Originally Posted by /Film

Briefly: You have a month to prepare: on October 7, Tom Six‘s The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence will hit theaters. If that seems like pretty short notice before the release, well, it is. Very short. We haven’t even seen a trailer yet from IFC. (There was that one footage-free teaser many months ago.) That leads me to wonder what the release strategy really is with the film. Is IFC hiding it, or just waiting for the opportune moment to throw a little sandpaper masturbation in our faces?

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel (Post 10910790)

Everyone goes ass-to-mouth on October 7th.



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Yeah, what is IFC's strategy? Because, at this point in time, there's nothing and the film is a month away from release. I'm assuming like the first it'll be an In Theaters + On Demand release. However, with all of the attention the first film got and IFC's failure to capture it during any sort of a theatrical run, will they actually release it on a wider scale?

Originally Posted by Terrell (Post 10911487)

How pathetic is it that Kevin Smith can't get a film released in theaters, as Red State went straight to DVD, yet this film will get a theater release?

I'm not sticking up for Smith. Just pointing how big of a joke and parody of himself that he's become. Not even Hollywood takes him seriously. That's kind of said. I never liked Smith, but he has more ability than Tom Six, whose only talent is to shock and gross people out.

Originally Posted by Rypro 525 (Post 10934908)

(and i read a tweet that the paramedics were called as someone needed medical assistance during the screening

Originally Posted by Nordling, Ain't It Cool News

Tom Six's original film is a model of restraint in comparison to the sequel, which has Martin (Lawrence Harvey) as a barely functional human being who is so taken by the original film that he decides to reenact it, but on a much bigger scale. The movie has logic flaws all over the place (Martin's Crowbar of Anesthesia + 4 seems to just knock out every person it touches when they should be feasibly dead) but obviously you're not looking for logic in a film where 10+ people are connected ass-to-mouth.

Is it good? I don't think words like good or bad really apply here. I laughed a lot, but mostly at how much the film tried to shock. I get the feeling that Six responded to critics of the first film by upping the ante on every level - on gore, on horror, and on the ridiculousness of the premise. I'd like to think that Six's film is a take on the moral police who judged the first film without really seeing it, in that he pretty much made the film that they imagined the first one to be. It has no morality in it at all, and even though the film suggests that much of the action is taking place in Martin's head, which may provide an out for some in the audience, the imagery is pretty much what you'd expect - explosive bowels, gore (although again, here's more suggested than shown - it just shows a lot as well), clearly insane characters, and while the first film is antiseptic and even clean in its way, HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 is about as filthy as it gets.

The first film, curiously, was asexual, but not this one, boy. There's rape, sexual mutilation, and suggested incest and pedophilia. Tom Six didn't hold back with this one, and the idea that Six suggested in the Q&A afterwards that the inevitable third film has something of a happy ending may be enough for "fans" of this series to give this a go. As a film, it's a bit exasperating, but as an experience, especially with that crowd, I couldn't deny that it was... fun? I'm glad I wasn't alone in witnessing it, at least.

Originally Posted by Rod Lott, OK Gazette

"THC II" begins with Martin (newcomer Laurence R. Harvey), a sweaty, bug-eyed, obese parking garage attendant in London, watching the tail end of the first "THC" on his laptop at work. When it's over, he watches it again. He's obsessed with it, to the point that he keeps a scrapbook of the film hidden underneath his bed, as if it were porn.

Martin doesn't utter a word. He doesn't need to. His story is so simple — a lifetime of abuse and ridicule — that he doesn't have to. The gist of "THC II" is that he begins to wonder about testing the movie's "100% Medically Accurate" advertising claim, so he seeks out some unwilling test subjects from the labyrinthian parking garage. Whereas the movie's Dr. Heiter had but three victims, Martin seeks a dirty dozen.

Whereas the first film was clean and antiseptic in look and design, this sequel is bleak and grimy. Whereas the first film was in color, this sequel is in black-and-white — except for one scene, à la the girl in the red dress from Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," but I leave it to your imagination. Whereas the first film showed next to nothing, this sequel shows everything. I do think it goes too far, and from a guy like me who has a strong tolerance for horror, that's saying something. (However, I should note that most of the audience members were more troubled by a pre-show short of a medical education film about the vasectomy procedure, step by scissoring step.)

I'm still processing "THC II." Six has made the darkest of black comedies, set in "Eraserhead"-type surroundings of societal misery, and then stitched on a Grand Guignol grand finale that had many unsure whether to laugh or recoil, so they did both. Harvey gives a remarkably brave performance; we alternately feel sorry for him and want to kill him. I think I liked the movie — it's arty, clever and unique — but so much of its third act crosses the line that the angel on my shoulder tells me I shouldn't. You'll never look at sandpaper the same way again.

