicting a fictionalized version of one of their own so revolting they think twice about their twisted tendencies. But it's so indulgently perverse, and so viscerally disturbing to watch—not to mention a painfully vain exercise in self-worship—that the lesson is incredibly hard-won. Take a word of warning, if you're on the fence; you don't have to see ''The Human Centipede II'' to know you don't want to see it."<ref name="Kohn" />
Reviewer Robert Saucedo of InsidePulse.com was more generous toward the film, but found its execution lacking. "The film … has a hint of intelligence hiding behind its beady little eyes. Smeared with blood and poo as it may be, this intelligence exposes a film that has something to say. The problem, unfortunately, is that director Tom Six is like a child — attempting to make a profound statement but unable to get it out eloquently or even in anything not resembling a whimper or a groan most of the time. … Who would have guessed? ''Human Centipede II'' is a treatise about horror fandom as delivered by a giggling, poop-infatuated toddler."<ref name="Saucedo" />


Some reviewers found the extreme nature of the film boring. Robert Koehler, writing for '']'', found the gore so excessive that he termed it a form of lazy filmmaking. "More boring than stomach-churning, the film nevertheless contains scattered scenes and sequences so far beyond the tolerance of the squeamish that it can't be overstated; one, detailing the violent birth and death of a baby, is here simply to shock the most jaded of the jaded".<ref name="Variety" />
Mark Olsen, film critic for the '']'' expressed concern over the film's conclusion as well as its basic premise. The conclusion (which he admits is open to interpretation; did Lomax commit these crimes or not?) leaves the audience either believing that the film is a "cop-out repudiation of everything that has come prior" or that even more graphic torture is coming in the third film.<ref name="Olsen"> Accessed 2011-10-07.</ref> Regardless, Olsen concluded that writer-director Six has left himself with no good option for the third film. He concluded his review:<ref name="Olsen" />
{{blockquote|"With this punkish response film, Six has in essence backed himself into a rhetorical corner, leaving as perhaps the only option for his next stunt something in which the filmmaker Tom Six winds up with his mouth surgically attached to his own anus. Except that with the preening, aggrandizing self-referentiality of ''The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)'' Six has more or less already contorted himself into The Human ]."}}


Reviewer Robert Saucedo of InsidePulse.com was more generous toward the film, but found its execution lacking. He wrote, "The film ... has a hint of intelligence hiding behind its beady little eyes. Smeared with blood and poo as it may be, this intelligence exposes a film that has something to say. The problem, unfortunately, is that director Tom Six is like a child – attempting to make a profound statement but unable to get it out eloquently or even in anything not resembling a whimper or a groan most of the time ... Who would have guessed? ''Human Centipede II'' is a treatise about horror fandom as delivered by a giggling, poop-infatuated toddler."<ref name="Saucedo" />
Roger Ebert, who did not assign a star rating to the original, gave this film zero stars on review.<ref name="Ebert"> Accessed 2011-12-05.</ref>

Mark Olsen, film critic for the '']'', expressed concern over the film's conclusion as well as its basic premise. The conclusion (which he admits is open to interpretation; did Lomax commit these crimes or not?) leaves the audience either believing that the film is a "cop-out repudiation of everything that has come prior" or that even more graphic torture is coming in the third film.<ref name="Olsen">Olsen, Mark (7 October 2011). . ''Los Angeles Times.'' Accessed 7 October 2011.</ref> Regardless, Olsen concluded that writer-director Six has left himself with no good option for the third film.

], of the '']'', who did not assign a star rating to the original, gave this film zero stars on review, calling it "reprehensible, dismaying, ugly, artless and an affront to any notion, however remote, of human decency".<ref name="Ebert">Ebert, Roger (7 October 2011). . ''Chicago Sun-Times.'' Retrieved 29 January 2012.</ref> He would later name it the worst movie of 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebertpresents.com/episodes/episode-224/videos/370|title=Roger, Christy, and Ignatiy's worst movies of the year|website=Ebert Presents|date=30 December 2011|access-date=27 June 2012}}</ref>

