10 Most Insufferable Film Sequels Since 2000

10. The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

Whatever points director Tom Six wanted to make in The Human Centipede: First Sequence were delivered with brute force, but this sequel has a different agenda. In order to mock the first film’s critics, Six resorts to puerile shock tactics that quickly become tiresome.

According to the BBFC, who initially banned the film, Full Sequence is about a character who is aroused by “the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture and murder of his naked victims.” After using sandpaper to masturbate over a DVD of The Human Centipede, Martin (Laurence Harvey) kidnaps 12 people (none of whom are portrayed sympathetically) in order to make his own “centipede.” As he smashes their teeth and severs their tendons, you could be forgiven for thinking you’re watching some squalid grindhouse movie meant for 42nd Street in the 1970s.

But no – the movie was made to degrade and humiliate a modern crowd, and only serves to prove that our few remaining taboos aren’t worth breaking. Six’s checklist of perversions brings to mind what Kim Newman said about John Waters – he’s really an adolescent boy seeing how far he can go before he’s sent to his room.