The censorship included a few cuts during the rape scene (which included barbwire being wrapped around a penis) towards the end of the movie. The 30 cuts resulted in about 2.5 minutes of missing footage.Īfter the news of the heavily cut UK version, it was announced that the US version would also be censored. Since November 21st, 2011 this version can be purchased on both DVD and Blu-ray. However, the label refuted the decision and in October there were conditionally pleasant news that the BBFC rated a censored version of the movie with the highest possible (BBFC-18) rating. In June 2011, the BBFC rejected to rate the uncensored version of the movie, thus making it impossible to release it in the UK. In the following segment, we're trying to show you - as far as possible chronologically - the individual releases of the movie. The film is full of blood and torture which is not really mitigated by converting to black and white.

Teeth are getting smashed out with a hammer, the sewing gets done with a stapler - thus, the sequel shows everything one might have imagined seeing after hearing of the first movie. Since he doesn't have the same medical skills to pull the act off, this movie - opposite to its slogan '100% medically inaccurate' - is pretty chaotic. In fact, The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence goes into a completely different direction in terms of style: it takes place on a meta level, where the first part exists as a movie and an insane fan of the movie - a rather chubby man named Martin - wants to re-enact the film's plot. It's a comparatively intelligent piece of distusting cinema which was able to dodge all the criticism of being 'torture porn'.ĭuring the production of the first movie, Six already announced that he was working on a sequel which was going to make the first part look like a kid's movie. Heiter acts so serious and that the movie is not all that graphic - the shock value rather comes from your inner cinema as well as the psychotic acting of Dieter Laser. What was actually surprising was the fact that Dr. The whole thing was advertised with the slogan '100% medically accurate' which was (allegedly) confirmed by a surgeon who was present while the movie was shot.

The plot revolves around a crazy German scientist who wants to build a human centipede by seaming several persons together mouth to derriere. Apparently, the movie was based on a humorously vicious statement that every child abuser should be punished in this way. In 2009, director Tom Six released The Human Centipede: First Sequence which was an appeal for genre fans just because of its concept. The difference in time refers to NTSC-speed! Comparison between the shortened US Video-on-demand version and the uncut Video-on-demand verson from

Human centipede 2 uncut scenes