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Movies and TV shows about true crime can be hit or miss, to say the least; sometimes, the families of real killers accuse the project of exploitation, and other times, it's just insensitive. That's what makes former Disney teen idol Hilary Duff's 2019 film "The Haunting of Sharon Tate" so baffling. Not only is it based on the very real murder of Sharon Tate at the hands of Charles Manson and his followers in her Hollywood home in 1969, but it has Duff, as Tate, playing the murdered woman's ghost as she relives the events of the horrific Manson killings.

"The Haunting of Sharon Tate" is, to put it lightly, a bizarre movie, and though it's not Duff's fault that this misguided project is pretty bad, the evidence of its numerous failures as a movie (and retelling of Tate's death) is evident in its Metacritic score. The movie only earned a...

As Terrifier 3 prepares to hit theaters this Friday, it’s already stirring up intense controversy, having received a rare ban in France. This under-18 restriction hasn’t been imposed on a horror film there since Saw 3 in 2006. Known for its extreme violence and gruesome content, the Terrifier franchise, led by Art the Clown, is no stranger to pushing boundaries. Early screenings have even reported fainting and walkouts, sparking the latest conversation about what makes a horror film go too far?

But Terrifier 3 is hardly the first film to face the wrath of censors. Horror, as a genre, has a long history of crossing the line, provoking moral outrage, and—unsurprisingly—being banned in various countries. Let’s take a look at some of the most infamous horror films that got slapped with bans and delve into why certain subgenres, like video nasties and torture porn, seem to...

Its ironic that when a horror movie is truly effective at producing fear, I never want to see it again. While there are some incredible horrors, like Stanley Kubricks The Shining, that I'll happily rewatch several times over, noticing something new with each viewing, other horrors told me everything I needed to know with a singular viewing, and although I enjoyed them the first time around, I have no desire to rewatch. In fact, some were so bone-chillingly horrific that the thought of having to experience them for a second time actually gives me anxiety.

There are lots of great movies that are so brutal I could only watch them once, and this is especially relevant for horror films. It might be that the movies excessive depiction of violence was just too much for me to take, but in other circumstances, it was not the literal imagery that made for difficult viewing,...

The controversial horror film "The Human Centipede" was so disturbing that it was banned in some countries, but the controversy only made it more popular. Renowned film critic Roger Ebert refused to give "The Human Centipede" a star rating, stating that the star rating system was unsuited to the film, which he found depraved and disgusting. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, "The Human Centipede" continues to be divisive, with some praising its direction and performances while others found it revolting and repulsive.

The horror genre is home to many controversial and divisive movies, and one, in particular, led to Roger Ebert refusing to review it. Due to their style, purpose, characters, and the themes addressed in horror movies, these often receive backlash and some even end up being banned in different countries. Other horror movies benefit from the controversy they generate and become quite popular, largely thanks to their quality,...

Whether you’re a passionate John Kramer devotee or a haughty cinephile dismissing Jigsaw’s legacy as so-called “torture porn,” the “Saw” franchise absolutely got to you. Yes, you.

Back in theaters for the 2023 Halloween season, James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s indie shocker-turned-big budget ringer redefined splatter films for the post-9/11 masses and kicked off a resurgence that led to Eli Roth’s “Hostel,” Rob Zombie’s “The Devil’s Rejects,” Tom Six’s “The Human Centipede,” and more. Its notorious gore drew in the eyeballs of not just dedicated genre fans but also countless looky-loos too scared to go beyond the surprisingly dense “Saw” summaries on Wikipedia.

You can bet those same people will be back to devour every morsel of “Saw X,” director Kevin Gruetert’s third at-bat for the series (he also helmed “Saw VI” and “Saw 3D”), starring Og Jigsaw Tobin Bell and set between the...

The Frightfest Guide To Mad Doctor Movies

The Frightfest Guide To Mad Doctor Movies, by Dr. John Llewellyn Probert, Isbn-10 1913051323, Isbn-13 978-1913051327, Rrp £19.99

The Frightfest Guide to Mad Doctor Movies is the seventh in Fab Press' collection. Written by Dr. John Llewellyn Probert, whose professional expertise as a urologist, novelist and film writer further extends to his work with wife (and fellow author) Kate/Thana Niveau as lost film condensed version stage-recreators Teatro Proberto. If that seems quite a lot it's indicative of the feel of the book, which continually finds ways to add a little bit more.

