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Empire StatesBanned - Or Merely Delayed? The Real Future For 'Video Nasties'

Posted on Monday October 31, 2011, 15:01 by Anton Bitel in Empire States
Banned - Or Merely Delayed? The Real Future For 'Video Nasties'

Patience, they say, is a virtue.

On 6th June, 2011, the BBFC published its decision to deny a certificate to Tom Six's The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), effectively banning the film for allegedly posing "a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers." Marshalling the terms of the Video Recording Act and of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 and 1964, as well as the Board's own guidelines and a nebulous notion of public acceptability, the judgement concluded that "the unacceptable content runs throughout the work", ensuring that "cuts are not a viable option in this case and the work is therefore refused a classification."...

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