Censor bans Centipede sequel

CONTROVERSIAL British-Dutch horror film Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) has been banned.

Despite being passed by Australian censors with an R rating in May, on Monday the Classification Review Board met to review the film - after an application from New South Wales Attorney-General Greg Smith - and made a unanimous decision of RC (Refused Classification). This means the film cannot be sold, hired or advertised in Australia.

The film is the sequel to controversial director Tom Six's 2009 ''body horror'' Human Centipede, in which a crazed surgeon kidnaps tourists and surgically stitches them together into a human chain, mouth-to-anus, essentially creating one human digestive tract.