DVD and Blu-ray Releases: October 27, 2015
Sean Brickley
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We’ve made it to the last release list before Halloween, and I must say that it doesn’t disappoint. Factoring in the 6 unverified movies at the end of the article, we’ve got a total of 43 releases to discuss.
I had reported back on October 6th that Ghostline was being released then, but it popped up again on this week’s radar so that’s why it may look familiar to you.
In terms of classics, we’ve got a good handful to tell you about. Fans of insect sci-fi may remember 1959’s Them! or The Deadly Bees. You can also pick up the collector’s edition Blu-ray of Army of Darkness. Additional older movies that you may want to grab include: Phase IV, Boarding House, Heart of Midnight, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, and 1986’s Breeders.
Fans of classics may also enjoy the Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats box set. It contains two film interpretations of one of the horror master’s stories, as seen by Lucio Fulci and Sergio Martino.
One of the more recent phenomena in the world of horror movies has been that of The Human Centipede. Fans of modified gastrointestinal tracts can rejoice in knowing that The Human Centipede III: The Final Sequence as well as the complete trilogy, The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence, will both be hitting your shelves this week.
After all of that, there’s still a ton of other movies dropping this week to make your weekend even scarier. Happy Halloween, fiends, and pleasant viewing!
MOVIES
50 Shades Of Scarlett (2014)
Starring:
Scarlett Storm, Lydia Lael, Vanna Blondelle, Lauren Steinmeyer
Synopsis:
Scarlett Storm is a rising star in the world of exploitation film. This double-feature lets you explore two sides to her myriad facets. In Crippled by Desire you see her submissive side as she tries to ward off a deviant. Your trauma will then be alleviated by her comical and dominant side in Quantum Leap of Faith in which SHE calls the shots.
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Absolute Zombies (2015)
Starring:
David Allen, Silje Reinamo
Synopsis:
The world as we know it is gone. The few remaining survivors exist in a burnt out world of fear, pain and the undead. Two survivors, once friends, join together to make their way through the wasteland while hunted by bands of cannibalistic maulers, evil scientists and the hungry living dead at every turn. A unique and bizarre visual experience unlike any post-apocalyptic zombie film ever made.
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Apparition (2015)
Starring:
Natalie Bolton, Josh Pack, Joe Moore, Eva Marcus, Sydney Fergerson
Synopsis:
Every town has one. The place you warn your kids about, the place where unexplained things happen, the place that’s haunted. This east Texas town is no different. Southbrook hospital sits empty and has been that way since the riot in 1986. With the sale of the property pending, the buyers want peace of mind. Enter Eradication, Inc. Damon (Josh Pack), Jared (Joe Moore), Rowan (Eva Marcus), Kristin (Survivor’s Natalie Bolton) and Ellie (Sydney Fergerson) are the most sought after Ghost Hunters in Texas and are about to enter Southbrook. Is Southbrook all legend or is there a darker evil lurking in the halls?
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Army Of Darkness (1992)
Starring:
Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie
Synopsis:
A time-warped supermarket worker fights in medieval England with a chainsaw and a ’73 Oldsmobile.
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Starring:
Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Jack Pennick
Synopsis:
Spawning an era of atomic-age creature features, this screen adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s work features Ray Harryhausen’s first time wielding total control over special effects.
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Bloody Knuckles (2014)
Starring:
Adam Boys, Kasey Ryne Mazak, Ken Tsui
Synopsis:
Travis, an underground comic book artist with a penchant for obscene caricatures, upsets a Chinatown crime lord who responds by cutting off the young man’s hand. As a despondent, drunken Travis wallows in post-severed hand depression, his decomposing limb returns to life and is determined to exact revenge. Soon, Travis and his mischievous appendage join forces with a masked S&M superhero to rid the city of evil. Filmmaker Matt O.’s debut feature strips Canada of its “land of nice” image with this deliriously offensive, gory, and happily un-PC horror-comedy!
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Boarding House (1982)
Starring:
John Wintergate, Alexandra Day, Joel Riordan, Brian Bruderlin
Synopsis:
The Hoffman house has what one would call a “haunted history.” Shuttered after a series of mysterious deaths in the early 1970’s, ten years later Jim Royce (John Wintergate, Terror on Tour), a relative and clairvoyant, has reopened his inheritance as a boarding house for young women. But beware … the dark forces are not to be trifled with. Murder and mayhem soon return and no one, and we mean NO ONE, is safe.
