{"id":27644,"date":"2011-10-07T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27644"},"modified":"2011-10-07T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:52:39","slug":"uk-banned-horror-film-gets-18-rating-after-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27644","title":{"rendered":"UK: Banned horror film gets 18 rating after cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An initially\u00a0<a title=\"BBC - Banned horror film gets 18 rating after cuts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-15203870\" target=\"_blank\">banned horror film<\/a> has been given an &#8220;18&#8221; rating, after a number of cuts.\u00a0<a title=\"IMDB - The Human Centipede 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1530509\/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Centipede 2<\/a> was originally <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Was the decision to ban Human Centipede correct in law?\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/06\/07\/was-the-decision-to-ban-human-centipede-2-correct-in-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">banned<\/a>\u00a0in the UK for\u00a0posing a &#8220;real risk of harm,&#8221; in June, but after 32 cuts, the\u00a0British Board of Film Classification <a title=\"British Board of Film Classification\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbfc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">(BBFC)<\/a>\u00a0 granted it certification ahead of its DVD release. BBFC president Sir Quentin Thomas said that the sequel, in which a disturbed loner\u00a0conducts bizarre human experiments, would still be difficult for viewers to watch, but said that the cuts &#8220;address all of the concerns raised when the board <a title=\"Total Film - Human Centipede ii banned by BBFC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totalfilm.com\/news\/human-centipede-ii-banned-by-bbfc\" target=\"_blank\">refused a classification<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initially\u00a0banned horror film has been given an &#8220;18&#8221; rating, after a number of cuts.\u00a0Human Centipede 2 was originally banned\u00a0in the UK for\u00a0posing a &#8220;real risk of harm,&#8221; in June, but after 32 cuts, the\u00a0British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)\u00a0 granted it certification ahead of its DVD release. BBFC president Sir Quentin Thomas said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[969,103,968,3471,7350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27644"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27651,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27644\/revisions\/27651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}