The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) 2011

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: I'm striving to maintain a neutral tone here because I think that's the best way to deflate this silly, clever, disgusting and ultimately meaningless project to a reasonable scale. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: All Six is going for, with the generous application of both hardware supplies to the skin and feces to the camera, is a tired commentary on his shallow talents: They're excremental. Read more

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: This is surely hell, as a godless Dante or Bosch might paint it. Read more

Andy Webster, New York Times: A lurid, splattery wallow in grime, blood and excrement. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Six manages to find the one element that could have made his idea even more noxious, a strong whiff of pretension... Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The movie is a reductio ad absurdum, a sick joke taken to extremes, beginning with a goof on the notion that horror movies inspire copycats and ending with a test to determine whether some people will watch anything. Read more

William Goss, MSN Movies: It's everything that there was to loathe before and then some. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: The first Human Centipede had audacity on its side. Human Centipede II has only excess. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It's hard to tell whether [Six] made "The Human Centipede 2" to titillate his audience or to mock it. And after a while, it is hard to care. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) could be the sickest B movie ever made. But that's why you may feel gripped by the horror of what you're seeing and the terror of what's coming. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Whatever gothic originality the first Human Centipede possessed is altogether lacking in this sorry follow-up. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Six has in essence backed himself into a rhetorical corner, leaving as perhaps the only option for his next stunt something in which the filmmaker Tom Six winds up with his mouth surgically attached to his own anus. Read more

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V.A. Musetto, New York Post: 'The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)'' is sick, disgusting and vile. It's also demonically funny, stylish and ingenious. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film is reprehensible, dismaying, ugly, artless and an affront to any notion, however remote, of human decency. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The film is in black-and-white so the gore doesn't spray quite as colorfully. But you'll still puke up a storm. Read more

Daniel Engber, Slate: Human Centipede 1 allowed for some lowball entertainment. Human Centipede 2 offers only sadism. Here's the best I can say about Tom Six: The man has managed to outdo himself, for better or for worse. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: In stark contrast to the original's cool, clinical horror, Martin's cack-handed creation of the arse-to-mouth creature is played for cheap, sick slapstick laughs. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: More boring than stomach-churning, the film nevertheless contains scattered scenes and sequences so far beyond the tolerance of the squeamish that it can't be overstated. Read more

Karina Longworth, Village Voice: Once Six's conceptual project becomes clear, his escalating audience-mocking torture is increasingly pointless. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Dismal, nauseating and yet bizarrely artful... Read more