'The Human Centipede II: (Full Sequence)' was finally released in the UK today (November 4th 2011) after running the gamut of the British Board of Film Classification and at one point being refused a certificate. The film - directed by Tom Six, director of the first movie starring Dieter Laser - has been receiving mixed reviews, all of which touch on its extreme gore and violence. Despite the controversy of that first film - which saw a fictional doctor stitch together three humans mouth to anus - it only gained a limited release in the US and took a meagre gross of $181,467 as part of $252,207. However it fared better when reaching Dvd release, taking $2,113,186.
Though the UK's Bbfc allowed that first instalment to be released uncut as an 18, it took severe objection to the follow up, Total Film reporting that it said back in June that it had "a strong focus throughout on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure," the report going on to say, "The explicit presentation of the central character's obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers."
However, earlier this month Slash Month reported that director Six had cut 32 scenes from the film - amounting to over two and a half minute of footage, which has pleased the Bbfc enough to rate it as an 18.