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NEWS FILM MUSIC CULTURE EVENTS DVD GAMING SPORTS MEDIA BLOGS The Channel Surfer DVD Dish interviews Movie Reviews Projections Special Features FILMINTERVIEWS ashlynn yennie and Martin (Laurence R. harvey) in The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) THE HUMAN cENTipEdE 2 (fUll sEqUENcE) ashlynn yennie is back for seconds. By kRiSTina BRaVo every onCe in a While, a filM So ShoCking comes out that it causes a collective jaw drop, some in extreme amazement and in many cases in revolt – or maybe even both. For this generation, The Human Centipede definitely takes the cake. Now it’s back for seconds. Dutch filmmaker Tom Six, responsible for the concept and its execution, remarks, “When I was writing the first part, I had so many ideas that I couldn’t put in the first sequence … That one played out on the psychological level, you didn’t see much. A lot of what was happening was in the viewer’s mind. For Part Two, I wanted to show everything you couldn’t see in Part One.” 6 Campus Circle 10.5.11 - 10.11.11 And boy, he did. “It’s a surreal thing. I can only watch the films so many times before I put a cap on it. The first one, I think I saw altogether four times. And this one I’ve seen twice now, and I think I’m good. It’s really, you know, gross. I can’t handle it,” says Ashlynn Yennie, the bubbly and sweet-spoken actress who starred in The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and is now playing herself, the starlet, in the sequel. The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) opens with Martin (Laurence R. Harvey), a mentally disturbed security guard who obsessively watches a DVD of the first Human Centipede film at the parking lot office where he works. The audience later learns that Martin plans to follow his fictitious idol’s steps, Dr. Heiter, to make a human centipede of his own. However, he lacks the surgical skill, medical instruments or even the information that you have to wash your hands before cutting open your victims so they don’t die of infection before you successfully stitch them together. What he lacks in common sense, he makes up for in scrappy PR skills, being able to get one of the lead actresses from The Human Centipede, to star in his very own creation. “I was living in New York at the time,” recalls Yennie, of when she auditioned for The Human Centipede (First Sequence). “I just got out of film school. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was doing commercials and all that stuff. Then my manager asked me if I wanted to shoot for a controversial European film. And when you’re 22 you’re like, ‘Yeah, a controversial European film, that sounds awesome!” “So I went to the audition not knowing that it was a horror film, not knowing what it was about really,” Yennie continues. “[When I found out] I was like, ‘This can’t be real.’ I can’t actually describe what was going through in my mind at that time, but it seemed like an awesome idea and Campus Circle > Film > Interviews I remember having to explain it to my mom over and over again. She never got it until she finally saw a poster and a picture from the first one!” From being the last segment of the centipede in the first film, Yennie’s now at the helm of not four, not six, but a stapled row of 10 very unfortunate people. Martin was aiming for 12, but you know, with a pretend doctor in a movie as your only source, crap happens, figuratively and literally. “It’s so much better. I got upgraded so much! You’re in the front, and somebody’s back there. You’re carrying the weight of everybody, but it was fun ... I say [as my character] in the film that I demand it in my contract to get massages. In the first movie Tom and Ilona [Six, producer] were very sweet saying, ‘We have massages for all of you guys.’ During the second one it was like, ‘No massages. You guys have to stick through it.’ So we were like ‘OK fine,’” the actress laughs. The film isn’t for everyone. The concept alone is hard to grasp for many, but in today’s shock-craving culture, it will sure find its way to a receptive audience. Yennie says, “The reaction is very mixed. I think people are taking it too seriously a little bit. What he [Tom Six] was trying to do was again up himself one more notch than he did the first time. “When we were filming, I told Tom, ‘I don’t think people are going to be ready for this. This is scary, really just disturbing.’ And when they showed me the final product I was like, wow.” Having seen the film, this writer can say the same thing. Wow. Just wow. The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) releases in select theaters Oct. 7. (c) Six Entertainment
DVDDISH SPECIAL FEATURES By Mike SeBaSTian The Majors: Fast Five ups the ante for the longrunning franchise with the highest-octane entry yet. Dwayne Johnson joins the cast as a federal agent hot on the trail of Vin Diesel and Paul Walker’s street racing heist team in Rio de Janeiro. The Horror! The Horror! The original cast reunites with director Wes Craven for Scre4m. Now a successful author, Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro only to spark the reappearance of Ghostface. A crop of young stars joins the imperiled, including Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts and Kristen Bell. A woman (Mira Sorvino) travels to a secluded cabin only to become the object of obsession for a spirit there. When her boyfriend shows up things get freaky in The Presence. Also available: supernatural thriller The Caller Made in Japan: A shy middle-schooler with a strange birthmark travels back in time hundreds of years to become humanity’s only hope in a war against demons in the visually stunning anime film Legend of the Millennium Dragon. From the Vault: Available online through the Warner Archives: one of legendary director Akira Kurosawa’s final films, Dreams, is a beautiful series of vignettes based on the director’s actual dreams concerning man and his environment. Martin Scorsese plays Vincent Van Gogh! Paul Mazursky captured the birth of the New Hollywood while paying homage to the European New Wave that spawned it in the comedy Alex in Wonderland, starring Donald Sutherland. Under the Radar: From one of the demented minds behind “The Mighty Boosh,” Richard Ayoade, comes Submarine, a fresh take on the coming of age tale, in which Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) sets out to lose his virginity and reunite his parents (Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins). Also available: Zach Braff in The High Cost of Living, Elvira’s Haunted Hills The Idiotbox: Jason Schwartzman returns as failed novelist turned unlicensed P.I., Jonathan Ames, in Bored to Death: The Complete Second Season. Enlisting his magazine editor mentor (Ted Danson) and comic book artist best friend (Zack Galifianakis), Jonathan sets out to solve the strangest cases in New York. This season is even better than the first. Dr. Paul Weston’s own hang-ups (a recent divorce, the possible onset of Parkinson’s) threaten to overcome his ability to help other people in the HBO psychotherapy drama In Treatment: The Complete Third Season. Each episode is an intense session with one of Paul’s clients, plus his own visits to his new therapist, played by the versatile Amy Ryan. A Chicago cop and a schoolteacher meet at Overeaters Anonymous and fall for each other in the new sitcom Mike & Molly: The Complete First Season. Jason Priestley returns to TV as an unscrupulous car salesman in Call Me Fitz: The Complete First Season. Also available: The Bionic Woman: Season 3, Melissa & Joey: Season One, Part Two Stranger Than Fiction: An inspiring and compelling documentary, Buck follows Buck Brannaman, the inspiration for The Horse Whisperer, a cowboy who overcame an abusive childhood to travel the country transforming horses and people with his wisdom. Go inside the fiercely competitive world of Irish dancing as thousands of fleet-footed hoofers descend on Glasgow for the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships in Jig. Eye of the Future aims to galvanize younger generations to lead the charge in battling climate change by showing real-world solutions from around the globe, from nitrified soil to rooftop gardens. Blu Notes: Two Tim Burton favorites come to Blu-ray, his directorial debut Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure features commentary by Paul Reubens and Burton, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the director’s bold reimagining of the Roald Dahl classic, which is loaded with extras, including a documentary on Dahl. 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