The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence Tossed on the Barbie in Australia

Steve Barton |

Nov 29, 2011

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The Brisbane Times

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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/movies/centipede-crawls-out-of-australian-cinemas-20111129-1o4q3.html#ixzz1f79qVS9U

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Having recently seen Tom Six’s Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, I just don’t get all the controversy. It’s a friggin’ black comedy. Almost like a 90-minute fart joke. Well, another country has joined the ranks of those who deem the flick too offensive with its gratuitous usage of latex and karo syrup. Read on for details.

According to The Brisbane Times the graphic horror movie has been banned by the Classification Review Board just three weeks after it made its Australian premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival.

Originally classified R 18+ by the Classification Board in May, Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence was refused classification by the Review Board on Monday with the review team decrying its “gratuitous, exploitative or offensive depictions of violence“, as well as its displays of cruelty.

Whatever. The flick is available here in the States via VOD. Judge for yourself.

Synopsis:
Martin (Laurence R. Harvey) is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his nagging mother in a bleak London housing project, where loud neighbors and cramped living conditions threaten to plunge this victim of sexual and psychological abuse over the edge.

He works the night shift as a security guard in an underground parking garage, where customers and their vehicles come and go as he indulges his obsession with THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE), watching the film over and over on the small TV set in his office and meticulously examining the scrapbook he has lovingly filled with memorabilia from the film, including the mouth-to-anus surgery instructions made famous by Dr. Heiter, the mad scientist from Martin’s favorite movie.

Pushed to the brink by his harridan mother, haunted by the teasing voices of his abusive and incarcerated father, Martin sets into motion his plan to emulate Heiter’s centipede by creating his own version in a rented warehouse, which he begins to fill with victims, including a loud neighbor, two drunk nightclubbers, a prostitute and a lecherous john, and several more … including Martin’s pièce de résistance, one of the actresses from THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE).

Except that Martin lacks the surgical skill, medical instruments, and operating theater necessary to create a larger centipede in the image of Dr. Heiter’s masterpiece. So he makes use of materials at hand: duct tape, staple gun, household tools, and a fanboy moxie.

What follows is one of the most harrowing and terrifying films ever conceived, featuring a central character that makes FIRST SEQUENCE’s Dr. Heiter seem downright cuddly in comparison. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) is a triumph in biological horror by one of the new masters of the horror film.

Click HERE for our REVIEW of The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence!