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THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) PREMIERES UNCUT VIA FACEBOOK SOCIAL CINEMA

Posted Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 - 3 Comments »
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Special One-Month Showing Leads to Film’s DVD Release on Feb 14

New York, NY (January 17, 2012) – IFC Midnight announced today that the un-cut version of Tom Six’s controversial horror film THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE PART 2 (FULL SEQUENCE), featuring one of the most graphic scenes in cinematic history, is available to audiences for the first time, via streaming, on Facebook’s new Social Cinema, where users will be able to interact with the film in a variety of ways including sharing clips and quotes with friends. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE PART 2 (FULL SEQUENCE), along with its predecessor THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE), is available on Facebook for one-month before it hits its DVD release on February 14.

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE PART 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) was originally released by IFC Films on October 7th, 2011 followed by its Video on Demand premiere on October 12th.  The film, a sequel to Six’s original film THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE), focuses on a new villain named Martin (Lawrence R. Harvey) who is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project.  Martin works the night shift as a security guard in an equally grim and foreboding underground parking complex.  To escape his drearyexistence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the cult horror film THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE), fetishizing the meticulous surgical skills of the gifted Dr. Heiter, whose knowledge of the human gastrointestinal system inspires Martin to attempt the unthinkable.

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) opened in the Spring of 2010 and became a cultural phenomenon.  It was discussed on shows including the primetime Emmys, South Park, Parks and Recreation, and 30 Rock.  The first film featured an obsessed doctor who surgically joins his unsuspecting victims together, and was one of IFC’s biggest on-demand successes of all time, while also continuously selling out midnight screenings nationwide.   The original film premiered at Fantastic Fest in 2009, receiving the awards for Best Horror Film and Best Actor, and also took home Best Picture at the 2009 Scream Fest. The film also won Most Memorable Mutilation at the 2010 Scream Awards.

IFC Midnight is a sister division to IFC Films and Sundance Selects, and is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc.

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE PART 2 (FULL SEQUENCE): https://apps.facebook.com/sundancenow/movies/297

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE): https://apps.facebook.com/sundancenow/movies/320

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About IFC MIDNIGHT

Established in 2010 and based in New York City, IFC Midnight is a leading U.S. distributor of genre entertainment including horror, science-fiction, thrillers, erotic art house, action and more.  Its unique distribution model makes independent genre films available to a national audience by releasing them in theaters as well as on cable’s Video On Demand (VOD) platform, reaching nearly 50 million homes. Some of the company’s successes have included Tom Six’s controversial horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), Johnnie To’s Hong Kong revenge thriller Vengeance, and James Gunn’s Super starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon. Upcoming IFC Midnight releases include Alexandre Courtes THE INCIDENT and Adrian and Romero Garcia Bogliano’s PENUMBRA. IFC Midnight is a sister division to Sundance Selects and IFC Films, and is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc.

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3 Responses to “THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) PREMIERES UNCUT VIA FACEBOOK SOCIAL CINEMA”

  1. Keil Shults says:
    January 17, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    Why would they choose this as the first title for their Social Cinema experiment?

  2. yvonne says:
    January 25, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    i love this movie and so looking forward to itz sequel

  3. Richelle says:
    March 14, 2015 at 7:58 am

    Υou’ve goot noo іdea how long I’ve been looking foг ѕmething such as this.
    Geat job!

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon