human centipede The board refer not only to their own classification guidelines, but also to the Obscene Publications Acts of 1959 and 1964. Understandably, they say they seek to avoid letting through material that may be in breach of the law. Famously, the acts prohibit the publication of works that have a tendency to deprave or corrupt a significant proportion of those likely to encounter them. The board say they engage "in regular discussions with the relevant enforcement agencies, including the CPS, the police and the Ministry of Justice" to determine what this might mean in their own field of responsibility. They concluded that The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) might indeed be considered obscene.
It's not the "degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder" which the board tell us that Six's new film offers. Clearly, it couldn't be, given their indulgence of so much of these things elsewhere. It's "the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure" that poses the problem. This link is apparently too dangerous in itself to be dwelt upon, however it's depictedWell, Six himself clearly accepts that films can corrupt, since his new offering turns on that very idea. Nonetheless, if it's to be the subject itself, rather than its depiction, that rules a work out of contention, then the notion that the one thing beyond the pale is a connection between sex and pain seems almost quaint.
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