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Breeders (1986)
Starring:
Teresa Farley, Lance Lewman, Frances Raines
Synopsis:
A detective and doctor tie rapes to bug-eyed aliens who are posing as humans in order to multiply.
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Caesar And Otto’s Paranormal Halloween (2015)
Starring:
Paul Chomicki, Dave Campfield, Vernon Wells, Tiffany Shepis, Sean Whalen
Synopsis:
Half brothers Caesar and Otto live out some of horror’s most terrifying scenes when they agree to housesit a home filled with ghostly visions, levitating objects and possessions. This hilarious horror pays homage to classics The Exorcist, Amityville Horror, Sinister, Insidious and more, and boasts an all-star genre cast including Tiffany Shepis, Brinke Stevens, Vernon Wells and Sean Whalen.
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Creeps (2013)
Starring:
Jack Mulvanerty, Johnny Dickie, Joshua Bruce
Synopsis:
In this fun homage to classic SOV gore slashers from the 80s, a group of teenagers set out into the woods looking for the body of a missing person who everyone suspects has been murdered by a serial killer. During their search, they encounter the killer and must team up and battle for their lives against the sadistic monster.
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The Deadly Bees (1967)
Starring:
Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Catherine Finn, John Harvey
Synopsis:
A tired British pop singer tries to rest on an island where two different men keep bees.
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The Death Of April (2015)
Starring:
Katarina Hughes, Stephanie Domini, Adam Lowder
Synopsis:
19- year-old college sophomore Meagan Mullen moves into a townhouse and keeps in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex, dark and emotional, unexplained paranormal occurrences begin to happen in her room: and the camera captures it all. Told primarily from the point of view of an ordinary wireless webcam, Death of April documents the unsettling activity in an otherwise average girl’s bedroom – and the mysteries that surround it.
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Deceived (2015)
Starring:
Betsy Landin, Mike Falkow, Millie Ruperto, Sevier Crespo, Carlos Jimenez Flores
Synopsis:
Alejandro returns to his home in Puerto Rico, to help his sister Magdalena get her life together. Only to find out from an old acquaintance, Detective Garcia, that Magdalena has gone missing. Led to a bar in old San Juan, he discovers that not only was Magdalena working as an exotic dancer, but she was dating a drug dealing surfer, Laz. Here Alejandro tries to piece together the events that led to her disappearance and struggles to wrap his head around the interconnected nature of all the characters. Upon discovering that the bar manager, Michael, has a dark history and a millionaire philanthropist, Roman, is not just here to build an orphanage, Alejandro starts to realize that not everything is as it seems.
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Devious (2015)
Starring:
Robyn Sydney, Kim Argetsinger, Giacomo Gonnella, Rane Jameson, Samantha Light
Synopsis:
For generations, the strange, inbred Arkoff family has lived in their creepy Italian castle undisturbed by the outside world. Until one night, when their sanctuary is invaded by a trio of thieves and the Arkoffs must fight for their lives, aided only by the ancient protectors of the castle…the deadly Devious!
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Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
Starring:
Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Michael Gough, Peter Cushing, Max Adrian
Synopsis:
A traveler’s tarot cards tell how an architect, musician, doctor, gardener and critic will die.
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Faim De Mort (2015)
Starring:
Francios Yagopian, Chatoto
Synopsis:
A man lost between life and death confronts all sorts of events that turn him into real voracious cannibal. It is taken strange bloody hallucinations which push him to fill his hunger and to fight against demonic forces.
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Flowers (2015)
Starring:
Colette Kenny Mckenna, Krystle Fitch, Anastasia Blue, Tanya Erin Paoli, Kara A. Christiansen
Synopsis:
Some don’t understand when the roller-coaster of life stops and their life ends. Some go up and others… find themselves in Purgatory to either find redemption or to choose damnation. Where do the murder victims go when they have a chance to choose’ A mind-bending, artistic ride down the road to hell. Are you willing to damn yourself or accept salvation?
