Review... The Human Centipede 3: The Final Sequence

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The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence

The Politically Correct Way To Be Politically Incorrect

I have reviewed The Human Centipede as well as its sequel, so when I attended the premiere of THC3 (the final film in the trilogy, with no plans for the concept to ever be revisited again) I thought writing a review would be fitting.

Whereas THC was stated to be "100% medically accurate" and THC2 was stated to be "100% medically inaccurate," THC3 was marketed as "100% politically incorrect." THC3 is really the "odd one out" of the series; the first two films are particularly dark horror films, but whilst THC3 is extremely gory it is actually a comedy. Frankly I think its the funniest movie I've seen in a very long time.

In THC-series convention, the film looks very different from the previous two installments; the first had a palate mostly composed of either cool colors or stark harsh white, and the second was all in black & white. THC3 is full of warm and vibrant colors along with earthy neutrals, being set in a Southwestern American state with desert scenery. This may seem surprising given the film is set in a prison, but the orange jumpsuits of the inmates fit the palate perfectly.

THC3 tells the story of Bill Boss (gloriously overacted by Dieter Laser, who played the villain of the first film, and who's performance seems to be a monument to amphetamines-induced megalomania); the sadistic warden of a large prison, who's job is under threat due to the fact his prison has incredibly high levels of violence. His assistant, Dwight (played by Lawrence R. Harvey, the actor who portayed the villain of the second film, doing his best to sound Texan), suggests a solution straight out of The Human Centipede films (which are, yes, films-within-the-film); to stitch all the prisoners together in one giant mouth-to-anus chain (in theory that would certainly save a lot on food costs!).

Let us be blunt; this film is a gory comedy. It isn't scary. It is built entirely out of shock humor which exceeds even the most profane South Park episodes. Blood and even shit (and to be fair, both of these match the film's color palate!) are depicted, and there's even a (modest) depiction of semen involved. Even the gruesome and violent scenes of torture perpetrated by Bill Boss are rendered genuinely funny by the beyond-Jim-Carey-level overacting. Almost every single imaginable line is crossed; sexism, racism, homopobia, sexual harassment, rape, colostomy bags, Chron's disease (which has rather frightening implications in the context of the centipede), sexual sadism, female genital mutilation, this film frankly ticks off all the boxes of transgressive humor (apart from, strangely enough, harm to children and hot-button religious issues (for the most part)). This is coupled with an undercurrent of political satire (which I shall look at next). Overall, if you like films like "The Aristocrats" and enjoy the humor of South Park, this film is basically that but with more blood. As a comedy, it works fantastically, although it does require a strong stomach.

But this is an Objectivist movie review, so I am going to look at this film philosophically. Sure, as a comedy I absolutely recommend this film (for those who enjoy shock humor), but whilst this film is clearly transgressive and profane and utterly hilarious, does it live up to its pledge to be "100% Politically Incorrect"?

This is in fact my reason for criticizing the film on a thematic level; "Politically Incorrect" means more than "offensive." "Politically Incorrect" means more than "transgressive." The "Politically Incorrect" means offending specific groups of people and transgressing a specific set of norms. In brief, the "Politically Incorrect" is stuff which offends (or at least is perceived as being offensive to) members of the political Left's favoured identity groups, and stuff which transgresses the political Left's norms and values.

The artworks "Piss Christ" and "The Holy Virgin Mary" are indeed offensive (to some) and transgressive, but they are not Politically Incorrect because they do not offend the right groups and don't transgress the relevant set of norms. But a Draw Mohammed festival? Now that is Politically Incorrect, because according to the ideology of Political Correctness (now rebranded as "Intersectional Social Justice"), that constitutes an attack on a culturally oppressed class of people; to offend and transgress the norms of the culturally oppressed is "punching down" which is the cardinal sin of Intersectional Social Justice. But Christians (particularly Catholics, who's iconography was used in both "Piss Christ" and "The Holy Virgin Mary") are considered a culturally privileged (or at least normative) group, and therefore to offend them and transgress their norms is "punching up" and speaking out against oppression, which is the cardinal virtue of Intersectional Social Justice.

The Politically Incorrect is that which "punches down." The Politically Incorrect is that which makes humor at the expense of groups who are (at least percieved as) victim groups.

