HUMAN CENTIPEDE II BANNED BY BBFC!

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STOP PRESS! HUMAN CENTIPEDE II BANNED BY BBFC!

June 8th 2011 23:56

Dutch director Tom Six has achieved suitable notoriety with his promised sequel to The Human Centipede (2010); the British Board of Film Classification has banned The Human Centipede II (2011) outright. Unlike A Serbian Film (2010) which received an “18” certificate, but was cut, Six’s equally transgressive nightmare, but entirely phantasy-based movie has been refused a certificate on the grounds that it can be viewed as “obscene”.

Tom Six has been quick to make a statement in response to this controversial decision (the first ban by the BBFC in two years); “Films fans should be given the choice as to whether they wish to watch it … 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? It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. It is art. 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.”

Hear, hear, Mr. Six! I champion your opinion and attitude! Being amongst an apparent minority of people who actually enjoyed The Human Centipede (2010), I am looking forward most perversely and will be waiting with baited breath to see the anticipated sequel. I’m all for transgressive cinema that pushes boundaries, as long as the movie is intelligently made with strong production values, and decent performances. There are the odd exceptions in this sub-genre, of course.

Director Tom Six muses over the banning of his new movie

The first Human Centipede movie had the sub-title of First Sequence, and the tagline “100% medically accurate.” The sequel is sub-titled Full Sequence (and involving not three, but twelve victims!) and sports the tagline “100% Medically INaccurate.” Six has already announced that a third movie, The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence), will be released in 2013. 100% medically wrong, perhaps?

The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) deals with a man who becomes "sexually-obsessed" with a DVD recording of the original film and wants to put the idea into practice. It was shot in London with an all-English cast. Whereas the first movie focused on the plight of the three victims and their attempts to escape the mad surgeon’s home, the sequel apparently looks at the sexual fantasies of the torturer and the humiliation and mutilation he inflicts.

According to the article I read today, The BBFC concluded that the thrust of the film was 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" ... "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."

Here’s the rather leading teaser (I very much doubt it’s Tom Six’s voice though):

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