In the UK, the reception of the film was just as hostile. Scott Weinberg<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/sep/27/human-centipede-2-censors |title='Human Centipede 2': the censors saved you from a shockingly boring film |work=The Guardian|date=27 September 2011 |access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref> and Catherine Shoard<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/06/human-centipede-2-18-classification |title='Human Centipede 2' wins certificate 18 classification from British censors |work=The Guardian|date=6 October 2011 |access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref> in '']'' and ]<ref>{{cite news |last=Kermode |first=Mark |date=2011-11-20 |title=Is it the end of life in the fast lane?: The all-conquering Pixar franchise stalls this time with the pedestrian Cars 2 |work=The Observer}}</ref> in '']'' praised the BBFC for heavily censoring the film, their only regret being that the BBFC could not make ''The Human Centipede 2'' into a "better" film.<ref>Smith, Martin Ian (13 January 2015). . '']''. Retrieved on 13 November 2018.</ref>

===Accolades===
''The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence'', at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2012,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fangoria.com/index.php/moviestv/fearful-features/6638-the-2012-fangoria-chainsaw-awards-ballot|title=2012 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards|website=Fangoria.com|access-date=20 January 2018}}</ref> won as Worst Film and was nominated as Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-DVD Film.


==Sequel== ==Sequel==
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As of August 2011, Six was already working on a sequel, to be titled ''The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)''. Six has revealed that the film will again be very different from the previous part but will also start with its ending, so in the end the parts of the trilogy would form one continuous film about four and a half hours long, making it similar to a centipede. Critics have likened this progression to the repeated defecation of each "segment" into the next. He also stated that the third film will answer some "lasting questions," will have a strange happy ending, and will be the last of the series as he does not want to do any more ''Centipede'' films.<ref name="collider.com"/> In an interview with DreadCentral.com, Six said the third film will "make the last one look like a ] film. We're going to shoot the third film entirely in America, and it's going to be my favourite... It's going to upset a lot of people." <ref> Accessed 2011-10-03.</ref>
Six stated that the third film would again be very different from the previous entry, but would also start with its ending, making the trilogy similar to a centipede. In the end, the parts of the trilogy form one continuous film about four and a half hours long. He also stated that the third film would answer some "lasting questions", have a strange happy ending, and is the last of the series, as he does not want to make any more ''Centipede'' films.<ref name="collider.com"/> In an interview with ], Six said the third film would "make the last one look like a ] film. We're going to shoot the third film entirely in America, and it's going to be my favorite&nbsp;... It's going to upset a lot of people."

Around late 2012, actor ] and Six ended their legal battle about creative differences, which had been ongoing since March 2012. Laser and Harvey returned for the third film, which is set in the United States, and played new characters. Six had said that the film would star a "big American celebrity", have "a storyline that nobody would expect", and feature a centipede consisting of 500+ people.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rigney |first=Todd |url=http://www.beyondhollywood.com/human-centipede-3-debuts-new-poster-at-the-american-film-market/ |title=Human Centipede 3 Debuts New Poster at the American Film Market |website=Beyond Hollywood |date=2013-11-07 |access-date=2013-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208183205/http://www.beyondhollywood.com/human-centipede-3-debuts-new-poster-at-the-american-film-market/ |archive-date=8 December 2013}}</ref>

Filming commenced in May 2013, with ] added to the cast. Other cast members include former pornographic actress ], ], and ] Filming concluded in June, with the film taking place in a prison. The official tagline for the film is "100% Politically Incorrect".<ref>Barton, Steve (29 May 2013). . ''Dread Central''. Accessed 24 December 2024.</ref> ''The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)'' was released both theatrically and on video on demand on 22 May 2015.


