summary: Two pretty but ditsy American girls are on a road trip through Europe. In Germany, they end up alone at night and when their car breaks down, they take shelter in an isolated villa. They wake in the morning to find themselves in a makeshift hospital along with a Japanese man. Here they meet a psychotic German surgeon whose life-long fantasy is to connect humans together via their gastric systems.
review: An unfortunate classic. The shock movie everyone knows about. I first watched this movie with my friends, and our reactions weren't exactly positive. The movie is really... flawed. The writing is very terrible, the characters are idiots, and medically inaccurate despite it's marketing. If you're going into this movie, you'll be spending 30% of the time shocked and 70% of the time angry at the characters for their decision making. The only reason it's two stars for me is because I actually find the concept really interesting, the cinematography in this movie is done really well, and I thought Katsuro's speech at the end was well-executed and could've done more for the movie's themes. It's just a shame that an idea for a body horror movie with so much potential was executed so poorly...
summary: Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project. He works the night shift as a security guard in an equally grim and foreboding underground parking complex. To escape his dreary existence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the cult horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009), fetishizing the meticulous surgical skills of the gifted Dr. Heiter, whose knowledge of the human gastrointestinal system inspires Martin to attempt the unthinkable. Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
review: Yeah this is the worst one in the trilogy lmao. This movie was created in relatiation of critics claiming the first Human Centipede "wasn't gory enough" and that reason alone makes it a shitty movie. It's basically everything you thought the first movie was gonna be. The pacing was awful, cramming all of the horror into the last 30 minutes. The first hour is unbelievably boring, and the 'setup' doesn't lead to much. The score for this movie was pretty decent, but that's about it. Would not reccommend you watch, and I don't plan on rewatching this anytime soon.
summary: On the last day of school, a 12-year-old girl sets up a secret meeting with a boy. The intimate talk quickly spins out of control, leading to an unexpected ending.
review: The summary is basically 70% of the entire movie. I can't say much else without going into spoiler territory. I won't lie, it's a bit of a boring watch. The first half is just introducing the main 3 characters, (including a character that doesn't do much for the plot in the long run), Gabrysia, Czarek, and Szymek. Gabrysia is a normal young girl with a decent home life and a lack of responsibilities, but the two other boys, Czarek and Szymek have somewhat difficult lives. Syzmek, the boy Gabrysia has a crush on, takes on a lot of the responsibilities of the house, walking the dog, cooking, and taking care of his disabled father. He's more on the behaved side compared to his best friend Czarek, who's a foul-mouthed, disrespectful kid who clearly got his attitude from his environment. He's sharing a bedroom with his infant sister, who's crying annoys him. The two boys are pretty typical for their age, albeit they go off and smoke occasionally. Now, the last 30% of the movie: The reason anyone even watched this in the first place. Gabrysia meets up with Szymek, with Szymek bringing Czarek along in secret. The confession doesn't go well, with Szymek rejecting Gabrysia cruelly and insulting her. Czarek reveals himself, and the two boys attempt to assault Gabrysia while recording the ordeal, and she fights back and manages to get away from the two boys. Up until this point, you'd think Czarek and Szymek are just two brats who don't have manners, and this scene was intended to show the lack of empathy and heartlessness of the two boys, with Gabrysia being the red herring that makes way for the actual cruelty of the movie. They watch the video, then the two go off to the shopping mall to get a video game, which leads to the horrific ending. They spot an unsupervised toddler, and the two boys take him. The rest of the movie has practically no dialogue, showing scenes of the boys leaving the mall through a CCTV style shot (a detail I really liked), taking the toddler to the playground, playing with him, and then finally, a railroad. While there, out of nowhere, they brutally beat the toddler to death. It's shot where you can see the murder from far away, and I thought that made it so much more horrifying than if it was shot up close. The toddler screams, cries, and even tries to run away, but the boys beat him down and eventually kill him by bashing his head with rocks. The boys stand there for a moment, and eventually drag the body onto the railroad track. The movie ends with a close up shot of the two boys staring off into the distance, sitting in silence. I think the ending, while definitely one that genuinely disturbed me, was one where I think the buildup for it wasn't worth it. The movie is mostly just kids being kids, and there's little to no implications of how cruel these boys really are. There were plenty of scenes where it was just Czarek and Szymek, and I think there should've been more effort to showcase and foreshadow the ending. The ending was also a near carbon copy of the 1993 murder of James Bulger. The purpose of this movie was to showcase how cruel children can be, and in contrast to Gabrysia, children born into bad environments have the potential to do bad things. I think the cinematography was well done, but I think the pacing and overall story could use some improvement. All in all, it's not a bad movie.