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This is a link post Human Centipede 2 banned in UK
Scroll down for the BBFC synopsis of the plot. Yuck!
 (I helped save b3ta! gingerbenji wrote a book http://goo.gl/8UiGjd, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:17, Reply)
This is a normal post oh nice
edit: although it does seem odd that they denied this, but allowed a certain (artless) film featuring "newborn porn" and a man brutally sodomising his own young child.
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:34, Reply)
This is a normal post wow
you must have some film collection
 (I helped save b3ta! Avast is still alive!!!!, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Agree
A Serbian Film was proper fucked-up. This Centipede sequel reads a bit *meh* in comparison. However in my opinion the popular Hostel movies are even more morally-bankrupt than the two put together. Probably why I'm mostly-watching Spongebob theses days.
 (Leemondus, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 2:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Those aquatic, animated sodomites?
You disgust me.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:07, Reply)
This is a normal post It takes a lot of effort to get banned these days
well done that man.

Still haven't seen the first film, the trailer alone near made me sick
 (I helped save b3ta! VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:41, Reply)
This is a normal post ^this
And i'm lost for words on the description for the second one. I also feel slightly disturbed anyone could actually sit in a cinema and watch it, let alone make it
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Remember reading a bit of an interview with a BBFC reviewer once
99% of what they review is pure trash for straight-to-DVD, and a lot of it is horrific garbage. Only rarely do they actually get to review a nice art film or a blockbuster. Because they see graphic uncut violence and depravity day in day out they have to have regular counselling sessions.

Nice. Maybe a career in movies isn't for me.
 (Stephen Sondheim ..-. ..- -.- . -.- -.-- . .- ...., Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Hahaha!
Nicely put; if they have regular counselling sessions then job done. Gore lust like this is simply a bit lost on me personally
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:16, Reply)
This is a normal post But they know they are watching special effects.
If I see someone punched in the street, I feel sick - I mean it really does my head in, and it'll stay with me. But if I see someone graphically murdered in a film, it doesn't bother me at all, apart from maybe a wince as it happens.
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:17, Reply)
This is a normal post I think it's the depravity of the idea
rather than the realism of the violence which has the most horrific lasting effect.

I was going to put his here as an example but the more I read about this the more it actually sounds like quite a good film:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist_(film)#Plot
 (Stephen Sondheim ..-. ..- -.- . -.- -.-- . .- ...., Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Antichrist is a genius piece of cinema.
It looks beautiful and makes you think quite deeply about some pretty heavy issues. But yeah, there are some unsettling images.

edit: also, depraved ideas are nothing new, and have had a hugely important role to play in popular fiction, theatre, films and art throughout history. With dark, disturbing themes often comes truth and insight. Your pals at the BBFC should probably stay away from Marquis De Sade writings, Bosche paintings, any Grand-Guignol theatre, modern writers like Palahniuk, and even old poets like Poe. Much depravity to be had. I love it.
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 1:23, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh, bullshit.
Its easy to become desensitised to special-effects gore. It's also easy to differentiate between real violence and SFX. It takes a serious amount of budget and skill to make on-screen ultra-violence seem even remotely realistic. If an onscreen special-effect causes you to need counselling in this day and age, then you're a fucking infant.
 (The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:49, Reply)
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 (Stephen Sondheim ..-. ..- -.- . -.- -.-- . .- ...., Tue 7 Jun 2011, 1:06, Reply)
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Remember, these are the same people who gave the first Spider-Man movie a 12 rating, meaning that kids couldn't watch a movie that was clearly aimed at kids. I was working as a cinema usher at the time; my job became "bouncer" as a result of that absurd ruling. The 12 rating was given because of the big fight at the end, in which Spidey gets battered a bit and some blood is shown. Oh, noes! Who will think of the childrens!

This would have been at least faintly supportable, had there not been a Star Wars movie showing at the same time in which people got their fucking arms cut off, and died through stab-wounds and being FUCKING CUT IN HALF . . . and yet the Phantom Menace was given a PG rating. The so-called "rules" were insupportable bullshit.

I personally complained to the BBFC, because I was fed up with having to physically defend my female, teenaged co-workers from actual violence by parents who thought that it was their decision to smuggle their toddlers into the film, laws be damned, and would turn nasty - i.e., physically violent - whenever we pointed out that precious little Alfie (they're always called Alfie) was barely twelve inches tall, let alone twelve years old.

