Last night, Austin’s Fantastic Fest kicked off a week of honoring “horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies” with the opening night party, and the highlight of the evening was the debut of The Human Centipede 2. To show proper respect to the sequel to Tom Six’s 2010 horror tale of a mad doctor’s fetish for ass-to-mouth, the people at Fantastic Fest even organized the world’s largest Human Centipede Conga line. They clearly didn’t make it to my Bar Mitzvah.

But for those of us who couldn’t make it to Texas last night, all we have for now is the film’s new poster, which is, of course, not exactly theater-friendly. Check out the poster after the jump, as well as a patron-friendly alternative created by one unique theatre.

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Tom Six has been a household name ever since he filmed people pooping in and out forever in a movie that no one really wanted to watch, but everyone wanted to make jokes about (and cat toys, and necklaces, and tattoos, and porno {NSFW}…). He made a sequel earlier this year, but now that that’s done… it’s time for a third installment, naturally. But how to top himself? Why, he’s going to make it grosser, of course.

Present at the Empire Presents Big Screen event in London Six confirmed that he is gearing up a third and final Human Centipede film which will ‘make the second film look like a Disney film.’
“We’re going to shoot the third film entirely in America and it’s going to be my favourite. It’s going to upset a lot of people.” [Twitch]

You may remember that the second film was banned by the BBFC for, among other things…

“…a scene early in the film in which [the protagonist]  masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis, and a sequence later in the film in which he becomes aroused at the sight of the members of the ‘centipede’ being forced to defecate into one another’s mouths, culminating in sight of the man wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the rear of the ‘centipede’.

I don’t know how he plans to top that, short of actually showing up at your house and taking a dump in your lap, but that does sound exciting. Nice to seem him constantly reinventing himself. No one can call you a one-sh*t pony, no sirree.

(from our “Ideas for Movie-Themed Food Trucks” post)

I saw this story about the Human Centipede sequel being banned by the British Board of Film Classification yesterday and I didn’t think much of it, mainly because banning a movie I’m never going to see anyway isn’t much of a story. But I finally read the ruling, and found it more than noteworthy on account of its extreme specificity.  If only every tribunal’s decision included the phrases “forced defecation” and “sandpaper wrapped around his penis.”

This new work, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), tells the story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the first film and who imagines putting the ‘centipede’ idea into practice. Unlike the first film, the sequel presents graphic images of sexual violence, forced defecation, and mutilation, and the viewer is invited to witness events from the perspective of the protagonist. Whereas in the first film the ‘centipede’ idea is presented as a revolting medical experiment, with the focus on whether the victims will be able to escape, this sequel presents the ‘centipede’ idea as the object of the protagonist’s depraved sexual fantasy.

The principal focus of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder of his naked victims. Examples of this include a scene early in the film in which he masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis, and a sequence later in the film in which he becomes aroused at the sight of the members of the ‘centipede’ being forced to defecate into one another’s mouths, culminating in sight of the man wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the rear of the ‘centipede’. There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience. There is a strong focus throughout on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure. It is the Board’s conclusion that the explicit presentation of the central character’s obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of its Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers.

The BBFC has rejected the sexually violent, and potentially obscene DVD, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) This means that it cannot be legally supplied anywhere in the UK. [BBCFC]

Hey, wasn’t that an Eddie Izzard bit?  Anyway, is it just me, or does this movie sound like an adaptation of that book they wrote on South Park, Scrotie McBoogerballs?  Or is it more like Butters’ book, The Poop That Took a Pee?  Either way, needs more Morgan Freeman.

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The Human Centipede: The Final Sequence, which director Tom Six has promised will have FOUR TIMES THE A 2 M, now has a teaser.  Feeling the pressure to ratchet-up the grossness of the original, the Dutch-born Six has taken a novel-yet-successful approach:  hiring a weird British guy with a stuffed-up nose (soft pallet injury, maybe?) to do the voice over, and making the teaser just two minutes of Six awkwardly staring into the camera with his weird pale overgrown baby face.  Sample narration:

“I even get death threats on Facebook about it.  The sickest bastard is doctor Heiter, they’re saying.  But too many people… just think… it’s like My Little Pony.  So now… prepare for part two, which really will be the sickest movie of all time.”

I don’t follow that logic train at all, but perhaps I was just too distracted by the revolting voice/icky face combo.  This made me nearly as nauseous as the first time I saw Cam Gigandet’s dead-eyed gremlin face.  …So, uh… well done?

You do NOT want to see his horse.

[via IFC]

It should come as no surprise that Human Centipede director Tom Six enjoys filming people pooping into each others’ mouths, after all, he’s Dutch. (I’ve heard about the ovens you use to cook your food, you sick freaks).  Six recently squatted down for an interview with the BBC (*polishes monocle, continues watching scat porn*) in which he revealed that he’s filming a Human Centipede sequel called The Full Sequence in London.  And this time around, he says the anus-to-mouth human centipede will include TWELVE PEOPLE!  Sounds just like a party at Danny Masterson’s house.

The sequel’s title hints at a longer centipede – is that correct?
Yes, the centipede has 12 people. I had so many ideas when I wrote part one but I couldn’t put them all in because I wanted the audience to get used to the sick idea. Now I can put all my crazy ideas in part two.

AND YOU CAN PUT MORE NUMBER TWO IN PART 2! (God I wish I could write up more poop stories). I can only imagine that with four times the centipede segments, the sequel will be… 400% MEDICALLY ACCURATE!

How difficult was the casting process [for the first]?
I made a drawing of the human centipede construction – and because a picture says more than a thousand words. I showed the drawings to the actresses and so many became very angry with me. They thought I was a European lunatic, so they left.

Pssh, amateurs.  You should see the drawings Polanski used to show actresses.

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