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Ghostline (2014)
Starring:
Zach Gold, Burt Culver, Andrea Bensussen, Justin Little, Mark Benjamin
Synopsis:
After installing a landline in their new home, Tyler and Chelsea begin to receive “unknown caller” phone calls from Ellen, an unstable woman who insists that Tyler is her ex-boyfriend, Eric. Mysteriously, the calls are coming from a ghostline, from which one can make phone calls without having a specific number. When neither the police nor the phone company can resolve this harassing headache, things become become hellish as they’re now exposed to terrifying paranormal activity inside the house. Ignoring a warning to steer clear of the ever-dangerous Eric, the couple enacts a plan to prove to Ellen that Tyler is not the man she’s after. Their final strategy backfires with deadly consequences in a shocking finale that will haunt you long after the film is over.
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Halloween Hell (2014) (October 30th)
Starring:
Eric Roberts, Sam Aotaki, Evan Bittencourt
Synopsis:
Six young people go on a reality show to win money by spending Halloween being locked in a room with a demonic presence. The PPV show host is a delusional psycho who conjures up a real demon and takes audience bets as the carnage goes viral.
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Heart of Midnight (1988)
Starring:
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Coyote, Brenda Vaccaro, Frank Stallone, Steve Buscemi
Synopsis:
Mastered in HD! At Midnight, the line between love and lust disappears as terror stalks the innocent! Carol (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rush) has lived on the edge of madness for as long as she can remember. Now she has inherited a run-down nightclub called The Midnight from an uncle she barely remembers, and she seizes the chance to start a new life. But Carol s dream of independence disintegrates into a nightmare, The Club s a lurid trap and something seems to be stalking Carol above the ceiling, under the floorboards, driving her closer and closer to the edge. Is the danger that haunts her real? Or has her mind finally cracked? Only one man (Peter Coyote, Bitter Moon) knows the bizarre secrets that corrupted Carol s past and brought her to this deadly reckoning. Now she must risk her sanity and her life to face the brutal truth that lies at the Heart of Midnight. Written and directed Matthew Chapman (Runaway Jury, Color of Night) with a stellar cast that includes Brenda Vaccaro, Frank Stallone and Steve Buscemi.
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The Horror Network (2015)
Starring:
Nick Frangione, Artem Mishin, Jan Cornet, Brian Dorton, Javier Botet
Synopsis:
Serial killers, ghostly phone calls, inner demons, otherworld monsters and creepy stalkers collide in this frightening anthology. Five of horror’s most promising new directing talents join forces to pay homage to classic horror like Creepshow, Tales From the Crypt, V/H/S and The ABCs of Death, and weave an unforgettable, disturbing tapestry of terror.
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How To Save Us (2015)
Starring:
Jason Trost, Cory Jandreau, kate Avery, Tallay Wickham
Synopsis:
Brian’s younger brother Sam goes missing in Tasmania during the middle of a mysterious quarantine. Brian must travel to the deserted island to save his brother from a land now solely inhabited by demonic spirits. In order to survive, he must follow a set of rules: including covering himself with human ashes, to cloak his presence from the malevolent entities haunting the barren landscape. But will this buy enough time for Brian to find his brother, or will they both be stuck in a hellish realm of the dead forever?
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The Human Centipede III: The Final Sequence (2015)
Starring:
Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey, Eric Roberts, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Bree Olson, Michael Flores
Synopsis:
Bully prison warden Bill Boss (The Human Centipede Part I’s Dieter Laser) has a lot of problems; prison riots, medical costs, staff turnover, but foremost he is unable to get the respect he thinks he deserves from his inmates and the state Governor (Eric Roberts). He constantly fails in experimenting with different ideas for the ideal punishment to get the inmates in line, which drives him completely insane. Under threats of termination by the Governor, his loyal right hand man Dwight (The Human Centipede Part II’s Laurence R Harvey) comes up with a brilliant idea. An idea based on the notorious Human Centipede movies, that will literally and figuratively get the inmates on their knees, creating the ultimate punishment and deterrent for anyone considering a life of crime.
