In a fashion typical of horror movie sequels this film opens by revisiting the last few minutes of the original movie including the closing credits. The camera pulls back to reveal we are watching the film playing on a laptop computer. Martin Lomax (Laurence R. Harvey) is intently watching with maniacal infatuation. It is very easy to see that Martin is a social outcast and as held that regrettable station all his life. Martin is an overweight, kind of greasy kind of guy with an obvious mental deficiency that appears beyond conventional psychopharmacological intervention. Martin is the kind of guy that after the inevitable heinous act is perpetrated his neighbors will tell the news cameras that he was a creepy little man that they knew would do something sick and twisted. As it turns out Charlie Manson would likely call him a creepy dude and avoid him. He lives in a small flat in England along with his emotionally abusive mother and excessively annoying neighbors with a perchance for extremely loud club music. His job is literally a dead end one, a security guard in an underground parking garage. There he spends his time further isolated from people watching the well to do on close circuit television monitors. To add a little icing on Martin’s psychopathy check list and another chapter in the DSM-IV, Martin was sexually abused as a child by his father. In short, Martin is a one man subject for a full doctorial dissertation on abnormal psychology. He is obsessed with the film ‘The Human Centipede (First Sequence)’ watching it on his laptop constantly both at home and on the job. After Martin murders his mother in a fit of rage He decides to perform his own rendition of the Human Centipede this time linking one dozen hapless victims. With absolutely no medical training and armed only with an ad hoc assortment of garden tools and a rented warehouse he sets about on his plan. In one of the most unbelievable elements of the plot he phones three of the actors from the original movie by impersonating Quentin Tarantino’s casting agent. Only one, Ashlynn Yennie accepts. In difference to her unenviable position in the fictional centipede she gets to be number one time hence avoiding feeding on feces. To make the story even more disgusting, one victim is pregnant.

The main controversy of this film is the obvious use of perverted themes, shocking images and entirely gratuitous shocking images. The reason I began this consideration with comments about Ed Wood is there is a second line of heated conversation over the filmmaker’s prime intention for this movie. Some are satisfied with the obvious; Six wanted to disgust the audience an on that account he succeeded wildly. Then there are those that offer some degree of mitigation professing that Six intended to create a satire of the current state of horror movies. I have to admit that after trying to get past the incredible disgusting nature of the flick I do have to admit I can find some validation to the case that Tom Six is a satirist. In the current well documented trend of horror movies the onus has moved from and pretense of a story to the display of methods to inflict pain and suffering that would make Tomás de Torquemada cringe in abhorrence. Movie franchises like ‘Saw’ have engendered a generation of filmmakers constantly attempting to outdo the horrible torture of their competitors. Tom Six has grabbed this lamentable fad and upped the ante with a reductio ad absurdum approach making something that has little intrinsic value. He then continued the satiric motif by tackling the horror sequel. In the second movie the body count always is greatly increased and the methods of carnage becoming more elaborate and outlandish; he even found a way to ‘logically’ bring back an original cast member. It has to be said that Six did accomplish this. This movie is truly the quintessential horror sequel showing just how bad such films typically are. His plan to go on to a trilogy does support this view. Littler things like depicting the fan of the first film as a murderous psychopath are a little dig on the types of people that get into so called torture porn. Yes, it is definitely biting the hand that feeds him but it does make a substantial point. Try watching on an empty stomach with this approach in mind to see what I mean.