The generally enthusiastic opening night crowd at Fantastic Fest seemed, well, pretty bored with Tom Six's latest homage to the human rectum. And while it sucks to give Tom Six the press he clearly desires, this is easily one of the most disgusting films ever made. It's a dreary slog through one man's frankly obnoxious obsession with our basest and messiest bodily functions. A plotless, ugly, grating mess that exists for pure shock value and nothing else. What I got was an hour of sweaty boredom and then 30 minutes of grungy, filthy, visceral misery. something crazy, gross, and potentially enjoyable. As a relative fan of the first film, I sat down with Part II expecting. Human Centipede II played a few days ago at the wondrous Fantastic Fest in Austin. The Centipede II 'ban' will eventually be repealed, and the controversy will certainly help DVD sales, and lots of horror fans will check it out, and then they'll see: yep, censorship is rotten – but so are some movies. His name was Dave Hyman, and he turned out to be one of those BBFC guys who decide on all the movie ratings! My point is that you can rest safely knowing that your BBFC people are smart, informed, and entirely well-intentioned. I assumed he was just another one of Paul's old-school Frightfest pals, the type who knows everything from Ray Harryhausen to Eli Roth and everything in between, and he was. It's hard to defend artless art.ĭuring one of my rare visits to London, my pal Paul McEvoy introduced me to a friend of his. The problem the board faces with the sequel is a lot more confusing, and here's why: writer/director Tom Six gives the 'censors' no context to chew upon. It got an 18 cert, and the film found its horror audience. It's all about context in the case of the first Human Centipede film, the BBFC plainly admits that it found it 'tasteless and disgusting', but was still a relatively traditional horror movie with a few moments of overt grossness. I will always assert that an adult has the right to purchase any piece of artwork they desire, but in the case of 'The BBFC v Human Centipede II,' I can see where the censors are coming from. Ours has long been living, and rather comfortably, in the back pocket of the Hollywood studios. But at least you can take solace in the fact that your country's board does seem to care about its citizenry. And given that I'm a longtime film critic and lifelong film freak, I find the idea of censorship to be truly detestable.

I'm from Austin, Texas, and I'm not here to cast judgments Lord knows my own country's ratings board is a big, fat mess. On 6 June, the British Board of Film Classification refused to give a certificate to The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), effectively meaning the film cannot be legally sold or exhibited in your fine country.

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