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2011 film by Tom Six

The Human Centipede 2
(Full Sequence)
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTom Six
Written byTom Six
Produced by
  • Tom Six
  • Ilona Six
Starring
CinematographyDavid Meadows
Edited byTom Six
Music byJames Edward Barker
Production
company
Six Entertainment Company
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 22 September 2011 (2011-09-22) (Fantastic Fest)
  • 7 October 2011 (2011-10-07) (United States)
  • 4 November 2011 (2011-11-04) (United Kingdom)
Running time
  • 88 minutes (International version)
  • 84 minutes (BBFC cut)
  • 91 minutes (Unrated director's cut)
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Netherlands
LanguageEnglish
Box office$170,323

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) 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 States, and the sequel to Six's 2009 film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), 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 (Full Sequence) 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 (First Sequence), 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 cabbie 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. However, Martin cuts into the buttocks of one victim too deeply, causing him to bleed to death. Instead of surgical tools, he 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, 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, which makes him inject 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 each victim 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. Furious that his centipede is ruined, Martin executes the victims. 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.
  • Maddi Black as Candy / Human centipede No. 2, a prostitute who is kidnapped by Martin while performing oral sex on Dr. Sebring. She is placed behind Ashlynn and is forced to digest her feces.
  • 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 swallow her excrement.
  • Dominic Borrelli as Paul / Human centipede No. 4, an overweight cab driver that buys a prostitute for himself and Dr. Sebring, but is taken by Martin along with the prostitute. He is placed behind Karrie and is forced to swallow her excrement.
  • Lucas Hansen as Ian / Human centipede No. 5, an aggressive young man that lives in the building. He is placed behind Paul and is forced to digest his feces.
  • Lee Nicholas Harris as Dick / Human centipede No. 6, the 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 feces.
  • 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 eat his diarrhea.
  • 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 swallow his feces.
  • 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 Greg and is forced to digest his diarrhea.
  • Emma Lock as Kim / Human centipede No. 10: The girlfriend of Ian. She is behind Valerie and serves as the functioning anus of the centipede. She is forced to swallow Valerie’s diarrhea.
  • 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 (First Sequence), 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.

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, and whimpers.

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.

Release

United States

The film had its United States premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, on 22 September 2011. The film's distributor, IFC Films, gave audience members complimentary barf bags at the screening, and stationed an ambulance outside the theater as a gimmick. However, one audience member became so physically ill during the premiere that paramedics had to assist her.

The film began a limited theatrical release in the United States on 7 October 2011. It was released unrated and only had midnight showings. The film was released in an "unrated director's cut" on DVD and Blu-ray on 14 February 2012; the film runs a total 91 minutes.

A full-colour version of the film was released for the first time in the United States on 27 October 2015, exclusively on The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence Blu-ray set.

In April 2016, a Tennessee high school teacher was suspended after the film was played during class. Tom Six responded by tweeting "It should be mandatory to watch THC2 in school classes...It deals with a character that is bullied and what to do!" Six also said that he would be giving the teacher an autographed copy of the film.

Censorship

United Kingdom

In June 2011, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) refused to classify The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) for a direct-to-video release, effectively meaning that the film could not legally be supplied in any format in the UK. The BBFC had given the preceding First Sequence title an 18 certificate. The Board stated that they had considered First Sequence to be "undoubtedly tasteless and disgusting", but deemed it acceptable for release because the "centipede" was the product of a "revolting medical experiment". By contrast, the BBFC report on Full Sequence stated that the film's content was too extreme for an 18 certificate and was "sexually violent, and potentially obscene". The board members felt that the centipede of Full Sequence existed purely as "the object of the protagonist's depraved sexual fantasy". They criticised the film for making "little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised and degraded for the amusement and sexual arousal of the main character and for the pleasure of the viewer", and stated their opinion that the film was potentially in breach of the Obscene Publications Act. The BBFC initially suggested that cutting the film would not affect the decision, "as the unacceptable material featured throughout".

Tom Six responded to the BBFC's decision in a statement released the next day:

Thank you BBFC for putting spoilers of my movie on your website and thank you for banning my film in this exceptional way. Apparently I made an [sic] horrific horror-film, but shouldn't a good horror film be horrific? My dear people it is a fucking MOVIE. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief [sic]. It is art. Give people their own choice to watch it or not. If people can't handle or like my movies they just don't watch them. If people like my movies they have to be able to see it any time, anywhere also in the UK.

Eureka Entertainment, the film's UK distributor, issued a statement criticising the ban, echoing Six's sentiments about the revelation of plot details in the BBFC's report, and announcing their intention to appeal to the Video Appeals Committee.

