Tom Six 'The End' Doc Premieres, Details 'Onania Club' Snub — SkimNews
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- Tom Six, the Dutch director of the "Human Centipede" trilogy (released 2009, 2011, and 2015), premieres his confessional documentary "The End of Tom Six" this weekend on YouTube
- Six was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 14 years ago and has lived as a recluse in Amsterdam for six years, managing chronic pain with Oxycodone and describing himself as "a fucking living X-ray"
- "The Onania Club" (2019), Six's post-trilogy film starring Chloë Sevigny about women aroused by others' suffering, was rejected by every distributor despite Six's mainstream crossover via memes on "South Park," "SNL," and "Deadpool 2"
- Distributors told Six the "marketplace has changed" and pointed to an "increasingly censorious environment" — Six claims the resulting stress exacerbated his MS
- The black-and-white documentary features Six lying on an antique Chinese opium bed in a paisley silk bathrobe, posing the question: is there still room for transgressive cinema?
Why it matters: Tom Six frames his worsening MS — he calls himself 'a fucking living X-ray' — as tied to watching distributors reject 'The Onania Club' despite his meme-level fame and a Chloë Sevigny credit. By premiering on YouTube, Six sidesteps the gatekeepers he accuses, making the doc itself part of his argument.
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