Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) (2015) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Dieter Laser, Bree Olson, Eric Roberts, Laurence R. Harvey, Robert LaSardo, Tommy Lister Jr. DIRECTOR: Tom Six CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Meadows MUSIC: Misha Segal PRODUCTION: Six Entertainment, Six Entertainment Company, IFC Midnight

Box Office Performance

The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) earned $16,184 in worldwide box office revenue.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

Franchise: The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) is part of the The Human Centipede Collection.

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

Six noted that casting for the third film was much easier than the first, as more people were familiar with the concept and wanted to appear in the film. To this end, Eric Roberts was easier to attract to the film, because according to Six, he was a fan of the original. Both Laser and Harvey had starred in previous entries as the main antagonists, Dr. Josef Heiter and Martin, respectively. In order to promote the film, Six distributed 250 hand-signed prints of the film in March 2015.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Additional Recognition: At the 36th Golden Raspberry Awards, Final Sequence was nominated for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel with Six being nominated for Worst Director.

CRITICAL RECEPTION

The Human Centipede 3 was near-universally panned by critics. On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 20% rating based on 46 reviews with an average rating of 2.2/10. The site's critical consensus states that "Human Centipede fans may find enough extreme body horror in the third installment to satisfy, but filmgoers of every other persuasion are strongly advised to stay far, far away from Final Sequence." Metacritic reports an average score of 5 out of 100, indicating "overwhelming dislike" from 15 critics.

Entertainment Weekly ranked the film as the second worst movie of 2015, specifying, "sleazy sadism served with a wink and a smile, Six’s anus-to-mouth trilogy is a satire without any clue of what it’s satirizing." Additionally, The A.V. Club also ranked the film as the second worst of 2015, declaring, "Writer-director Tom Six lives for disapproval, and he’s finally made a movie that basically no one—not even those amused or unnerved by the past two installments—could possibly enjoy."

In his review for Variety, Dennis Harvey noted, "As with earlier chapters, the packaging is as competent (if not particularly inspired) as the content is remedial. Indeed, perhaps the series' only really good joke has been the inherent absurdism of seeing an ever-rising level of expense, polish, and now "name" actors applied to something so fundamentally dumb." Eddie Goldberger of New York Daily News concluded his review with, "The movie passes time until it can get to the centipeding. Even the big namesake event, when it finally arrives, is ho-hum. Turns out, whether it’s three people stuck together or 500, if you’ve seen one human centipede, you’ve seen them all."

The New York Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis said of the film, "An ugly, claustrophobic celebration of sexual violence that’s anchored by one of the most repellent characters ever to appear on screen: the prison warden Bill Boss.