Remember the films BANNED by the BBFC in the UK that went on to become genre classics "the last house on the left, 1972" and "the texas chainsaw massacre, 1974" and "grotesque, 2009"...
Actually, you won't have heard of that last one. "Grotesque". Not yet. Not enough ANGER has been poured into our souls, not enough SCORN has been poured into our hearts, not enough IRE has been drummed into your psyche, by the propaganda machine we know as the BBC World Service, for us to relish actually watching that last bit of insane filthy sickness BANNED for our dis-viewing dis-pleasure. Not yet, but give it a few years...
In the meantime, the BBFC's gone all puritan again, BANNING Tom Six's follow-up film HUMAN CENTIPEDE II, 2011. They passed the first film uncut with an 18 certificate; fine. But they took it upon themselves to tell ME, an adult, what I can and cannot watch, what I'm able to or unable to stomach. Don't molly-coddle me. Just deliver the so-called HORROR FILMS from the film-makers to the relevant viewing outlets and LET ME MAKE MY OWN MIND UP.
‘The Human Centipede II” was rejected by the BBFC on the basis that it is "sexually violent and potentially obscene". The original film was released, uncut, as an 18 last year. The follow-up has "unacceptable material" throughout which cannot be remedied with cuts, according to the BBFC.
Tom Six says, “Thank you BBFC for putting spoilers of my movie on your website and thank you for banning my film in this exceptional way. Apparently I made an horrific horror-film, but shouldn't a good horror film be horrific? My dear people it is a f****cking MOVIE. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. It is art. Give people their own choice to watch it or not. If people can't handle or like my movies they just don't watch them. If people like my movies they have to be able to see them any time, anywhere also in the UK.”
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