9. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
Not that the expectations for this concluding chapter were particularly high, but if nothing else, Tom Six is a filmmaker with the appeal of an early 70s John Waters you might not like his outrageous narratives, but you cant help being curious about them. Disappointingly, this final sequence has nothing to offer not the oddly compelling horror of the first instalment, nor the scathing satire of the second film. Like a dirty old man exposing himself to schoolgirls, it wants to be shocking, but instead its just sad. The plot concerns a barking mad prison governor who wants to create a 500-person human centipede, but Six has become a satirist of the Uwe Boll school who hits every target with a sledgehammer and, worst of all, thinks that rape gags are funny. Just like Boll in Postal, he even makes a cameo (as Himself) in his own movie, but unlike his German counterpart, nobody shoots him in the balls.
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
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