There’s something almost quaint about the glee with which Tom Six and co. are promoting Human Centipede 2 as little more than a shameless exercise in excessive depravity and most-fucked-up-everdom. It reminds one of the heady days of 2007 when our cultural desensitization hit a breaking point and allowed a porn video of two shit-loving ladies into our water cooler discussions. It was a moment of cultural realization that we were not only comforted by the idea of the internet being completely free and unregulated, but that we were comforted by the fact that it already contained the worst of the worst. We were all getting to witness together the lowest of the low together, and it better prepared us for a reality in which Real Housewives of Fucking Anywhere were entertainment icons for shoveling each other’s shit back and forth.
Well Human Centipede 2 is bringing that quaint notion back with a trailer that seems to contain only audio from the actual film, but is centered around reactions to the film from all sorts of people. It recalls the 2 Girls, 1 Cup reaction videos that became all the rage and set a precedent that murdered itself when tweens started filming their own reactions to watching Twilight trailers for the first time. It’s unlikely that any of these people in the HC2 trailer are watching the actual footage, but the idea of it is cute while it oddly celebrates the fact that Australia of all places is getting the uncut film where the UK and the US are not.
You’ll recall that Tom Six promised to make exactly what he’s made long ago, and that all word points to him having lived up to his own hype (at least in terms of sheer depravity).
Still not sure when I’ll be seeing HC2, but I growing increasingly convinced that I’ll need to bring a small trash can with me, and that it’s going to be tough finding a date for that movie night.