THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE
Rating: 15/18
Content: Contains strong bloody
violence, threat and horror.
Why it got this certificate:
THE HUMAN
CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) is a horror film about an insane German surgeon, he
kidnaps three tourists and surgically attaches them to each other to form what
is called the 'human centipede'. The film was classified '18' for strong bloody
violence, threat and horror. This provides the film's elements of horror and
threat as the victims are chained up, drugged and left terrified by the
surgeon's explanations of what he plans to do to them.
The actual
surgical process is not shown in any substantial detail. Instead, the nature of
the procedure is hinted at by two short scenes. In one, the surgeon removes one
of the women's teeth with pliers, resulting in a lot of blood but with the
actual process of removal hidden by the positioning of the characters' bodies.
In the other, a blade is seen cutting into the flesh of a woman's backside
before a bloody flap of skin is elevated. Both of these bloody scenes, plus the
later shooting of several characters with blood sprays from injuries and the piercing
of a scalpel into a man's legs, breach the BBFC's Guidelines at '15' which
state that 'violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of
pain or injury’.
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