Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) Banned in Britain

Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) Deemed 'Obscene' in the UK

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has banned Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), the sequel to the deviant cult hit Human Centipede, which was freaking out horror fans before anyone even saw it.

Human Centipede II wasn't banned for any one specific scene, but for its overall concept: no edits will satisfy the BBFC censors. They just don't think that delicate British sensibilities can handle the Human Centipede.

What, exactly, makes Human Centipede II so much worse than the original? Well, it's sex. Human Centipede II is about a guy who gets off on the idea of creating a Human Centipede, and not just in a satisfying-his-medical-curiosity kind of way. We're talking about...

• "graphic images of sexual violence, forced defecation, and mutilation"
• "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"
• a scene in which the protagonist "masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis"
• oh, and some barbed-wire rape.

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Tom Six Swings Back

Tom Six, director of both Human Centipede films, denounced the BBFC's decision as "quaint" and silly, saying that banning a film because of a link between sex and sadism is to suggest that sadism, by itself, is somehow harmless. In an email to Empire Magazine, Tom Six's message to the BBFC was much more to the point:

"Thank you BBFC for putting spoilers of my movie on your website and thank you for banning my film in this exceptional way. Apparently I made an horrific horror-film, but shouldn't a good horror film be horrific? My dear people it is a f****cking MOVIE. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. It is art. Give people their own choice to watch it or not. If people can't handle or like my movies they just don't watch them. If people like my movies they have to be able to see it any time, anywhere also in the UK.”

While roughly a dozen films have been banned throughout UK history, only four are banned at present:

• Visions of Ecstasy
• Mikey
• Grotesque
• Human Centipede II

Visions of Ecstasy was banned under a "blasphemy" law which has since been repealed, so that film may yet reach British audiences. Mikey was banned due to its depiction of a child killer in the wake of the Jamie Bulger case, and the BBFC was afraid that the film would somehow turn kids into killers.