![]() Amidst it all, there are moments of amusement and genuine smarts, but these are too few and far between to make a difference. It's a film which revels in its violations, from the ass-to-mouth practicality of the Human Centipede to Bill Boss's prison castrations, various rape sequences and the repeated molestation of its only female character. Such ideas are at play here, but that's not to say they're handled very well. Sadly, I don't doubt at all that there are those who will watch The Human Centipede III and side with Bill Boss. Specifically, the issue of prison rape, and those who consider it to be either funny or 'justice', on some level. There's a satirical edge that one might not expect, Boss's cruelty challenging ideals, asking the audience where the boundaries should lie when it comes to the criminal justice system. Viewers will recognise the prisoners from a number of eerily similar roles (most notably the big guy who throws Joker's bomb detonator off a boat in The Dark Knight and a tattooed fellow who always seems to play rapey types). Suffice to say that he doesn't do so well. The less said about Tom Six playing himself, the better. Both are barely watchable, Laser a bug-eyed annoyance, Harvey stilted and uncomfortable. He's barely in it, but he serves as a nice counterpoint to Laser's hyperactive gurning and Harvey's Martin Freeman-esque straight man routine. Looking mostly bemused by it all, Roberts is one of the few reasons to stick with the sequence to its end. The only dramatic hook is the question whether Governor Eric Roberts will like Bill Boss's Human Centipede or not. But we know it is – the finished product is on the movie poster in its (500 person!) entirety. Most of the film is spent watching Dwight try to convince Boss that the centipede idea is a viable one. Because we know that the centipede is coming, the amount of time Boss spends debating whether to go ahead or not is entirely moot. ![]() ![]() Because we know that the centipede is coming, there's no sense of tension or drama no point stopping to care about any of the characters (all horrible anyway). As with the previous two films, the only thing moving the narrative is the inevitable, impending centipede. When right-hand man Dwight (Harvey with a Hitler moustache) lends Boss the first two Human Centipede movies, a solution to their problems becomes apparent.Īnd that's that, where plot is concerned. The setting this time is a giant state prison, Laser playing the part of sadistic warden Bill Boss, forever seeking new and interesting ways of visiting cruel and unusual punishment upon his prisoners. While there's plenty here to offend and upset, it's more concerned with its interplay between Dieter Laser and Laurence R. That, by the way, is not necessarily a bad thing. Those expecting something akin to the previous film's notoriously controversial scenes of gore and violence may be disappointed – it's surprisingly tame, lacking anything that might match Full Sequence's sandpaper masturbation or newborn-squishing-car-escape sequences. ![]() So while the first film was a tongue-in-cheek mad scientist body horror movie, the second a black-and-white arthouse torture flick, for his Final Sequence, Six goes for balls-to-the-wall (almost literally at one point) black comedy. Where most horror franchises quickly settle into a dull routine of rinsing and repeating the first movie's previous antics over and over again, The Human Centipede's Stetson-wearing horror madman can barely bring himself to stick with one subgenre, let alone story. One can't help but admire Human Centipede creator and director Tom Six. ![]()
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