The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is a 2011 exploitation horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Tom Six. An international co-production of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and the sequel to Six's 2009 film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), the film stars Laurence R. Harvey as a psychiatrically and intellectually impaired English man who watches and becomes obsessed with the first Human Centipede film, and decides to make his own "centipede" consisting of 12 people, including Ashlynn Yennie, an actress from the first film.
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) received substantial attention and controversy for its graphic depictions of violence, sexual violence and body horror. It was subject to heavy censorship throughout the world, where it was sometimes edited to remove objectionable content or banned altogether. It was critically panned by critics, with much criticism focused on its acting, plot, and violence.
Plot[]
In the tollbooth of a parking garage in east London, Martin Lomax is watching The Human Centipede (First Sequence) on his laptop, a film he is obsessed with, complete with his own scrapbook composed of images and scenes from the original film. Short, overweight, asthmatic, and mentally challenged Martin lives with his overbearing and emotionally abusive mother, who blames him for having his father put in prison for physically and sexually abusing Martin when he was a boy. Dr. Sebring, Martin's psychiatrist, also touches him inappropriately and prescribes him heavy medication. Martin keeps a pet centipede, to which he gleefully feeds insects.
Martin acquires a dingy warehouse after killing the leaser named Jake and begins abducting people to use for his own human centipede. His victims include: Ian, an aggressive young man and his girlfriend Kim; Alan, a man who complains about the ATM having no cash; Tim, a rich man and his pregnant wife Rachel who have a toddler, whom Martin leaves in the back seat of their car uninjured; Valerie and Karrie, two drunk girls who catch Martin masturbating with sandpaper to the scene from the original film where Dr. Heiter wakes the centipede up, and another man named Greg (Martin’s first victim). When Martin's mother finds and destroys his scrapbook, Martin kills her by letting his pet centipede pinch her face, then bludgeoning her head with a crowbar until her skull caves in. He then lures his detested neighbour, Dick, to the scene, shoots, and kidnaps him. Martin also catches Dr. Sebring and a cabbie named Paul having sex with a prostitute named Candy, and proceeds to kill Sebring before abducting both Paul and Candy. Martin's final victim is Ashlynn Yennie, the actress who played "Jenny" in the first film, whom Martin lures under false pretenses of being Quentin Tarantino's casting agent.
With twelve victims, Martin begins assembling his "centipede". He severs the ligaments in each person's knees to prevent them from fleeing and uses a hammer to knock out their teeth. He slices open the buttocks of one of his victims, Alan, causing him to bleed to death. In a quick change of plan, instead of actual surgery tools, he uses a staple gun and duct tape to attach each person's lips to the next person's buttocks. During the assembly process, Rachel is presumed dead; a grieving Martin places her in the corner. His "human centipede" is ultimately ten people long with Ashlynn in front.
After performing the crude procedure, Martin begins experimenting. Disturbed by Ashlynn's screams, he tears her tongue out with pliers. He then injects each victim with a syringe of laxative, forcing each of them to explosively evacuate their bowels into the mouth of the person behind them, the sight of which causes Martin to gleefully laugh before vomiting in disgust. After pausing, he then wraps his genitals in barbed wire and rapes Kim (who’s at the end of his "centipede"). As he finishes, Rachel awakens and runs outside screaming, apparently in labour. She leaps into a victim's car and bears her child. She then gets onto the road, but as she starts the engine, she stomps on the accelerator, crushing the baby's skull under the pedal. She still manages to escape.
Dick rips his face from the person in front of him, separating the "centipede" into two-halves. Furious that his centipede is ruined, Martin shoots all the victims, and when he runs out of ammunition, uses a knife to slit the throats of the remaining victims. As he advances on Ashlynn, he appears to give pause, and kneels in front of her. She punches him in the genitals, shoves the funnel into his rectum, and drops his pet centipede into it. In agony, Martin stabs her in the neck and staggers out. Ashlynn is seen slightly moving afterwards.
The scene cuts back to the tollbooth, with Martin watching the credits of First Sequence on his laptop, with exactly the same reaction as the initial scene, implying the events that followed had never actually happened.