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Intrusion (2015)
Starring:
Katie Stewart, Lee Haycraft, Teresa Lawrence Ii, Kyle Cates, Mark Spurgeon
Synopsis:
Holly Jensen leads an overly dramatic life. It’s one that is spent trying to avoid her problems and forget the past. Best friend Kali has the perfect solution to making Holly feel better. It’s a game called Wrong Number. However, the man on the other end finds the joke less than funny and decides to play a game of his own. A game where Holly will become the pawn. It’s a character-driven thriller where everything has consequences and something as beautiful as a rose can be turned into any woman’s, worst nightmare
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Nightmare Code (2014)
Starring:
Andrew J. West, Mei Melançon, Googy Gress, Ivan Shaw, Bret Roberts
Synopsis:
Nightmare Code is an independent sci-fi thriller about behavior recognition technology, behavior modification, 24/7 surveillance and artificial intelligence. Brett Desmond, brilliant young programmer with a troubled past, is brought to a tech start-up where the previous lead programmer went on a workplace murder/suicide rampage. With just a month to finish ROPER, the highly advanced behavior recognition program, and only a small testing crew remaining, Brett works and sleeps in the semi-abandoned office. But the deeper Brett delves into the code, the more his personality starts to warp like that of the dead programmer…and the more the code takes on a life of its own. Utilizing surveillance cameras, PC cams, videochat and eyeglasscam, for more than half the movie the viewer watches four images on the screen at once, like a surveillance monitor – but not always in sync, as if ROPER itself is telling us the story.
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Nightmare On Elmo’s Street (2015)
Starring:
Erin Brown, Scarlett Storm, Rachel Crow. Lydia Lael, Bill Zebub
Synopsis:
Erin Brown stars as the sexy room-mate of the equally enticing Lydia Lael. These women live in a world where puppets live alongside humans, but their facade of cuteness begins to dissolve as they enact depraved crimes.
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Orbs: They Are Among Us (2013)
Starring:
Christy Johnson, Patrick G. Keenan, David Joy
Synopsis:
May 11th, 1977, NASA launched their last Apollo Mission, Apollo 21. What was discovered has never been publicly acknowledged and is believed to be one of the biggest Government cover-ups in history. Did the men on this mission experience an Alien encounter? Now 37 years later, Wilbur, one of the former astronauts who led Apollo 21, is haunted by the memories of what he witnessed and lives a booze-riddled, debauched life with his young wife, Loraine. As he begins to question what really happened on the mission, strange occurrences begin to surround them as mysterious Orbs pass by unnoticed. Slowly they begin to unravel, slipping into insanity. Is it the work of Aliens? A black military operation, or is something far more sinister playing with their minds?
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Parasite Dolls (2015)
Starring:
Jessica Morris, Julia St. Clair, Dilio Nuñez, Meredith McClain
Synopsis:
Evil Things come in small packages! Serving time for a minor offense in a brutal women’s detention center, Eva (Jessica Morris) finds herself at the mercy of the evil matron (Julia St. Clair), a sadistic guard (Dilio Nuñez) and a gang led by Killa Kim (Meredith McClain). With all hope lost, Eva makes a midnight wish to a box of tiny South American Worry Dolls. The Dolls crawl into her ear at night, possessing her with the dark powers she needs to exact wicked vengeance on her tormentors.
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Phase IV (1974)
Starring:
Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport
Synopsis:
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
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Rags (2015)
Starring:
Vanelle, Billy Garberina, Samantha Novak
Synopsis:
A drug fueled exploitation fairy-tale. After attempting to live the American dream away from her family, the beautiful Alice returns home only to be thrust in the middle of an upside down Wonderland of crystal meth decadence and mentally disturbed violence. As Alice falls deeper down this rabbit holes, she holds on what little sanity she has left before her innocence is torn apart completely.
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The Sadist (2015)
Starring:
Tom Savini, Frank Wihbey, Santo Fazio
Synopsis:
Jack Bird (Frank Wihbey) is your average college student from Hometown, USA. He loves his classic car, his girl, and hunting with his Uncle Wil (Santo Fazio). On their yearly outing, things take a turn for the worse when a sadistic mad man (Tom Savini) who has escaped from the local psychiatric hospital decides to make Jack and Uncle Wil part of his deadly game of cat and mouse.
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Scarewaves (2014)
Starring:
Erin R. Ryan, Haley Jay Madison, Geoff Burkman
Synopsis:
From the director of Babysitter Massacre and Haunted House on Sorority Row comes a shocking new film critics are calling fresh and original and what horror audiences want. In his final night as a radio host, shock jock Amos Satan spins four spine-tingling tales of terror in this anthology of urban legends inspired by Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt. In ‘Worth the Wait’, an accomplice to murder and larceny struggles for her sanity. In ‘Office Case’, a corrupt former cop is haunted by his past. In ‘Painting after Midnight, an artist goes to devilish lengths for fame. And ‘Fair Scare’ proves there is no honor amongst thieves. Scarewaves. Listen if you dare.
