Review of The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015)

Initial Thought: The first one was fresh and original. Yes it was really fucked up (pardon me), but it tested boundaries. It was really entertaining. It wasn't something I would watch again though. Then the second one came out and I said what the hell. So I watched it as well. It was even more disturbed than the first one and really made me uncomfortable for watching it. Again I had told myself I wouldn't watch that one again either. In fact it was just not even that good. Now when I heard the 3rd one was coming out and it would be the final one I said fine let's get this over with. I know I will hate it and refuse to watch it again. It's part of my theaters movie group so I decided to check it out with them.

Characters/Acting: There are a few notable returnees to the series other than the main villains. We also get Akihiro Kitamura from part 1, Bill Hutchens from part 2, and Peter Blankenstein who played two different characters from the previous films. Dieter Laser was superbly creepy in the first of this trilogy. Here he was insanely awful. Almost the entire time I couldn't understand what he was saying. His accent is so rough that when he is screaming (which is just about the whole movie) everything he says comes out jumbled. At times it could be kind of funny, but most of the time it just came off extremely annoying. Some of his reactions were pretty disturbing and uncomfortable. At some points it got so awkward and weird I just couldn't help but laugh. Laurence Harvey was much more likeable here though than he was in part 2. He may have came up with the whole idea in this, but at least he thought of prisoners health haha. I still wouldn't want to be caught by him in a dark alley. Bree Olson is used as the sex symbol here. Surprisingly for a porn star you never see anything from her. She does dress and pose in slutty ways though. She also has some of the funnier stuff happen. When I saw one guy I thought it was Efren Ramirez from Napoleon Dynamite. While it was indeed his face it belonged to that of his twin brother Carlos. Well shows who is better of the two brothers. Eric Roberts doesn't do much here as usual. Tom Six is in a good amount of this. His appearance is much better than like whenever you see Uwe Boll in one of his films. Robert LaSardo has to pick the craziest people when he plays criminals. Anyways I was actually rooting for the prisoners most of the time here. Only one time in particular made me hate a few of them though.

Story: Well we know the story psychopaths want to make a centipede out of humans! We get a movieception here though when we find out Human Centipede is a movie in this sequel too as well as Human Centipede 2. So boom neither of the first two take place in the "real world". This is also has the longest runtime of the whole trilogy by about ten minutes. Tom Six wasn't lying about this one being pretty freaking gruesome. Although I do believe one scene in particular in part 2 tops even the cruelest of scenes here. I mean this has some really effed up stuff that's for sure, but killing a newborn with a gas pedal tops anything this had to offer for gruesomeness. I mean here we have a close up of a really cringe-worthy castration, a man eating fried clitorises from castrated females, a man getting shot in a hole where his poop comes out into a bag with blood and shit flying everywhere, a dream sequence of a man getting raped in a stab wound leading to his kidney and while that is all hard to watch I just could not deal with that scene from part 2. If you read that spoiler and still want to see this I honestly don't know how you could. I stuck it through, but it was really tough. I mean yeah some moments did make me laugh (The Human Caterpillar being one that stuck out with another being Tom Six throwing up in disgust) and others made me cringe a lot, but this is something I will definitely never see again. It's just really gross as expected, but it's definitely a bit too much for anyone to ever watch again. Also the end was pretty depressing in my opinion. I mean honestly though despite the gruesomeness I think this could have been at least better if Dieter Laser wasn't such an awful actor here.

Directing/Writing: It seems with each of these films Tom Six digs a bigger grave. I mean it started off with such an interesting yet disturbed concept. It just went downhill from there. You know the interesting thing about the first one is that it was pure horror. It wasn't funny in any sense. The second one had a little humor, but it was still creepy. Then this one was just full of comedic moments. Yes it still had it's disturbed atmosphere including really effed up moments, but it was mostly way to comical. I mean he still came up with a few original ideas here. I don't fault him for his creativity. This guy does have an imagination. I just wish he threw out the comedy and maybe had someone besides Dieter Laser (or had him work on his annunciation) then this could have been a better watch.

Final Thought: This was an awful end to what started off as a brilliantly disturbing idea. It lost it's touch. The series went from horror to this mostly really effed comedy. It had funny moments some of which were because of the absurdity of the situations. The gore was a plenty and could be a bit mortifying. The acting wasn't bad except for Dieter Laser who was really good in the first one. I am really disappointed with him here. I could see this being better had they worked on the comedy and his acting. I highly recommend avoiding this one at all costs. I'm sure most of you are already doing that anyways.