Tom Six

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Filmography

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) 2009

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) 2011

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Eraserhead (1977)

Directed by David Lynch

influenced The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)

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Six shot The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) in black and white, which at first you assume was a deft stylistic choice (the scenes in Martin’s apartment are strongly reminiscent of David Lynch’s Eraserhead).

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Hostel (2006)

Directed by Eli Roth

influenced The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Themes Plot Visuals

Moreover, underneath its centipede idea, the movie more or less plays out like any old "torture porn" movie, a la Hostel and its ilk.

Combustible Celluloid

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Six has a way of framing a shot and moving his camera that's immediately striking and unnerving, at once refined and slightly off-kilter, but after the film's intense opening scene, when Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) set off for an out-of-the-way party and find themselves lost in the woods and subjected to the vulgar come-ons of a creepy passerby, you fear that the film will be some Hostel redux in which Americans are seen as poor, arrogant lambs led to slaughter by Europeans somehow entitled to their obscenely vengeful behaviors because, well, Americans suck.

Slant Magazine

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Written and directed by Tom Six , The Human Centipede could be described as a much sicker version of Hostel.

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Like Eli Roth’s Hostel, The Human Centipede follows two Americans - fun gals Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) - as they travel across Europe.

PopMatters

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"The Human Centipede," by skillful Dutch director Tom Six, might be compared to Hollywood schlock like "Hostel."

V.A. MUSETTO • New York Post • Apr 30, 2010

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Also elevating the film above horror cliché is the primary setting: Most of the film takes place in an artfully designed and almost antiseptically clean modern ranch-style home, instead of in the grungy tetanus chambers of the "Saw" and "Hostel" movies.

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Wolf (2021)

Directed by Nathalie Biancheri

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Themes

Taboo conceptions of sex, expressed via ascending iterations of medical disorders, became the genre’s modus operandi as the days of video nasties and violent censorship made way for the permissive catharsis of saturation: a contemporaneous viewer of Tom Six’s The Human Centipede, for example, would generally appraise predecessors like Salò or The Evil Dead with academic disinterest or, at most, retrospective curiosity.

Luke Gorham • InReview • Dec 3, 2021

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Tusk (2014)

Directed by Kevin Smith

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Plot

Some have compared the general plot conceit as a variation on 2010's " The Human Centipede (First Sequence) ," but to dismissively describe "Tusk" in this way is to not understand how much brave, gleeful strangeness and striking sense of character and vision have been brought to this deviously lurid, satirically cutting production.

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Dead Ringers (1988)

Directed by David Cronenberg

influenced The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Visuals

But stick with it, Six has crafted his picture that will remind genre fans of a young David Cronenberg, circa Dead Ringers.

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Braindead (1992)

Directed by Peter Jackson

influenced The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Themes

Equally, there have been many gorier and grosser films, including the fabulous French slasher Inside and Peter Jackson’s brilliant zombie comedy Dead Alive.

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Fresh (2022)

Directed by Mimi Cave

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Themes

Director Mimi Cave’s audacious feature debut offers up plenty of unnerving moments, as it segues from an acerbic look at the modern dating scene to a full-on horror which evokes memories of the likes of Tusk , Ridley Scott’s Hannibal or – dare I say it – The Human Centipede .

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Colossal (2017)

Directed by Nacho Vigalondo

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Characters

Frank starts as a cipher, and stays one, but Dr. Kay is a god complex embodied, a woman who does her own defying of expectations, and also a cross between Dieter Laser in The Human Centipede and Alec Baldwin in Malice.

Alison Willmore • BuzzFeed • Sep 14, 2016

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Directed by Jim Sharman

influenced The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Plot

The set-up is perfunctory B-movie cheese, straight out of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and countless others, with two dumb American teenagers, Lindsay and Jenny (Ashley C Williams and Ashlynn Yennie), stumbling into a madman’s house after their car breaks down in the woods at night.

Electric Sheep Magazine • Aug 1, 2010

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The Collection (2012)

Directed by Marcus Dunstan

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Plot

Then comes the slaughter and the film turn into just another "Saw" sequel (minus the flimsy moralizing) with the elements of "Silence of the Lambs" that hung over the first one combined with a genuflection to "The Human Centipede."

Reeling Reviews • Jan 10, 2020

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The Report (2019)

Directed by Scott Z. Burns

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Themes

Mock burials, use of insects, power drills to heads, arms pulled out of sockets: it’s the stuff of snuff movies, real-life versions of shilling shockers such as Hostel and The Human Centipede .

Film Comment • Nov 19, 2019

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Rough Night (2017)

Directed by Lucia Aniello

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

The laughs are scattershot, though I did like the sight gag about The Human Centipede.

Peter Travers • Rolling Stone • Jun 15, 2017

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

Directed by Kirk Jones

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Themes

Their sense of personal space is somewhere along the lines of "The Human Centipede."

John Serba | jserba@mlive.com, John Serba, jserba@mlive.com, www.facebook.com • MLive • Mar 26, 2016

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Yoga Hosers (2016)

Directed by Kevin Smith

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Themes

Arguably, those three accounted for the funniest parts of a movie that barely raised the bar too far above The Human Centipede movies.

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The Greasy Strangler (2016)

Directed by Jim Hosking

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Equal parts The Human Centipede, Napoleon Dynamite and the surreal output of children's network Nickelodeon, The Greasy Strangler's closest bedfellow is probably the comedy of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.

Cine-Vue

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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Directed by Scott Frank

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

Themes

For another, it would give The Human Centipede a run for its money.

David Edelstein • Vulture • Sep 19, 2014

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Upstream Color (2013)

Directed by Shane Carruth

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

But I still cannot top the initial instinctive reaction I had after the first viewing: this is what would happen if Henry Thoreau made The X-Files… or The Human Centipede.

MaryAnn Johanson • Flick Filosopher • Aug 29, 2013

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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

Directed by Randy Moore

influenced by The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

We saw this happen with films like “The Blair Witch Project” and even more notoriously with something like “The Human Centipede.”

7M Pictures • May 1, 2014

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