Now to be fair, a lot of the devotees of PC will see "punching down" in anything that mocks a victim group, even if that "punch down" was thrown by a villain and the joke in context was intended to make the villain seem even worse. This is a ridiculous viewpoint, but it is one which favours THC3's claim of being "100% Politically Incorrect" (because it lowers the threshold for Political Incorrectness). In the interests of charity, I will treat this ridiculous "depiction = endorsement" standard as sufficient grounds for "punching down."

As THC3 claimed to be "100% Politically Incorrect," I only need to substantiate one instance of "punching up" to prove my case.

Yes, THC3 has sexual harassment, rape, characters who are racist and misogynist and homophobic, ethnic/homophobic/sexist slurs, mockery of the disabled and a whole host of other Politically Incorrect things.

But on a thematic level, THC3's claim to being "100% Politically Incorrect" falls down because THC3 buys wholly into one of the long-running dogmas of the Politically Correct; the belief that America as such is a nation riddled with cultural pathologies. This goes far beyond a belief that America isn't beyond criticism (it clearly is not perfect) and it certainly isn't an argument that America often acts in a contrary manner to its own principles (that, unfortunately, goes without saying) - rather, it is a condemnation of the "American experiment" (i.e. the radical individualism and classical liberalism embodied in the Declaration of Independence) justified by "this horrible problem exists in America!"

The creator of The Human Centipede, Tom Six, is Dutch; no wonder that THC3 comes off as a showcase of everything which Europeans like to hold as emblematic of the "uncivilized" or "barbaric" or "depraved" culture of the United States; guns, cowboys, a whole host of American national symbols (flags and what appears to be a bald eagle), a concern with governments spending too much money, cynical politicians who only care about re-election (as if Europe doesn't have an equally-depraved political class), bigoted and backward attitudes, religion, a brutal and punitively-focused prison system plagued with overcrowding and an excessive desire to lock people up (to be fair this is a huge problem in the US but the film hardly gives some sort of deep and complex look at the causes of this), politicians willing to sanction violations of human rights (although, tellingly, not a single mention is made of the "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" clause in the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution... rather the nation-neutral and European-favored phrase "human rights" is used) whilst declaring that "this is what America needs!" over a soaring rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner...

Of course the US has substantial flaws, and sometimes the film mentions genuine issues and problems within the US. The US has many hypocrites, many unscrupulous career-politicians with no principle, terrible problems with the criminal justice system and a whole assortment of issues that need to be discussed, yet the persistent association of national iconography with all of these problems comes off as an attempt to argue that these are culturally-rooted problems with the "American experiment" itself rather than hypocrisies to be remedied through consistent adherence to the principles of the "American experiment." THC3 argues that the problem with America is that it is being too American, not that it isn't being American enough.

And this is coming from a Continental European. I know nothing about Tom Six's political convictions (apart from the fact he's a believer in completely unrestrained artistic freedom; a noble stance I applaud and share), but I do know a very common sentiment amongst Europeans is that the United States is a cruel, harsh and brutal nation bordering on outright Social Darwinism, lacking in compassion, infested with a monumental level of racism and sexism and general bigotry, with an irrational and borderline-sexual fetish for guns sustained by a "gun culture" that's as intense as its alleged "rape culture." I know many European (not necessarily Continental but you can find this attitude amongst the British and Irish too) people, and this attitude is something they're often inclined towards; I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest Six may share at least some of it. Many Europeans think that the social democracies of Europe are more evolved and civilized and enlightened than the US, and therefore hold America in contempt.

How can I sustain this (admittedly rather serious) charge? I do so by looking at the central character of The Human Centipede 3: Bill Boss (played by Dieter Laser). Bill Boss is indeed overacted beyond the point of parody (it makes the film funnier!), but he effectively serves as an avatar of everything which Europeans often mock about Americans; Boss dresses like a cowboy, always weilds a gun (sometimes an assault rifle but typically a revolver) and uses it primarily to assert demands for respect (yet is often driven to hysterical fits of whimpering by the fact that none of his inmates respect him), and sexually harasses his secretary via digital rape in the opening scene of the movie. He is the warden of George H. W. Bush prison (I think that may have been an error on the filmmaker's part, or perhaps the "H" was put in there to make the film seem less heavy-handed?) and brutally tortures prisoners; he waterboards (so much for subtlety) one of them with boiling water (!), and even castrates another inmate before cooking and eating that inmates testicles. Clearly he goes far beyond the Joe Arpaio threshold. He bellows about his philosophy on justice - "eyes for eyes, teeth for teeth" - whilst inflicting sadistic cruelty on his inmates.

He sexually exploits his secretary more than once and refers to her by sexist names like "Tits." The candy jar on his desk actually contains preserved excised clitorises imported from Africa. Constant streams of racist, homophobic and sexist language spew forth from his mouth in vitriolic rants, with black prisoners frequently described as "apes." The prisoner he first inflicts castration on happens to be the gay prisoner, and when eating that prisoner's cooked testicles he makes the sign of the cross over himself (implying that he is Christian). His homophobia is further implied by the fact he has a nightmare about being raped by the gay inmate, with this rape being given a shockingly gruesome twist when the inmate cuts Boss open just near the kidney and violates the incision. Of course, on more than one occasion Boss confesses to getting erections from dominating and torturing his (all male) inmates, implying that his homophobia may come from repressed same-sex desires.

Boss is explicitly stated to be a German-American (explaining his thick German accent which frankly makes a lot of what he bellows indecipherable), but he is immensely devoted to American nationalism; at one point he tells the Governor of his State that he refuses to smoke Cuban cigars due to Cuba being a communist nation, and impugns the Governor's patriotism for the Governor's insistence on only smoking Cuban cigars. The American flag is present in his office at all times, and in one particularly telling scene after the prison riot, Boss is sitting out in the yard while a bald eagle flies overhead and the camera lingers upon it.

Boss, in effect, is the avatar of basically everything that a European new-leftist associates with American-ness: neoconservatism and the Iraq war, guns, cowboys, racism, misogyny, homophobia, religionism, brutal justice, nationalism/jingoism and anti-communism (I agree that most of these things are in fact bad, but the point is that Boss is intended to represent these things for a perspective that sees them as innate within America).

In addition, let us add Dwight (Boss's accountant) into the mix. Dwight is a fan of The Human Centipede films and suggests the idea to Boss as a cost-saving measure. He continues to reiterate how their jobs are on the line and they need to cut costs, and people are concerned that the government is "spending too much" - whilst this may be interpreted more favorably as a bunch of civil servants willing to go to vicious lengths to protect their jobs, I think in the light of all the above this is a swipe against the proponents of reduced government spending, which in the US means fiscal conservatives.

So the villains in THC3 embody racism, nationalism/jingoism, homophobia, misogyny, Bush-era foreign policy and 'enhanced interrogation methods,' anti-communism, Christianity, guns/"gun culture," cowboys, brutally punitive justice, and fiscal conservatism all at once. The lead villain is repeatedly associated with national iconography and proudly asserts his patriotism, and by the end of the film has managed to convince a cynical and opportunistic politician that sewing prisoners into human centipedes is "what America needs" (with a rousing rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner playing in the background).

In short; the depravities of Bill Boss are as American as an American-with-a-thick-German-accent can possibly be ("As American as Apfelstrudel"?). They are portrayed not as horrendous violations of the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution but rather as if sewing prisoners up into a five-hundred-person human centipede were the Boston Mouth-To-Anus Party.

Politically Incorrect? This picture of what America is like is pretty much identical to the view of America held by the Politically Correct. According to the Politically Correct, America is deeply racist/sexist/homophobic/religionist/socially darwinist and absolutely backwards relative to the "enlightened" and "compassionate" social democracies of Europe, and it is Sweden rather than America whom the world should be trying to emulate. This film, whilst it certainly "punches down" by the standards of Political Correctness, also "punches up" by attacking America and casting America as a uniquely racist-sexist-homphobic-nationalist-religionist-firearm-fetishizing-socially-darwinian hell. The film doesn't portray this as an atrocious violation of American principles, but rather as something deeply rooted within American-ness (even though the main villain is a naturalized American from Germany rather than native-born).

Whilst THC3 has plenty of Politically Incorrect subject matter covering almost every potentially offensive angle, THC3's ultimate themes play into Politically Correct narratives (i.e. the depravity of America as failure of the American Experiment); the film is effectively using Politically Incorrect subject matter to advance a Politically Correct theme. Whatever that does to the numerical rating of the film's level of Political Incorrectness, it surely rules the film out of contention for being "100% Politically Incorrect."

None of the above should be construed as believing America to be beyond criticism; I think the US has massive problems with its criminal justice system. I opposed the Iraq War and Neoconservative foreign policy even when most (but not all) Objectivists were supportive of them. The United States continues to be atypically religious, and religious groups and considerations still have an undue influence on public policy (until recently, it was their worldview which was used to justify the denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples). Nationalism and Jingoism are dangerous things which tore Europe up in two great wars. But THC3 hardly provides any sort of deep or insightful discussion of these flaws, and instead simply defaults to the Politically Correct explanation; "the problem is inherent in American-ness" (which means the American Experiment - the essential ideas behind the United States). As if public prison guard unions and their legal privileges, or left-leaning politicians in general, have had nothing to do with "tough on crime" policies and mass incarceration (particularly in California - hardly a conservative state either socially or fiscally - and both a tough-on-crime state and the state most prone to prison overcrowding). As if racism, nationalism or jingoism are innately American phenomena rather than things which are still extremely prevalent in Europe. The arrogant and patronizing European attitude would do well from looking at the rise of far-right Fascist parties in Europe and the continual tearing-itself-apart that persists along ethnic lines in the Balkans even to this day. And this is without even going into the issue of economics - Greece's situation and Europe's anaemic growth rates coupled with high cost of living make the US look far less harsh or socially-darwinian than the advocates of social democracy claim, and on the issue of safety nets it is perfectly possible to create a safety net without sustaining monolithic bureaucratic classes (a demographic whom, unsurprisingly, are ideologically inclined towards social democracy).

Yes, THC3 has an annoying thematic streak of anti-American-ness. But you know what? The film is still side-splittingly funny, even if it indulges in the kind of prejudices about America one expects from a pretentious Parisian Gauche-Caviar pseudointellectual. Just don't go expecting it to be "100% Politically Incorrect," because unless you turn your brain off you'll be somewhat disappointed.

Overall, THC3 is a blisteringly offensive and transgressive comedy film that manages to redefine the standard for Dead Baby Comedy (although, unlike THC2, the film lacks any dead babies). It is not as Politically Incorrect as you might think due to how it is tainted with what appears to be a European attitude of disdain towards America: a very Politically Correct narrative. Apart from that, the subject matter certainly manages to slaughter many sacred cows.

"90% Politically Incorrect" is more true to reality, but isn't really a good tagline.

[Brant Gaede]

Your review is not recommended. An "Objectivist movie review" is just one more reason for me (or anyone) not to call myself an "Objectivist." It's become an out-of-the-box slander and now, I think, inevitable. Rand and Branden were on to something back in the 1960s with their exclusiveness, even if they didn't know or understand they were working off a basic mistake they created by making the philosophy a cultural lard on on top of simple, basic principles we can call "intellectual." Now it's just a cultural dump. Not even shit is excluded.

I am not mixing up the review with the movie with Objectivism. You did, by content, label, context and putting it up on an Objectivist site. Sometimes the best review is no review, especially by intelligent people. Since intelligence suffuses this review, you've failed that way too. It might have worked with satire. That's the only thing this "thing" deserves, considering your description.

Finally, where is the Objectivism in your purported "Objectivist movie review"? All I see are the unfortunate results of a modern Liberal Arts education similar in its brain effects as Tony's Objectivist education. Two different kinds of Borg. You have been assimilated. Tony might survive. He's bravely shouting "Help!", he just doesn't know it. He's engageable. To engage you means being assimilated in turn, and failing. Everybody drowns, except you. You have gills.

--Brant

[Brant Gaede]

Your review is not recommended. An "Objectivist movie review" is just one more reason for me (or anyone) not to call myself an "Objectivist." It's become an out-of-the-box slander and now, I think, inevitable. Rand and Branden were on to something back in the 1960s with their exclusiveness, even if they didn't know or understand they were working off a basic mistake they created by making the philosophy a cultural lard on on top of simple, basic principles we can call "intellectual." Now it's just a cultural dump. Not even shit is excluded.

I am not mixing up the review with the movie with Objectivism. You did, by content, label, context and putting it up on an Objectivist site. Sometimes the best review is no review, especially by intelligent people. Since intelligence suffuses this review, you've failed that way too. It might have worked with satire. That's the only thing this "thing" deserves, considering your description.

Finally, where is the Objectivism in your purported "Objectivist movie review"? All I see are the unfortunate results of a modern Liberal Arts education similar in its brain effects as Tony's Objectivist education. Two different kinds of Borg. You have been assimilated. Tony might survive. He's bravely shouting "Help!", he just doesn't know it. He's engageable. To engage you means being assimilated in turn, and failing. Everybody drowns, except you. You have gills.

--Brant

On a second reading I'm not quite so much offended. It's instructive of European leftism comes to the movies, but they're just Marxists attacking America--same sort of people who gave Cambodia Pol Pot. He and his murdered 2-3 million Cambodians. It's going to be interesting to see how they deal with Muslims and Islam come to Europe. Marxists are fascists at heart, but the Jihadists are fascists' fascists and might get hit with a classical fascist "solution" from the right, sweeping both groups aside while destroying the civilization we like to think of in a warm fuzzy way as "enlightened" and "European."

[moralist]

The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence

Leftist crap slinging.

Greg

[studiodekadent]

And here I was thinking there would be some substantial commentary...

First, to Brant, accusing me of being a Randroid is both offensive and patently false. I've freely stated my disagreements with Rand. I am not some fundamentalist and I think Peikoff is a douche.

Second, also to Brant, I stated that the attitude of the film smacked of (amongst other things) Social Democracy, which isn't Marxism (it is founded on a similar moral belief system but a Social Democracy is effectively a regulated mixed economy with significant wealth redistribution). Marxism requires collective ownership of the means of production and the abolition of profit; this is far more extreme than Social Democracy. Social Democracy is arguably an economically Fascist ideology. Now, this is hardly the opposite of Marxism and philosophically it is closer to Marxism than it is to Enlightenment Individualism, but it would be a substantial overstatement and mischaracterization to treat the two ideologies identically. Also, Social Democrats may not be socially liberal (by which I mean socially laissez-faire) but they aren't social totalitarians either, which is more than we can say for Marxists or Fascists.

But the social democracy really isn't the primary aspect; it was more a general smug European attitude towards Americans and American society in general. Social democracy (versus the US's somewhat less controlled economy... which is still social democratic in some respects) is a portion of this, but not ALL of it. Its a component part.

Finally, to Greg,

So, no deep discussion or commentary? Calling the film "leftist crap slinging" is a bit of an exaggeration, because many of the things thematically mocked by the film are bad by classically liberal standards. Bush-era foreign policy was terrible (on the moral, political and fiscal levels), waterboarding and "enhanced interrogation methods" were atrocious, jingoism is dangerous-as-fuck, and the US really does have substantial problems within the criminal justice system (particularly within California). Where the film went wrong is in portraying these things as inherently American, innate to the American Experiment, rather than savage betrayals of American principles (which is what they in fact are).

But look, one annoying theme doesn't destroy the entertainment value of the film (I would say the same about Pacific Rim, which was entertaining in spite of the fact the main theme was massively collectivist (thankfully there was a subplot with a resoundingly individualist theme as well)). At least if one isn't averse to shock humor, this film is still entertaining.

[Brant Gaede]

I didn't accuse Andrew of being a "Randroid", not even Tony. Being a Randroid requires superficial acquisition of Objectivism then grabbing this philosophical football and running for the goal line. There are very few people like that left. It's so 1960s. Randroidism doesn't require a highly developed matrix for highly intelligent people. Such people soon move on, to different places or matrixes. The best matrixes are likely unique or rare. They don't come with a lot of company. This is a general statement. The worst matrixes tend to pull in too many people, like a mob. This has little to do with a general sharing of values. A good scientist, qua science at least, chooses a reality matrix or, more generally, qua science still, the matrix of reality. So all I'm doing here is saying, no, no, no--choose the reality matrix; you're closer than you think but some strong walls need to be broken down.

--Brant

[Brant Gaede]

And here I was thinking there would be some substantial commentary...

First, to Brant, accusing me of being a Randroid is both offensive and patently false. I've freely stated my disagreements with Rand. I am not some fundamentalist and I think Peikoff is a douche.

Second, also to Brant, I stated that the attitude of the film smacked of (amongst other things) Social Democracy, which isn't Marxism (it is founded on a similar moral belief system but a Social Democracy is effectively a regulated mixed economy with significant wealth redistribution). Marxism requires collective ownership of the means of production and the abolition of profit; this is far more extreme than Social Democracy. Social Democracy is arguably an economically Fascist ideology. Now, this is hardly the opposite of Marxism and philosophically it is closer to Marxism than it is to Enlightenment Individualism, but it would be a substantial overstatement and mischaracterization to treat the two ideologies identically. Also, Social Democrats may not be socially liberal (by which I mean socially laissez-faire) but they aren't social totalitarians either, which is more than we can say for Marxists or Fascists.

But the social democracy really isn't the primary aspect; it was more a general smug European attitude towards Americans and American society in general. Social democracy (versus the US's somewhat less controlled economy... which is still social democratic in some respects) is a portion of this, but not ALL of it. Its a component part.

Finally, to Greg,

So, no deep discussion or commentary? Calling the film "leftist crap slinging" is a bit of an exaggeration, because many of the things thematically mocked by the film are bad by classically liberal standards. Bush-era foreign policy was terrible (on the moral, political and fiscal levels), waterboarding and "enhanced interrogation methods" were atrocious, jingoism is dangerous-as-fuck, and the US really does have substantial problems within the criminal justice system (particularly within California). Where the film went wrong is in portraying these things as inherently American, innate to the American Experiment, rather than savage betrayals of American principles (which is what they in fact are).

But look, one annoying theme doesn't destroy the entertainment value of the film (I would say the same about Pacific Rim, which was entertaining in spite of the fact the main theme was massively collectivist (thankfully there was a subplot with a resoundingly individualist theme as well)). At least if one isn't averse to shock humor, this film is still entertaining.

Social democracy is Marxism with the theoretical balls cut off. Marxism in turn is fascist at the root. Every theoretical system that doesn't support freedom supports fascism. Now this root fascism is no theory at all. There is a theoretical fascism which like Marxism feeds off this same root--or feeds the root too--which is merely the initiation of physical force. Freedom is of the right. All else is to the left of it, including, for instance, Nazism and communism which are merely left and right to each other, not freedom, to which they are collectively left of, over there in the moral garbage pile, supposedly making the trains run on time.

Now, except for the (root) fascism I may have misrepresented "social democracy." There are so many aliens vs humans in this War of the Worlds scenario it's hard to see inside the machines to tell them apart. No real need to. Who gives a shit? The bug of freedom is gonna get 'em all. Fascism--root fascism--is just the machine they need for their conquesting. Sometimes they even fight each other. The sundry philosophical crap they may use is just to distract their victims and waste their time or recruit new aliens from the human alienated.

--Brant

"Prisoners? No, no prisoners!" (What the captain said to me when I told him in the debriefing I had wanted to take one.)

[moralist]

So, no deep discussion or commentary?

Not from me.

You're sick.

Greg

[Brant Gaede]

Deep down I'm shallow.

[Brant Gaede]

The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence

Leftist crap slinging.

Greg

You beat me to it. Now I'm jealous.

--Brant

beware "The Wrath of Khan!"

https://youtu.be/s0gk3AXEKUE

[moralist]

https://youtu.be/s0gk3AXEKUE

God, I laughed so hard!

All I could think of was a Corboda with rich Corinthian leather seats.

Greg

[Brant Gaede]

https://youtu.be/s0gk3AXEKUE

God, I laughed so hard!

All I could think of was a Corboda with rich Corinthian leather seats.

Greg

https://youtu.be/tfKHBB4vt4c

[Jules Troy]

Who the hell would even WATCH that never mind bother review it..

It doesn't even have cowbell!

[Brant Gaede]

Andrew left a week ago. Looking for deeper waters, I suspect.

Why he brought that leftist European bilge in here for a public autopsy for value is really beyond me. There may be gold in crap but I'd rather earn a dollar. France peaked at Yorktown. That was its one true glory.

--Brant

[Jules Troy]

Maybe he can hook up with Naomi for a brainstorm of everything irrelevant in life...

[Selene]

Andrew left a week ago.

--Brant

KEEPER OF THE OL TIMECLOCK

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I didn't read this thread until now.

When I saw the length of the review, I thought I better get a gist of the films first.

I like Andrew and I want to do his efforts justice.

So I went to Wikipedia: The Human Centipede

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a "human centipede", a conjoined triplet.

Hmmmmmm...

Er...

Ahh...

I gotta wait a bit until the mood hits.

This is definitely not about a Randian hero.

Michael