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Tuesday 7 June 2011

Human Centipede II put on hold

The second in the ridonculous film 'The Human Centipede' has been said no to by the British Boad Of Film Classification. They said no to this sequal on the basis that there was '...sexual violent and potentially obscene..'content. This means that the DVD of this film cannot be legally sold ANYWHERE in the UK.
Sounds like to me people who saw the first film who liked it and have the DVD and want to see this second one and then maybe buy the DVD can't legally...you can imagine there being an underground network of black market sales of this DVD, or people knowing someone who knows someone with people getting secret texts where they have to meet someone in darkened allies to get this DVD...or they just go to somewhere that's not in the UK to get this DVD.

Anyhew, I digress. The first film of this was accepted by the BBFC as they say that "The first film dealt with a mad doctor who sews together three kidnapped people in order to produce the ‘human centipede’of the title. Although the concept of the film was undoubtedly tasteless and disgusting it was a relatively traditional and conventional horror film and the Board concluded that it was not in breach of our Guidelines at ‘18’. This new work."

But, the reason they say they have rejected the Human Centipede II is because...
"The principal focus of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder of his naked victims. Examples of this include a scene early in the film in which he masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis, and a sequence later in the film in which he becomes aroused at the sight of the members of the ‘centipede’ being forced to defecate into one another’s mouths, culminating in sight of the man wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the rear of the ‘centipede’. There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience. There is a strong focus throughout on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure. It is the Board’s conclusion that the explicit presentation of the central character’s obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of its Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers."

So, to me when the BBFC put it like this to my mind it is completly logical why they would reject it. However, the filmmakers (Tom Six) has six weeks to appeal to this decision. What do you guys think?

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