It might be tough to fathom for some, but "The Human Centipede" isn't the most disgusting movie Tom Six has ever made. "I Love Dries" is much more difficult to keep looking at, and I don't even fully understand why. Logically you'd expect a crazy scientist that attaches people's mouths to other people's anuses to be more disgusting than fat people eating eggs, but I guess it's the distance from reality that makes the difference here. We can be fairly certain there isn't anyone like Dr. Heiter in this world, but trailer trash eating eggs with ridiculous amounts of mayonnaise (in extreme close-up)? Hell, that could be happening right now. "I Love Dries" is a movie that dares you to watch it, it's a hazing for B-movie veterans who think they can stomach anything. I closed my eyes so many times during this movie that I'm barely qualified to review it. But nausea is better than boredom I guess, and this is pretty much the only thing Six has to keep this movie interesting. The insane plot (an impotent guy kidnaps a famous singer to impregnate his hideous wife) is out of breath way before halfway, so why not go for broke and have the entire movie be about obese people talking about diarrhea and infections?
The bizarre thing about this movie though is that it's a vehicle for a fairly popular Dutch singer that tried to get into acting. Most of this singer's fans are fairly old, so is this just a sick joke Tom Six is playing? Was his whole plan to get elderly asses in seats, just to drive them away within ten minutes? If so, I got to say that's pretty hilarious. Perhaps I'm just giving him too much credit though, maybe generic gross-out is all he could think of while writing a comedy (I think this was meant as a comedy, it's hard to tell).
The true piece de resistance of this movie has got to be the spectacular chase scene in the middle though. The titular character manages to get away from his captors at one point, he's already quite far away when they notice. Dries seems fairly athletic for a man in his 40s, while his capturers are chain-smokers that weigh at least 300 lbs. After a long, epic chase involving jumping across creeks, climbing over fences (that they can easily walk around, mind you) and running half a mile through a cornfield...he's caught! HOW? Because otherwise the movie would be over is the only explanation I can come up with. Seeing an able-bodied man pretending he can't jump a creek that he could literally step over is a highly underestimated form of entertainment. That scene alone might be worth the price of the DVD, it's not like it's expensive.
