![]() Nonetheless, something about this film had so horrified the institution that they were prepared to set themselves up for what now looks like an almost inevitable U-turn. ![]() Understandably, the distributors of Centipede 2, Eureka Entertainment, protested, and few were surprised when the BBFC backed down.Ĭuts, it turned out, would resolve the problem after all. ![]() Yet at around the same time, the board that now deemed sexual sadism unacceptable in principle were prepared to countenance Antichrist, with its bloody semen extracted by forced masturbation, A Serbian Film, with its rape of a newborn baby, and I Spit on Your Grave, with its protracted scenes of rape and buggery. "Given that the unacceptable content runs throughout the work," concluded the board, "cuts are not a viable option in this case." So dismaying was this concept that Centipede 2 posed "a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers" it might be in breach of the Obscene Publications Acts. ![]() This implied a "clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure". Nonetheless, the board pointed out, the first film's arthropod was merely the product of a clinical experiment, but the new one grew out of "depraved sexual fantasy". ![]()
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