There's a foreword by Frightfest architect Alan Jones, who's penned two of the Frightfest Guides himself. There's also a foreword by The Human Centipede's Tom Six. After the authorial introduction, those two forewords, Probert gives us a whistlestop tour around the somewhat plastic collection of Mad Doctor movies. This sometimes strays into Mad Scientist territory,...

Ah, body horror. That exquisite subgenre that makes us squirm in our seats, cringe in delicious terror, and occasionally lose our lunch. These films are not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. They probe, twist, and mutilate the human form in ways that are both horrifying and oddly fascinating. So, brace yourself and maybe keep a barf bag handy, as we dive into the 20 Most Disturbing Body Horror Films Ever Made.

20th Century Fox 20. The Fly (1986)

The Fly, directed by David Cronenberg, tells the story of scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), who invents teleportation, but of course, it’s not all Nobel Prizes. After an experiment with a fly goes horribly wrong, Brundle begins a grotesque transformation into a human-fly hybrid. What makes this film so disturbing is the gradual, inexorable alteration of Brundle’s body, culminating in a physical and psychological nightmare that’s impossible to forget.

Clockwise from top left: Oldboy (Cj Entertainment), Antichrist (IFC Films), Frontier(s) (EuropaCorp), Audition (Vitagraph Films)Graphic: AVClub

In 1983, horror movie maestro David Cronenberg was asked why movie audiences like scary films. His answer was that “most people would prefer to [confront their fears] in a metaphorical way, in a controlled way. They...

In “Terrifier 2,” a slasher named Art the Clown wears a jester costume with pom-pom buttons and a white bald harlequin head cover, and he’s got licorice-black teeth frozen into a rictus grin (it’s literally a dirty mouth), a hooked nose that looks like something out of an anti-Semitic caricature from the ’30s, a small top hat cocked to the side of his head, and a general attitude of it-only-hurts-you-when-i-laugh blood-soaked dementia. That laugh of Art’s is a real keeper, because it’s silent, like Marcel Marceau’s. He’s so brimming with stylized delight as he chops and saws and skins and dismembers people and throws acid into their faces that he’s like Freddy Krueger channeling Liberace channeling Josef Mengele. When he’s soaked in gore, which is much of the time, the grin shines all the brighter.

Art the Clown, who is played by...

Fans of weird and eerie German movies, rejoice! Your Halloween spooky viewing has arrived, and it's carved out a steady spot in Netflix's Top 10 trending watches. "Old People" is German-Romanian filmmaker Andy Fetscher's horror thriller wherein the old eat the young, bludgeon them, and sometimes vomit on them. It's the sort of concept that M. Night Shyamalan would have a field day with, but Fetscher adds more chaos and a cadre of monsters at the door.

A title card at the opening reads:

In times of yore, an avenging spirit was thought to inhabit old people. A dark power that took possession of the frailest members of the clan and drive them into a seemingly blind rage.

That's right – this is functionally an elderly rage-zombie movie. What a time to be alive.

At its core, the story focuses on generational disconnect by observing lonely elders, excluded from local festivities,...

When Tom Six's horror freakout "The Human Centipede (First Sequence)" was released in 2009, it was met with much disgust and ballyhoo. The poster boasted that the film was "100 medically accurate," something that no movie poster should ever boast. 

The premise was wild and gross and repelled prudes while attracting seekers of the extreme. A mad scientist named Dr. Josef Heiter (Dieter Laser) -- clearly inspired by Josef Mengele -- kidnaps three hapless tourists and announces his dark plan while they are strapped to gurneys in his basement. Dr. Heiter intends to surgically connect the three people via their alimentary canals. He will connect one person's face to the previous person's anus, and remove tendons in their knees, forcing them to crawl. In so doing, he will create a human centipede. There is no stated reason for his experiment. 

Audiences who saw "The Human Centipede" were appropriately grossed out. The...

Some films are so disgusting, repellent, violent, prurient, or tasteless that audiences find themselves unable to easily define them.

