![]() The better question raised by a film’s transgression, which “The Human Centipede III” never even begins to approach or ask, is what the transgressions in a film are for. It is not merely enough for a film to be transgressive any lout can disgust or appall. Rights to Eli Roth-Produced 'The Stranger'īut the greasy, grimy level of exploitation and claustrophobic cost-cutting aren’t the problem the film’s pace is murderously slow, both Laser and Harvey are catastrophically untrained and unprofessional (when Roberts, an actual actor, shows up, the effect is that of a stallion striding among broken-backed ponies), and all of the film’s boundary-breaking taboo-shattering grossness isn’t about anything more than itself. (Six is as talented an actor as he is a director and writer, in that he is not in fact talented in any way whatsoever.) By stitching the institution’s inmates into a huge Human Centipede, each set of eliminatory orifices in the chain sewn to the mouth of the poor unfortunate behind them, Bill and Dwight hope to cut down on costs, spur real deterrence and save their jobs from the Governor ( Eric Roberts), who has tired of their antics.Īlso Read: IFC Midnight Acquires U.S. ![]() Director Six even appears as himself to give Boss and Dwight the OK on their plan. ![]() Harvey, who also appeared as the silent security guard anti-hero of “The Human Centipede II”), but the prison’s real problems are legion: High costs, inmate fights, guard injuries and other myriad failures.īoss has his own ideas for how to fix the place, shouting “Medieval torture and castration!” in his strained-vein, hoarsely-garbled English, but mild-mannered Dwight keeps on mentioning an even better idea, if Bill would only watch these two horror movies to see how it might work …Īlso Read: Sundance: Corin Hardy's Creature Feature 'The Hallow' Sells to IFC MidnightĪnd so, much as the evil in “The Human Centipede II” was inspired by someone in the film watching “The Human Centipede,” Bill and Dwight’s reign of surgical terror is inspired by the prior two films in the series. Kurtz in his madness and brutality.īoss’ right-hand-flunky is his accountant, Dwight (Laurence R. Heiter in “The Human Centipede”), a sweat-soaked shaved-headed sadist meant to evoke either Captain Queeg or Col. Bush Prison, ruled over by the sadistic Warden Bill Boss (Dieter Laser, who also appeared as Dr. This time, Six sets the action in the fictional George H. ![]() The thing that wrecks “The Human Centipede III” isn’t how the film is disgustingly, degradingly unclean instead, Six’s work is ruined by how his film is desperately, depressingly unclever.Īlso Read: 'Human Centipede II' Banned in Britain But Six wants that response to a no-talent schlock-merchant like him, outrage isn’t part of the marketing plan but rather is the marketing plan, every cry of shock or clutched set of pearls an endorsement for his grim, grisly, badly-shot horror-free horror films. It would be one thing if I or any film reviewer found writer-director Tom Six’s “The Human Centipede III: Final Sequence” to be unclean after all, Six’s latest entry in the series he began with 2009’s “The Human Centipede” takes great pains to offer wound upon wound, slur upon slur, and violation on violation, with no gender, orientation, ethnicity or religion left unmocked and uninsulted. ![]()
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