Meanwhile Elm Street’s breaking of the fourth wall in New Nightmare fared decidedly better, discovering an almost perfect balance between scares and nod-nod-wink-wink comedic self-awareness. Tom Six, writer/director of the first Human Centipede: First Sequence, returns with a similarly pitched sequel to 2009’s controversial body shocker – a grim, monochrome love-letter to the lucrative furore the original film created, the ending of which had backed him into something of a narrative corner as far as a sequel was concerned. Martin (bug-eyed newcomer Lawrence R Harvey), a squat and clammy night-shift car park attendant, is hopelessly enveloped within the mythos of the film The Human Centipede. The ill-fated Blair Witch sequel, Book Of Shadows, tried – and, inarguably, failed – the self-referential tack. Established horror franchises ‘going meta’ is nothing new.
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