Tom Six is a Dutch filmmaker, writer, and actor. He is best known for his trilogy of body horror films; The Human Centipede , The Human Centipede 2 , and The Human Centipede 3 . Six was an original director of Dutch reality TV series Big Brother, which has since become an international franchise.
Six in 2013
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch independent body horror film written, directed and co-produced by Tom Six. The film concerns a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and conjoins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming the eponymous "human centipede". It stars Dieter Laser as Josef Heiter, the creator of the centipede; and Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura as Heiter's victims.
Theatrical release poster
Stars Ashlynn Yennie, Ashley C. Williams, and Akihiro Kitamura at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, 1 October 2010
Heiter attempts to "train" his completed human centipede. The use of bandages in The Human Centipede allowed the filmmakers to imply a more graphic and disturbing idea than is actually shown on screen.
Each film or "sequence" in the Human Centipede franchise acts as both a standalone project and as a segment in a larger 4.5-hour film, with the trilogy serving as a 'Movie Centipede'.
