He is shown thrusting into the naked woman. The film also features graphic sight of a pregnant woman's waters breaking and the woman subsequently giving birth. It also features extensive male and female nudity, verbal references to sexual abuse and paedophilia, strong sex references, strong and very strong language, and discriminatory language. Company was required to make 32 individual cuts to scenes of sexual and sexualised violence, sadistic violence and humiliation, and a child presented in an abusive and violent context.
In this case, cuts included: a man masturbating with sandpaper around his penis; graphic sight of a man's teeth being removed with a hammer; graphic sight of lips being stapled to naked buttocks; graphic sight of forced defecation into and around other people's mouths; a man with barbed wire wrapped around his penis raping a woman; a newborn baby being killed; graphic sight of injury as staples are torn away from individuals' mouth and buttocks.
There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised and degraded for the amusement and sexual arousal of the main character and for the pleasure of the viewer. There is a strong and sustained focus throughout the work on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between non-consensual pain and sexual pleasure.
In making a decision as to whether a video work is suitable for classification, the BBFC applies the criteria set out in its Classification Guidelines. These Guidelines are the result of a regular public consultation process and reflect the balance of media effects research, the requirements of UK law and the attitudes of the UK public. While I doubt that any amount of editing will make Human Centipede 2 feel safe or clean — this is a movie about a madman who attaches his victims ass-to-mouth in a chain — two minutes and 37 seconds is nothing to shrug at.
According to the New York Times via Movies. Of course, it's not as though U. Six offers me tea and a chocolate croissant when I arrive. As I compliment him on his hospitality and sharp suit he responds: "The outside has to look good because there is so much dark on the inside. Tom Six began his career directing Big Brother, the reality TV show, in the Netherlands but he always wanted to break into feature films.
The idea that helped him do it, he says, came as he watched a news report about a paedophile. That's how the Human Centipede concept was born. The first instalment tells the story of a crazed German doctor who specialises in separating conjoined twins. Now in semi-retirement, he turns his attention to a private project - surgically attaching three people together, from mouth to anus to create a living human centipede.
They thought the idea was just too disgusting. They'd say, 'I didn't go to acting school to be degraded in this way. You are a pervert! Detractors have suggested the franchise is the natural conclusion of the "torture porn" horror that gained popularity in the past decade - the films Saw and Hostel being the most popular examples.
But Six says his vision is not "gore for the sake of gore". They are dark comedies. We all know that bans, like superinjunctions, are remarkably ineffective. But then child porn and guns are banned, and people get hold of them too — does that make the ban meaningless? Middle-aged liberal that I am, I am sometimes uneasy about the usual way explicit movies are laughed off by old hands as "exploitation" flicks: they are exploitative, and that sort of makes it all right.
Well, in the final analysis, I have to say that it is very difficult, in fact impossible, for me to avoid returning to the approach I personally have always had with regard to censorship: don't. I would say to Baxter, Weldon and everyone else on the committee: give The Human Centipede 2 an 18 Certificate, and let adults make up their own minds.
Let it vanish into the commercial oblivion that almost certainly awaits. Or, if the appeals committee can't agree on this, then a second thought occurs: why not give it a Restricted or R certificate, which means that the DVD can be shown only in licensed sex shops and not via mail order? Well, in answer to this question, the BBFC rejects the idea.
A R certificate is not appropriate in this case, because it is intended for hard-core porn intended to arouse sexually, and not a horror film, which is how this film is billed.
But what would happen if the appeals committee — formally entrusted with judgment as it is — ruled that the Human Centipede 2, in its loathsome way, was in fact committed to precisely these sexual and pornographic objectives, and that therefore the R certificate was the way to go?
But I'm not sure that it isn't a workable option, or at least no more absurd than anything else. Anyway, what the BBFC currently doing is stoking the flames of curiosity and making a series of Human Centipede films, a Human Centipede franchise, more likely in the years ahead. And that might indeed be an affont to public decency. Human Centipede II: should it be banned? The decision to withhold certification for the horror flick The Human Centipede II in Britain won't stop people from getting hold of it.
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