Somewhere toward the end of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), Tom Six’s follow-up to the notorious 2010 dare of a horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) — after the sequel’s new villain had performed makeshift “surgery” on his twelve victims but before the film’s gruesome, stomach-churning denouement — the woman sitting next to me fell ill and fainted. She came to minutes later, she told me as we waited for medics, only to be greeted by a wall of disorienting, horrifying sounds, a cacophony of screams and even worse noises, accompanied by some of the vilest images ever captured on film. Needless to say, it was agony to live through. But, she said with a brave smile, it reminded her that she was human after all.
Fantastic Fest founder Tim League, introducing the film’s North American premiere Thursday on the opening night of the annual genre festival, joked that EMTs were on hand should anyone feel sick. “You might have noticed there’s an ambulance out front, so if anybody does feel faint or passes out or has cardiac arrest, we are ready,” he announced. Apparently festival folks didn’t think that would really happen; by the time my seatmate was filling up her second complimentary Human Centipede II barf bag, said ambulance had disappeared and we had to call a second to the theater. Thank goodness for practical swag?
Getting so sick you miss the worst of the film and reclaim your sense of human decency may not exactly be Dutch filmmaker Six’s intention, but if you’re going to…
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