Actually, the afterward appearance of Six, Harvey and four lovely centipede segments onstage took some of the sting out of it. There's a reason why they call it "special effects." Those butts sure looked real to me.

The highlight of the Q-and-A was when League asked Six about how he found Harvey, who resembles Alfred Hitchcock by way of Batman comics' The Penguin. Six said Harvey walked into auditions, "and then I asked him to rape a chair. He went at it full-force." And the rest is cinema history.

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel (Post 10935407)

IFC handed out t-shirts with the tagline with "The Deuce is Loose." :lol:

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel (Post 10935407)

IFC handed out t-shirts with the tagline with "The Deuce is Loose." :lol:

Originally Posted by dsa_shea (Post 10935960)

Why black and white? I wonder if that was intended from the get go or that was a choice that was made to get at least approval for showing it in the theaters.

Human Centipede 2: Backdoor Boogaloo

Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ (Post 10936349)

The negative reviews are practically going to write themselves...

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel (Post 10940011)

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This film looks fucking awful... ly amazing!

Originally Posted by IFC Films

OPENING MARKETS AND THEATERS - more coming soon:

10/07/11 IFC Center New York, NY

10/07/11 Music Box Theatre Chicago, IL

10/07/11 Main Art Theatre Royal Oak, MI

10/07/11 Oriental Theatre Milwaukee, WI

10/07/11 Uptown Theatre Minneapolis, MN

10/07/11 Tivoli Theatre University City, MO

10/07/11 Ritz at the Bourse Philadelphia, PA

10/07/11 E Street Cinema Washington, DC

10/07/11 Midtown Art Cinemas 8 Atlanta, GA

10/07/11 Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Austin, TX

10/07/11 Inwood Theatre Dallas, TX

10/07/11 River Oaks Theatre Houston, TX

10/07/11 Esquire Theatre Denver, CO

10/07/11 Nuart Theatre West Los Angeles, CA

10/07/11 Ken Cinema San Diego, CA

10/07/11 Egyptian Theatre Seattle, WA

10/07/11 Lumiere Theatre San Francisco, CA

10/14/11 Prytania Theatre New Orleans, LA

10/14/11 The Royale Mesa, AZ

10/21/11 Dundee Theatre Omaha, NE

10/21/11 Del Mar Theatre Santa Cruz, CA

10/21/11 Las Vegas Sci Fi Center Las Vegas, NV

10/28/11 Loft Cinema Twin Tucson, AZ

Originally Posted by Rypro 525 (Post 10943985)

Also, most if not all of those theaters have it only showing as a midnight movie

Originally Posted by asianxcore (Post 10955611)

The list posted mentions that the Lumiere Theatre in San Francisco would have the film starting today, but the website does not have showtimes up for the film through the next week.

No idea what is going on.

Originally Posted by Rypro 525 (Post 10955623)

checking the landmark site, it looks like its playing at the Bridge Theater at midnight only

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel (Post 10949085)

IFC has also announced the film will be available On Demand starting Wednesday, October 12th. :thumbsup:

Originally Posted by Giles (Post 10955974)

maybe this has been stated before, but what's with the news that IFC did some of it's own pruning of some of the more extreme scenes - is that true?

Originally Posted by Giles (Post 10956455)

here's what a New York Times article stated about Six and cutting the film for IFC's theatrical release:



I personally hate it when distributor's stick there head (pun intended) where it isn't needed - specifically in the editing of a film for "more commercial appeal/acceptance"

Originally Posted by TomOpus (Post 10956303)

I never saw the first one. Think I would be okay seeing this?

Originally Posted by asianxcore (Post 10956537)

Thanks so much for posting that Giles!

I don't like it either. Also wait a minute, did IFC pick up Human Centipede 2 for possible commercial appeal? They obviously picked up the first 2 films for pure sales on shock. They aren't trying to convince the masses to come see a more commercially viable film about people getting grafted to each others assholes.



I looked at the cast list and there is 1 returning cast member from the 1st film. Not sure if she has a huge role in the film, or if it was like Jay Hernandez showing up in Hostel 2.

Originally Posted by asianxcore (Post 10956560)

Definitely agree with you. I read some of the cuts originally forced for a British release earlier this morning. It's silly for IFC to think all of that is alright but the scene in the article you posted being out of bounds.

I'll re-iterate again that IFC probably wouldn't have purchased the film for Distribution if it wasn't out of bounds. Free advertising for them.

Originally Posted by Giles (Post 10956573)

and I don't see how (or why) Six and IFC even got together in the first place prior to theatrical release - they knew the film was never going to the MPAA - yet IFC execs got nervous and enact some self censoring - I don't remember IFC getting all bent out of shape over 'Anti-Christ's' clitoral slicing scene or the menstrual-sex scene from 'Anatomy of Hell' - talk about singling out one director and one film.