People have a bizarre notion that cinemas should bend to their will, and that they are completely in charge once they've bought their tickets, regardless of the law.
 (The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 1:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Did you think about turning a blind eye?
If you don't agree with the rating system, then don't blindly uphold it's rulings
 (Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 3:01, Reply)
This is a normal post To be fair, it's not just about gore and violence
And watching a film about people being forced to shit into each others mouths wouldn't be a pleasant experience, regardless of how easily you can 'differentiate between real violence and SFX.' If you can't grasp that, then you're worse than a fucking infant (not really, I just felt it appropriate to respond in kind)
 (Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 2:59, Reply)
This is a normal post As a medic, this movie really pissed me off
"100% medically accurate!".

Yes. It is possible to take a stitch and sew someone's mouth to someone else's arsehole.

Plus: Where was his evil sidekick Anaesthetist? And his evil sidekick recovery room nurse?

Grrr.
 (WildType is remixing your mum, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:03, Reply)
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What pissed me off about that film the most was that they apparently hired Junji Ito as a consultant. Junji Ito has produced some of the most horrifying, and original, ideas of this century or the last. A second-rate movie like this just sullies his name.

Seriously, look up his name and read his manga (I'm not a fan of manga myself, but for crying out loud, read his stuff and you won't sleep for a week).
 (The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:53, Reply)
This is a normal post i just remembered i'm not 15 and don't want to watch stuff like this
so i'm not going to yay!
 (chocolatelemming, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:43, Reply)
This is a normal post ewwwwwwww
I dare say people will be streaming it from elswhere
 (I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Facist censors! What ever happened to free speech??!!
...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’.

OK. Fair one. Bleeeuuurrgh.
 (I helped save b3ta! Louse POKE 35899,0, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:50, Reply)
This is a normal post whats with the bad ass cover illustration in red?
this is NOT the original cover and i cant find this one anywhere on google picture search. it's damn stylish and bad ass. i want it in big. also im still shocking cockwork orange was banned in the uk for ages.
 (MarkP0rter is an annoying faggot, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:55, Reply)
This is a normal post A Clockwork Orange wasn't banned.
It was withdrawn at Kubrick's request.
 (Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh
so we're back to the extremes of the '80s 'snuff video' era again then.

Well can't say as I didn't see it coming, tho I am surprised it came via this channel, I was expecting something from teh intertubes from some country with highly differing censorship rules, possibly in the form of a game, but there you go...
 (I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh good lord
it's just a film. And a shit one at that. Probably.
 (I helped save b3ta! Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:25, Reply)
This is a normal post mental.
Also, does anyone else have real problems reading white text on black on a computer screen? I find it almost unreadable, and burns into my eyes for minutes afterwards.
 (I helped save b3ta! Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, me too...
Black text on a white background is fine though.
 (I helped save b3ta! mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 1:18, Reply)
This is a normal post The directors are the real winners here.
To shamelessly rip someone else's comment:

The Guardian article wrote,"The BBFC's decision to ban Tom Six's shock-horror film lays bare a phobia about violence, but only when it's sexual."

Reading the interview with Six for the original film, I think this was exactly the phobia he was aiming at. That for most people, true horror lay in the threat of "being interfered with". In some ways, the catharsis in most horror films is when the victim dies - it would be more horrible, and horrific, to continue living after mutilation than to die, and in context, death becomes the happy ending. That ending doesn't really happen here, and is amplified by the mundane fashion in which the victims become victims.

And if the film was truly meant as a piece of art, it's banning by the BBFC on these grounds, without viewing, and from all possible forms of distribution, is the finishing touch. The two films offer an analysis of what true horror is: the fantasy of something ghastly happening to you in the first, and the post-modernist nightmare of what the consequence of watching such a film could be. Then, like the final part of the triptych, is the banning of this second film by the BBFC.

It achieves brilliance as art by being banned. The happy ending is the confirmation that it's not real because the horror can be stopped, not by a hero with a gun in side the film, but by a judicial board outside of it. If the horror rests on the concept of ultimate victim-hood, the final message and ultimate rescue is that the horror can be destroyed by an act of personal control and will (the deducted judgement of a voting panel set up within a democratic society).
 (I helped save b3ta! clockworkrat has nice pants, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 18:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Also, Srpski was brilliant
Basically as a metaphor for how the population of Yugoslavia was turned against each other by outsiders with visions of grandeur, and no-one wants to really see the vicious horror of the entire situation.
 (I helped save b3ta! clockworkrat has nice pants, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 18:39, Reply)