Tom Six Discusses Career, Health Struggles and The Onania Club

Tom Six, director of The Human Centipede, is discussing the career and health struggles surrounding his latest film, The Onania Club, according to an exclusive report by The Hollywood Reporter.

The report centers on a new documentary chronicling Six’s seven-year effort to secure distribution for The Onania Club. It also describes his struggles with multiple sclerosis and his reflections on an uncertain future, including the words, “These are my final words.”

For entertainment audiences, the story connects a filmmaker’s fiercely transgressive body of work with the practical difficulty of finding a distributor for a challenging film. The report presents Six’s account and does not independently establish the medical or personal claims described.