Hey divs! Great news! The romantic comedy, The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, has been given a British Board of Film Classification today! How amazing is that? That means… well… you’ll illegally download it anyway as you’ll want to see all the nasty (funny) bits they hacked out.
Tom Six?s film – which to be perfectly honest, looks hilarious. A horror film set in the North of England with lousy acting? SIGN US UP! – has been given an 18 certificate, which means it can now be legally sold in the UK.
Of course, the BBFC had previously rejected the film, stating: “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.? The BBFC also considered that The Human Centipede 2 may have even been in breach of the Obscene Publications Act or similar legislation.”
Yeah, right.
Naturally, this classification lark has been one big soap opera.
Tom Six and his production company had a protest against the initial decision (nice publicity), which saw the BBFC relenting after making some harsh edits (publicity for those guys too).
The BBFC have made 32 cuts to the film, which tot up to 2.37 minutes of what are presumably the funniest bits. We say funny, we mean So Vile That You Have To Laugh At Just How Much A Film Wants To Gross You Out. We’re assuming the climactic scene where our main character sexually assaults the lady on the end of the human centipede with barbed wire around his member won’t be in the edited version.
Weird huh? You can’t show things like that, but Jack Whitehall is allowed on our televisions at any ol’ time of day.
BBFC Director David Cooke originally said:
“the Board considered whether its concerns could be dealt with through cuts. However, given that the unacceptable content runs throughout the work, cuts are not a viable option in this case and the work is therefore refused a classification”.
But now, it’s gone through and left the door wide open for the Daily Mail to kick off a huge campaign against it, thereby ensuring that absolutely anyone with any sense ends up watching it.
We look forward to Human Centipede 3, starring John Waters and Jennifer Aniston.
[Source: BBFC]
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