Whatever nonsensical artistic rationalization Six uses to justify The Human Centipede 2, the result leaves you feeling empty and flat, if annoyed by its lack of substance and scares.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 7, 2023

One of the most horrific displays of sheer tastelessness the cinema has ever seen.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Without suspense, graphic gore doesn't accomplish anything except making you look like you're trying too hard.

| Mar 12, 2019

Laurence R. Harvey turns in an excellent performance, but there is no escaping the knowledge of a rapidly hashed idea.

| Feb 28, 2019

Unfortunately [director Tom] Six gets too involved in his own self-fandom, revisiting the parts of his original movie that didn't need revisiting.

| May 23, 2018

Most children give up their poop obsession by age four. Tom Six still hasn't.

| Aug 26, 2015

The gratuitous and exploitative nature of the violence, coupled with very little story development and plot, makes for a film without any real purpose other to shock and appall.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Feb 11, 2013

Rather than trying to entertain us, director Tom Six goes all out in an attempt to make us sick, to offend our very sensibilities. He has succeeded. And screw him for that.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 10, 2012

Mocks torture porn while being the worst form of it all at the same time, The Human Centipede II personifies what not to do with a sequel.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Feb 17, 2012

It's not just graphic; it's contemptuous.

| Feb 3, 2012

It tries to be more disgusting, more outrageous than this idea of a 12-person human centipede. The result is, by design, absolutely no good.

| Jan 4, 2012

Uses its status as a meta film to comment on the contentious argument that violence in cinema can somehow can be blamed for violence in real life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 27, 2011

Excruciating and horrendous...

| Nov 27, 2011

Full Sequence could be considered an interesting counterpart to Gus van Sant's Elephant... But what it lacks in the subtlety of van Sant's film, it makes up with scenes of genital mutilation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2011

The enormous shift in stylistic focus between [Six's] first and second film and the technical skill he displays (notably in his superb sound design) suggests he has much to offer beyond the self-imposed limitations of his bum-to-gum oddities.

| Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

monochrome mise en scne and surrealist flourishes more reminiscent of Eraserhead and Bad Boy Bubby than of anything in conventional horror.

| Nov 16, 2011

I'll grant benefit of the doubt. Right before I huddle in the fetal position and ease my fractured soul with a few hours of Fraggle Rock.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2011

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 11, 2011

It shifts effortlessly between a twisted study in obsessive psychosis and barbed sardonic satire.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2011