SYNOPSIS:Eureka! will follow this release one week later with Sion Sono's latest film, typically still without a distributor in the US, Guilty of Romance:
Tom Six's follow up to the cult horror smash hit of 2010 ups the ante with a brute force unparalleled in film today. The iconic Dr. Heiter has inspired a real-life protege, the sickly, disturbed car park attendant - Martin - who takes his gory inspiration from the original film to horrific new extremes!
Martin, a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his nagging mother on a bleak London council estate, where loud neighbours and squalid living conditions threaten to plunge this victim of sexual and psychological abuse over the edge. Working the night shift as an attendant at an underground car park, he indulges his obsession with The Human Centipede (First Sequence) watching the film over and over on a laptop in his office and meticulously examining the scrapbook he has lovingly filled with memorabilia from the film, including the ass-to-mouth surgery instructions made famous by Dr. Heiter, the mad scientist from Martin's favourite movie. Pushed to the brink by his harridan mother and haunted by the teasing voices of his abusive and imprisoned father, Martin sets into motion his plan to emulate Heiter's centipede by creating his own version. In a rented warehouse, he begins to acquire victims, including his loud, violent neighbour, a prostitute and her lecherous client, and several more... including Martin's pièce de résistance, one of the actresses from The Human Centipede (First Sequence). Although lacking the medical skills of his hero, Martin soldiers on with grotesque DIY gusto, along with a healthy supply of duct tape, household tools and staple guns!
What follows is one of the most harrowing and terrifying films ever conceived, featuring a central character that makes Dr. Heiter seem tame in comparison. The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is a triumph in biological horror by one of the new masters of the horror film.
Bounty Films in association with Eureka Entertainment release the DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 21 November 2011
It is worth noting that both films will be presented in alternate versions. The Human Centipede 2 will be in its BBFC mandated 88 min cut, and Guilty of Romance will be in its 112 min Cannes market cut (even though the Amazon page states 144 minutes). Neither film has a solid, English-friendly, "uncut" release pending at the moment. The previously announced uncut version of The Human Centipede 2 from Australia is now facing a classification review hearing on November 28th. Both releases will presumably be Region B locked, though I do not have confirmation of that.SYNOPSIS:
A dramatic account of three women and their lives, seen through the looking glass of sex, words, madness, death, and family, Guilty of Romance -- the new crime noir from the award-winning director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish) -- tells the tale of three women entangled in a mystery...a mystery that is the gate to a hell-bound love like no other!
Set just before the turn of the 21st century, a grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya -- a love hotel district -- a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment in the pouring rain. Whilst the police investigate, the story interweaves with that of Izumi, the wife of a famous romantic novelist whose life seems just a daily repetition without romance. One day, to break away from the loveless monotony, she decides to follow her desires and accepts a job as a naked model faking sex in front of the camera. Soon she meets with a mentor and starts selling her body to strangers, whilst at home she hides behind the facade that she is still the wife she is supposed to be.
Bombarding the audience with graphic images and assaulting the emotions with classical music, Sion Sono has produced a movie that provokes all your senses, blending genres of film noir with drama and mystery, and showcasing the directors trademark style and use of vivid colour to portray emotion and mood, Guilty of Romance is the final and most exhilarating part of Sono's "hate" trilogy.
EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT will be distributing Guilty of Romance in the UK & Eire which is set for release on 30 September 2011 in cinemas nationwide. The DVD and Blu-ray release will follow a month later on the 28 November 2011.
Details on both releases can be found below, as well as pre-order links.