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. Released in 2009, independently produced The Human Centipede tells the story of a crazed scientist, played by German actor Dieter Laser, who kidnaps three tourists and surgically conjoins them in a chain, mouth to anus. In 2011 and 2015, Six made two sequels that each referenced the previous film, to create a “movie centipede”. View image in fullscreen ‘A strong appetite for self-destruction’ … The End of Tom Six. He said that the project was densely interwoven with references to global elite conspiracies and which would have become “even more of a success than The Human Centipede”.