The kindest cuts

If your taste turns to the sort of film whose title is exactly what it says on the tin - you know the kind of thing ... Snakes on a Plane, Man on Wire, Spider-man ...

... then the latest decision by the esteemed British Board of Film Classification will fill you with undiluted pleasure.

After much consideration and one abstention, the BBFC have decided finally to award an '18' to The Human Centipede Part 2 (The Full Sequence) despite having rejected it only last June.

The reasons for not giving the film a classification at all first time out were laid out in a long Rejection explanation on the BBFC's website - an explanation whose content is almost as nauseating as, presumably, the film itself.

Suffice it to say, the film details the attempts of a man to recreate the events of the first film in which a scientist kidnaps victims together mouth to anus. Now fans of the franchise - and indeed, er, free speech anywhere, will be able to see this 'treat' which has now been passed with a mere 32 cuts.