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The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is a 2011 Netherlands/UK horror by Tom Six.
With Laurence R Harvey and Ashlynn Yennie.      

Famously banned in the UK for 2011 DVD but later passed 18 after heavy cuts.

Also temporarily banned in Australia before later being passed R18+ with cuts. An uncut version was again banned in 2026.

In June 2026, Umbrella Entertainment announced an uncensored 4K UHD Collector's Edition of THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE TRILOGY would be released on 22 October.

In July, the uncut version was awarded an R18+ (High impact themes, blood and gore, violence, sexual violence, nudity and sex scenes) as an Accredited Classifier Decision.

The Classification Board are able to revoke and overturn a decision made by a classification tool or accredited classifier if it believed it would have determined a different rating or the consumer advice was misleading, incorrect or grossly inadequate. This is what has now occurred, with the R18+ being replaced by an RC on 21 August. It is the first time a film has been banned in such a way since the March 2024 introduction of Accredited Classifier system.

A cut version was released in the US Unrated by the MPAA. Later it was released in the uncut version which is now cheekily tagged as the Director's Cut, still MPAA Unrated. The film was also banned in New Zealand.

Summary Review: Sick Fantasy

Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.

This is the type of movie you will either like or hate, I doubt there will be much in between. The film is quite shocking, but not the most outrageous of the genre.

Actor Laurence R Harvey is masterful as Martin yet doesn't utter a single word of dialogue.

The increasingly secretive censors at the BBFC have recently removed a facility to let interested users monitor recent decisions. The only database search facility remaining is to search for sepecific titles.

The BBFC responded to a query asking about this vanished recent decisions page and the BBFC responded:

With regard to the website, you are correct that the primary purpose of the site is to assist viewers, and parents in particular, in deciding whether content will be suitable. This is why the functionality has changed.

You can of course still search for classification information via the main search.

Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior) is a 1981 Australia/USA/New Zealand Sci-Fi horror mystery by Michael Laughlin.
With Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher and Dan Shor.

Released uncut on pre-cert VHS and was seized by the police during the Video Nasties Panic but did not make the Video Nasties list. Then released uncut on 1986 VHS. Cut by the BBFC for DVD. Uncut in the US

Powerhouse have lined up a release of Michael Laughlin's Strange Behaviour for March.

It hasn't gone through the BBFC just yet. They cut it for vertical wrist slicing in 1993, 2004 and 2008 after having passed it intact on video in 1986.

The BBFC seem to have had a rethink on that policy since the controversy when they cut Soulmate (2013) for similar reasons, and they passed a similar but much stronger scene in Lords of Chaos in 2019. So should be uncut this time. 

I just mention it because it would be quite notable and worth keeping an eye on. Not many films go from being passed intact to cut to uncut again.