blu rays dvd News | Wanna make your Valentine's Day special? Pick up Human Centipede 2 on DVD and Blu-ray
Wanna make your Valentine's Day special? Pick up Human Centipede 2 on DVD and Blu-ray
January 20, 2012
One movie that I know for a fact that I’ll never see is HUMAN CENTIPEDE. And since it’s not likely that I’ll ever watch the first one, there’s a pretty good chance that HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 is also out of the question. However, there are tons of people that watched both of these movies and while I’m not sure if anyone can ever really say that they liked them (I’m thinking that would make you kind of a crazy person), you could definitely enjoy them for the road that they go down. A road of a whole new type of horror film…
I’m always a firm believer that horror movies should be out in theaters and come out on DVD/Blu-ray in October. To me, releasing these types of movies at any other time of year is like releasing a movie about Christmas in June. So check out my surprise when IFC Films announced that they would be releasing HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 on Valentine’s Day. Whaaaaat? Colour me surprised at the release date choice. They didn’t have some fluffy rom-com to release that day instead?
The synopsis for the film is actually pretty damn lengthy, but I don’t really know enough about the films to cut it down to a shorter length. I’m sure it could be summed up with a few words like horrifying, gross and disturbing, but here’s the gazillion paragraph synopsis for your reading pleasure anyways: ”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.”
Well, again, it’s safe for me to say that I won’t be watching this on Valentine’s Day, or hopefully any other day. However, I shouldn’t be so quick to judge the release of this film on Valentine’s Day… especially since I happen to know several couples who love these kind of movies and watching this on February 14 at home with a big glass of wine would probably make for a very special evening for them.
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 Special Features:
• Commentary with Tom Six and Laurence R. Harvey
• Interview with Tom Six
• Three behind-the-scenes featurettes:
- Set Tour of Warehouse
- Foley Sound Effects
- Making the Poster
• Deleted Scenes
Source: VideoETA
