Ruptured Review: The Human Centipede 3 [Final Sequence]

Country of origin- USA 

Year of release- 2015  

Director- Tom Six   

Stars- Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey, Tom Six, Bree Olson, Eric Roberts                                            

It is a first for me to review a sequel without first discussing its predecessors, but I feel that the phenomena that is the Human Centipede films, particularly 1&2 almost does not need an introduction as the majority of people reading this will have already seen them.

This film begins where Full Sequence left off, and we see in typical Tom Six style it that it was in fact a film within a film, and that First Sequence is now a film within a film, within a film. As the credits roll on Full Sequence we see that it is being watched by Bill Boss (Dieter Laser) the governor of maximum security prison bound by barren desert somewhere in The United States. He has been made to watch it, and First Sequence, as part of a proposal by his accountant Dwight Butler (Laurence R. Harvey) to try and come up with a solution to the prison’s failure, both economic and internal. But Bill Boss refuses to listen to the proposal, and instead decides to reduce violence amongst prisoners through various barbaric and sadist tortures, including boiling water boarding and castration. But when these foul methods fail to control the prisons population and the ever increasingly deranged Bill Boss’s job hangs in the balance he turns to the advice of his accountant and Tom Six who plays himself. Eventually it is decided that the most cost effective way to reduce disobedience amongst prisoners is to create a 500 person human prison centipede.

This film had a lot of potential to fail miserably, but I am almost joyful when I say to you that it most certainly did not! This has to be the most outrageously over the top, batshit crazy, revolting, pitch black comedic horror film I have ever seen. And in my mind that is down to two people, the first being Tom Six who wrote and directed the film with what appears to be an almost manic energy that seeps from the screen and chokes the audience. His writing is frankly superb when it comes to the most “shocking” and “offensive” scenes in the film, which includes such gems as the line “Thank god for female circumcision” as the Bill Boss character holds a jar of dried clitorises which he proceeds to snack from.

This brings me on to the second person who is as important to the film as Tom Six in my opinion, and that is of course the brilliant Dieter Laser who plays one of the most insane characters to ever grace our screens. His unpredictable manic sadism is intoxicating to the viewer, as we see him delivering some of the most bizarre and deranged lines I have ever heard. His performance is frankly unmatchable in this film, and I say that with a great deal of respect towards Laurence R. Harvey who delivers a good performance as the down trodden, yet psychotic Dwight Butler.

However, putting aside the superb writing and acting for just a moment let me address why this film in my opinion has been so poorly received amongst not only critics, but many horror fans around the world. It is because this film is essentially the result of the abyss staring back as Nietzsche would have put it. This film takes the darkest core of humanity and shows it to the audience and laughs at just how ludicrous it is, and it does this with a concept so vile that all you can do is to laugh along with it. And it is this idea that so many people simply haven’t understood, and have instead interpreted the film as nothing more than trash. This film needs to be essential viewing for everybody and I wholeheartedly recommend it until I’m blue in the face. The Human Centipede 3 [Final Sequence] gets a 9/10 from me, it has to be seen to be believed.