The previous example was Grotesque, a 2009 Japanese horror film whose premise was likewise deemed dangerously offensive. The BBFC says it has withheld certification for 28 films, including the Centipede sequel, since 2000. The board also said The Human Centipede II may breach the Obscene Publications Act, and "poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers". "There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience," the BBFC said. It took the rare move of refusing to classify the film and explaining that no amount of cuts would allow them to give it a certificate. The BBFC described the central plot of the film as the "sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture and murder of his naked victims". One scene involves him wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the end of the centipede, having become aroused by the sight of his victims being forced to defecate into each others' mouths. The film then focuses on his fantasies and the torture he inflicts. In the sequel, a man becomes erotically obsessed with a DVD copy of the original film – in which the victims are surgically stitched together mouth to anus – and decides to recreate the idea. The BBFC refusal means it cannot be legally supplied anywhere in the UK – even on DVD or download.
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