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Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Starring:
Tim Matheson, Robert Rusler, William Sanderson
Synopsis:
Teens from hell seek belated revenge on a high-school teacher with a wife and son.
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Them! (1959)
Starring:
James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
Synopsis:
A landmark movie about giant radiation-mutated ants with Oscar®-nominated effects and an epic struggle in the drains beneath Los Angeles, Them! only gets better with age.
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True Fear: The Making Of Psycho (2015)
Starring:
Janet Leigh, Erik Kristopher Myers, Patricia Hitchcock
Synopsis:
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 black-and-white, low-budget film Psycho gave birth to the modern psychological thriller. Instead of using the expensive production crew from his previous North by Northwest, Hitchcock used the TV crew from his budget-minded weekly television series and crafted a classic that broke standard Hollywood conventions both visually and in screenplay. Quite unexpectedly, star Janet Leigh was brutally murdered one-third of the way through the movie and then teenage heartthrob Anthony Perkins was cast as a stuttering, mild-mannered psycho-killer. In addition, the always-lurking police detective (played by Martin Balsam), instead of solving the crime, becomes a victim of the sexually confused youth. Instead of his usual symphonic orchestra, Bernard Herrmann used only the string section to generate dread and suspense. Director Jeff Herberger stitches together the film’s production history using seldom-seen archival footage and commentary from current film historians, bringing the film’s preproduction, production and postproduction to vivid life, demonstrating why Psycho is one of Hitchcock’s greatest films. Featuring live interviews with Janet Leigh, Patricia Hitchcock (Alfred’s daughter) and Dorothy Herrmann (daughter of composer Bernard), True Fear: The Making of Psycho is a feature documentary containing onscreen commentary from film historians David Sterritt, Erik Kristopher Myers, George Stover, Gary J. Svehla, Gus Russo, Aaron Christensen and Michael G. Mack. Director Jeff Herberger and Midnight Marquee Productions demonstrate why Psycho has become one of Alfred Hitchcock’s defining classics.
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COLLECTIONS
Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats
Starring:
David Warbeck, Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Luigi Pistilli, Edwige Fenech
Synopsis:
Edgar Allan Poe’s celebrated story The Black Cat has provided the inspiration for numerous films over the years. But few adaptations are as stylish as those offered up by the twin Italian titans of terror, Sergio Martino and Lucio Fulci.
In Martino’s classic giallo Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, teacher Oliviero (Luigi Pistilli, A Bay of Blood) finds himself under suspicion for murder when one of his students and mistress is found brutally murdered. As more bodies start to pile up, the arrival of Oliviero s attractive niece (Edwige Fenech, Five Dolls for an August Moon, All the Colours of the Dark) brings with it complications of its own.
In The Black Cat, from that other Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci (Zombie), Scotland Yard Inspector Gorley (David Warbeck, The Beyond) find himself summoned to a sleepy English village to investigate the recent murder of a young couple. With no obvious signs of entry at the murder scene, Gorley is forced to start considering the possibility that his suspect may not be human…
Finally together on Blu-ray and in stunning new 2K restorations from the original camera negatives, fans can enjoy the double-dose of terror that is Edgar Allan Poe s Black Cats Italian-style!
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The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence
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Various
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The Human Centipede
Two stranded American tourists and a Japanese businessman are held captive by a famed German doctor who tells his captives they will be surgically attached – mouth to buttocks, one after the other – thus becoming a new creature: the human centipede!
The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence
Martin 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 (Final Sequence) is a triumph in biological horror by one of the new masters of the horror film.
The Human Centipede 3
Bully prison warden Bill Boss (The Human Centipede Part I’s Dieter Laser) has a lot of problems; prison riots, medical costs, staff turnover, but foremost he is unable to get the respect he thinks he deserves from his inmates and the state Governor (Eric Roberts). He constantly fails in experimenting with different ideas for the ideal punishment to get the inmates in line, which drives him completely insane. Under threats of termination by the Governor, his loyal right hand man Dwight (The Human Centipede Part II’s Laurence R Harvey) comes up with a brilliant idea. An idea based on the notorious Human Centipede movies, that will literally and figuratively get the inmates on their knees, creating the ultimate punishment and deterrent for anyone considering a life of crime.
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UNVERIFIED
Bastard (2015)
Lumberjack Man (2015)
Murder in the Dark (2015)
Re-Kill (2015)
Unnatural (2015)
The Wicked Within (2015)
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