In October 2011, the BBFC ultimately granted the film an 18 certificate for "very strong bloody violence and gore, and sexual violence" after 32 compulsory cuts were made, totalling 2 minutes and 37 seconds. Sir Quentin Thomas, president of the BBFC, stated:

When we first examined this work earlier this year we judged that, as submitted, it was unsuitable for classification; and, as we explained to the company, we could not ourselves see how cuts could produce a viable and classifiable work. That remains the view of one of our Vice Presidents, Gerard Lemos, who is therefore abstaining from the Board's collective decision. The company lodged an appeal against our decision to refuse classification. In the course of preparations for that appeal, the company proposed a number of cuts which it was right for us to consider. In response, after further examination, we proposed a more extensive series of cuts. These cuts produce a work which many will find difficult but which I believe can properly be classified at the adult level. The company has now accepted these cuts, withdrawn its appeal and the work has been classified, as cut, at 18.

The sales director of Eureka Entertainment supported the decision, stating:

We are really pleased that after nearly four months of detailed discussion and debate, we have been able to reach an agreement with the BBFC and to produce a very viable cut of the film which will both excite and challenge its fans. Naturally we have a slight disappointment that we have had to make cuts, but we feel that the storyline has not been compromised and the level of horror has been sustained.

Australia and New Zealand

In May 2011, the uncut film was originally granted an R18+ classification by the Australian Classification Board (ACB). However, this decision was later overruled after Minister for Justice Brendan O'Connor asked for a review of the rating by the Australian Classification Review Board. On 28 November 2011, the film was reviewed and by unanimous decision of a three-person board, refused classification.

Several groups and individuals, including FamilyVoice Australia, Collective Shout and Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, welcomed the decision. Monster Pictures, the Australian distributor of the film, criticised the decision and announced their intention to re-edit and re-submit the film for review.

On 13 December 2011, the ACB classified a modified version of the film at R18+ for "high impact themes, violence and sexual violence". Monster Pictures expressed their "delight", and clarified that thirty seconds of the film had been "modified". They concluded that "this decision highlights the absurdity of Classification Review Board's decision to ban the film in the first place."

Due to the reaction by Australian film authorities, the film was not submitted for theatrical distribution in New Zealand. However, in April 2012, the DVD version was classified as "objectionable" (banned) by the New Zealand Office of Film & Literature Classification.

Reception

Box office

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) opened at 45th place with $49,456, for an average of $2,748, in the 18 theaters where it premiered. With four theaters added the next weekend, the film dropped a modest 29.9% with $34,679. Its third weekend saw a 56.2% drop despite having two more theaters added. However, in its fourth weekend, the film lost 12 theaters, causing a 61.9% drop ($5,792). In its final weekend, it grossed $2,267, putting the movie's resting spot at No. 95 for the weekend.

The film grossed $5,824 in Iceland and $1,511 in the United Kingdom. Released in Peru in April 2012, the horror picture grossed $21,111 there. At the end of its run, the film made $141,877, about half of what the previous installment had grossed.

Critical response

The film has a rating of 29% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 83 reviews, with a weighted average of 3.28/10. The site's consensus reads: "The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) attempts to weave in social commentary but as the movie wears on, it loses its ability to repulse and shock and ends up obnoxious and annoying." At Metacritic, it rates 17 out of 100, indicating "overwhelming dislike", based on 22 reviews.

Giving it a score of 7 out of 10, Bloody Disgusting writer Brad Miska said the film was a "brilliant response to critics of his first film. It makes a strong statement that it's just a movie and that people take his work way too seriously, while also implementing a unique concept". Miska added that he "found it an intensely engaging and absolutely hilarious meta experience that gets its point across with flying colors", but was critical of the script's lack of depth. Entertainment Weekly writer Owen Gleiberman gave the film a B+ rating, stating that viewers "may feel gripped by the horror of what you're seeing and the terror of what's coming". Gleiberman noted how "The scatological climax would have the Marquis de Sade gagging into his popcorn." Writing in the New York Post, V. A. Musetto gave the film 3 out of 4 and said Full Sequence "is sick, disgusting and vile. (but) It's also demonically funny, stylish and ingenious."

Jen Yamato, writing for Movieline, criticized the film's excessive gore and the way director Tom Six seemed to dislike his own audience, specifying "It's not really a film one can or should 'enjoy', which is what Six seems to be telling his own audience, the fans who giggled through The Human Centipede and demanded more! Gorier! More extreme! Well, those people will get what they asked for." Eric Kohn, writing for indieWire, criticized the excessive grotesqueness of the film as well as Six's vanity. He stated, "Well, what if it turns someone's own body against them—is that a measure of success? To some degree, yes; it's designed to turn the tables on its own gore-hungry fans by depicting a fictionalized version of one of their own so revolting they think twice about their twisted tendencies. But it's so indulgently perverse, and so viscerally disturbing to watch—not to mention a painfully vain exercise in self-worship—that the lesson is incredibly hard-won. Take a word of warning, if you're on the fence; you don't have to see The Human Centipede II to know you don't want to see it."

Some reviewers found the extreme nature of the film boring. Robert Koehler, writing for Variety, found the gore so excessive that he termed it a form of lazy filmmaking. "More boring than stomach-churning, the film nevertheless contains scattered scenes and sequences so far beyond the tolerance of the squeamish that it can't be overstated; one, detailing the violent birth and death of a baby, is here simply to shock the most jaded of the jaded".

Reviewer Robert Saucedo of InsidePulse.com was more generous toward the film, but found its execution lacking. He wrote, "The film ... has a hint of intelligence hiding behind its beady little eyes. Smeared with blood and poo as it may be, this intelligence exposes a film that has something to say. The problem, unfortunately, is that director Tom Six is like a child – attempting to make a profound statement but unable to get it out eloquently or even in anything not resembling a whimper or a groan most of the time ... Who would have guessed? Human Centipede II is a treatise about horror fandom as delivered by a giggling, poop-infatuated toddler."

Mark Olsen, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, expressed concern over the film's conclusion as well as its basic premise. The conclusion (which he admits is open to interpretation; did Lomax commit these crimes or not?) leaves the audience either believing that the film is a "cop-out repudiation of everything that has come prior" or that even more graphic torture is coming in the third film. Regardless, Olsen concluded that writer-director Six has left himself with no good option for the third film.

Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, who did not assign a star rating to the original, gave this film zero stars on review, calling it "reprehensible, dismaying, ugly, artless and an affront to any notion, however remote, of human decency". He would later name it the worst movie of 2011.

In the UK, the reception of the film was just as hostile. Scott Weinberg and Catherine Shoard in The Guardian and Mark Kermode in The Observer praised the BBFC for heavily censoring the film, their only regret being that the BBFC could not make The Human Centipede 2 into a "better" film.

Accolades

The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2012, won as Worst Film and was nominated as Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-DVD Film.

Sequel

Main article: The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)

Six stated that the third film would again be very different from the previous entry, but would also start with its ending, making the trilogy similar to a centipede. In the end, the parts of the trilogy form one continuous film about four and a half hours long. He also stated that the third film would answer some "lasting questions", have a strange happy ending, and is the last of the series, as he does not want to make any more Centipede films. In an interview with DreadCentral.com, Six said the third film would "make the last one look like a Disney film. We're going to shoot the third film entirely in America, and it's going to be my favorite ... It's going to upset a lot of people."

Around late 2012, actor Dieter Laser and Six ended their legal battle about creative differences, which had been ongoing since March 2012. Laser and Harvey returned for the third film, which is set in the United States, and played new characters. Six had said that the film would star a "big American celebrity", have "a storyline that nobody would expect", and feature a centipede consisting of 500+ people.

Filming commenced in May 2013, with Eric Roberts added to the cast. Other cast members include former pornographic actress Bree Olson, Robert LaSardo, and Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr. Filming concluded in June, with the film taking place in a prison. The official tagline for the film is "100% Politically Incorrect". The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) was released both theatrically and on video on demand on 22 May 2015.

See also

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