Director: Tom Six

Tom Six is a dutch director who is famous for his brutal, gory, horror franchise ''Human Centipede". Born in Holland this director is know for making body horror films and creating huge controversy. Tom Six has only directed six movies, The Human Centipede (Trilogy), Gay In Amsterdam, Honeyz and one short video I Love Dries. Although Tom Six has not directed many films the main focus of his career is The Human Centipede films as they've sparked huge controversy.

However before Human Centipede, Tom Six helped come up with the idea of Big Brother with dutch company Endemol. The success this brought, Tom went on to travel around teaching about the concept of twenty-four film making. From this he became interested in making his own film. He became a director. Tom and his sister started a film company and made Gay In Amsterdam, Honeyz and the short video of I Love Dries. But Tom directing didn't get noticed till the creation of  Human centipede.

The first film was The Human Centipede (First Sequence) the film received a 5.2/10 out of 91 leading film review companies on average. Although the film got low ratings its concept of mouth to anus shocked audiences around the world, Tom Six quoted "I get a rash from too much political correctness. I love it when films dare to have political incorrectness." Tom Six made Human Centipede to make shocks and even though the film was a low budgeted almost "B-Movie" Tom Six's ideas of sick horror and personal distaste of happy endings made the film get a sequel.

The Sequel to the first films was called "The Human Centipede (Full Sequence)'', this film was far more brutal and far more unconventional than the first. Tom Six describes the change by saying "I has always intended to create a trilogy. I made the first film to get viewers comfortable with the idea of the Human Centipede.The second film I wanted to hold nothing back",  the second film connotes Tom Six's sickest ideas but on picture. The film was originally banned in the UK for being "tasteless and disgusting. Tom Six made just under three minutes of cuts to make the film acceptable. From this he expressed his views on the hatred he gets from when films have to be cut. However the cuts were made and Tom Six's film was able to be released in the UK. The film connotes extreme gore shown directly at the camera, the gore is so intense that at the premier of the film, complimentary barf bags were issued to audience member and a ambulance was stationed outside. However a female audience member was so physically ill that paramedics had to treat her from watching the film. This perfectly represents Tom Six's ideas of creating a huge shock and implications that don't make the audience scared but make them feel sick.

Incredibly this body horror, that caused so much gore and shock by Tom Six has a third film in the making (As of 18th October 2013), little detail of this film has been made, but the film will feature Hollywood actor Eric Roberts (right). Tom Six's sick films has brought his budget up to be able to afford a well known actor.
Also the film will supposedly feature a five hundred man centipede, showing the gore and shock will stay and could be conventional to the second film or even worse. Tom Six will direct the film and bring his sick director ideas to this too. He will be bring his controversial film idea to this film, however this will be the end of his Human Centipede concept. No further plans of whats next for Tom have been announced.

In Conclusion, I believe Tom Six has traits many horror directors have. The desire for gore and create huge attention can be seen in Tom. However the Human Centipede films are a huge step compared to a conventional horror film. And could be seen as the new horror. Horror usually involves teenagers, murders and gore.  But Tom Six's sick, twisted  Human Centipede has been recognized by thousands and has gone from a low budgeted B-movie to staring a big Hollywood actor and have got Tom well know for his unique dark directing techniques.

Jake Andrews