Human Centipede director Tom Six reveals multiple sclerosis diagnosis in ‘final film’

‘I’m a morbid lump of untouchable howling flesh’ … a scene from The End of Tom Six. Photograph: Courtesy of Tom Six

Tom Six, the film-maker behind schlock horror phenomenon The Human Centipede, has revealed that he has been living as “a full-blown recluse” in a darkened Amsterdam apartment for six years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

In The End of Tom Six, a homemade documentary that the Dutch director said would be his final film, he says that the stress over his failure to find a distributor for the follow-up to the Centipede trilogy significantly exacerbated his condition.