A Year of Garbage Movies #32, “The Human Centipede III: Final Sequence” (2015)

Not content to rape our eyeballs with over-the-top violence and scatology twice, Tom Six decides to bust the old centipede out for one more spin before hopefully retiring to a more benign hobby like pulling the wings off of flies.

The second installment of the film occupied a slot much earlier in this list. While we have now entered a zone where saying that any of these movies is worse than the others is almost meaningless, it’s safe to say that this one manages to one-up the previous entries if for no other reason than it’s shot in color this time.

Dumping another meta-layer on top of the narrative of the first two films, we follow an insane prison warden and his accountant as they attempt to create a 500-person centipede out of the occupants of the prison. Naturally, they got the idea after watching the first two films. Recall, the plot of the second movie is some dude trying to create a large centipede after watching the first film. Six decided to take the union of the two, and bring back Dieter Larsen and the guy from the second film in different roles.

Again, there’s nothing redeeming about this movie. It’s an hour and a half of broken bones, graphic castrations, raping a torso wound, feces, buttholes, etc.. etc.. etc… I’m sure if Tom Six thought for one second he could milk another film out of this tired idea he would, but it seems like we’re finally safe. Then again the only novel concept he brought to this movie is that the centipede is longer, so maybe not.

I couldn’t even be bothered to look up what a centipede actually looks like

Pros:

• Literally the only thing at all entertaining about this movie is the absolutely insane performance that Dieter Larsen pulls off as the warden. He plays the insane doctor in the first film, and somehow manages to top the absolutely ape-shit performance from that one.

Cons:

• Literally everything else. I guess we’re supposed to still be shocked by racial slurs and mangled flesh, but at this point it’s become so try-hard and 2edgy4me that it’s just annoying. Even more annoying than last time.