Films like Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom," Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist," Gaspar Noë's "Irreversible," Ruggerio Deodato's "Cannibal Holocaust," Takashi Miike's "Ichi the Killer," Tom Six's "The Human Centipede" trilogy, or even John Waters' "Pink Flamingos" are all brazenly confrontational films, each seemingly intended not to draw the audience in, but send the audience out. To keep viewers repelled and disgusted. One might argue that such "extreme" cinema seeks not merely to elicit a visceral response from an audience -- as, say, a mid-2000s torture porn film may do -- but to move them to a level of disgust so intense that they cannot help but push their mind into the realm of politics and philosophy.

To state a broad point: "Extreme" horror,...

Some of us are a bit rusty when it comes to the ol’ dating and don’t have the best relationship status, but not since David Fincher’s Gone Girl has a film made me this happy to be single. In her directorial debut, filmmaker Mimi Cave absolutely admirably goes for it in her dark comedy thriller Fresh, which is available on Hulu over in America and here in the UK via Disney+. Yes Disney has a film like Fresh in their archives, and that is a fact I think is well worth applauding and appreciating.

Fresh follows Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) a young woman who is starting to think she is not cut out for this dating lark, after a few dreadful dates all set up online. Then, as if by magic (or fate), she bumps into the enormously charming Steve (Sebastian Stan), and their chemistry together begins to instantly sparkle.

One of our favorite annual traditions is a best-of-the-year movie list that usually finds a more interesting path than all the various guilds and critics groups. The wonderfully eccentric director John Waters, whose eclectic tastes always includes a mix of the unexpected and underseen, hasn’t let us down this year with his top 10 films of 2021.

Published at Artforum, where one should click over to read his thoughts on each, the list is topped by Leos Carax’s “nutcase masterpiece” Annette, a perfectly fitting madcap musical for the mind of Waters. Other selections include Bruce Labruce’s incestuous drama Saint-Narcisse, Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, and the latest from The Human Centipede director Tom Six, which edged out Pedro Almodóvar’s “exquisite” Parallel Mothers for the 10th spot.

Check out the list below as Waters embarks on his Christmas tour.

1. Annette (Leos Carax)

2. Summer Of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson...

Ashlynn Yennie was born in the small town of Riverton, Wyoming. She studied acting at the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Her first feature film credit was when she was cast as Jenny in the cult horror film The Human Centipede. She subsequently appeared in the first sequel to that notorious film and has kept busy, acting not just in horror films, but showing wide range in a diverse variety of TV and film roles. Her newest film is the thriller Antodote, in which she plays Sharyn, a young woman held captive in an underground medical facility where selected individuals are perpetually mutilated and then healed using a secret Antidote.

Ashlynn Yennie took the time to talk to We Are Movie Geeks about her career, Antidote, and what it was like attending the premiere of The Human Centipede II with her Grandmother.

Interview conducted by Tom Stockman May 5th,...

Curated retrospectives include Cannes winners, genre, family documentaries.

IFC Films has launched The Indie Theater Revival Project and curated 20 retrospective programmes for Us theatres when they emerge from lockdown, offering library titles for free during the first month they open.

The selections comprise approximately 200 films spanning IFC Films’ 20-year history – the company celebrates its anniversary this year – and IFC Films said on Tuesday (21) it will make them available to cinemas starting on May 29.

Theatres will be able to book any number of the retrospective programmes, in part or in total, any time through the first month after they reopen. No...

Curated retrospectives to be made available for participating theatres.

IFC Films announced on Tuesday (21) The Indie Theater Revival Project and has curated 20 retrospective programmes for Us theatres to screen when they reopen in the weeks and months ahead.

The selections comprise approximately 200 films spanning IFC Films’ 20-year history – the company celebrates its anniversary this year – and will make them available to cinemas starting on May 29.

Theatres will be able to book any number of the retrospective programmes, in part or in total, any time through the first month after they reopen. No film rental will be due for any of...

In an effort to help independently-owned movie theaters recover from the coronavirus pandemic, IFC Films announced on Tuesday that it will offer over 200 of its films to those theaters without any rental fees. This will help give those theaters some classic films to screen when they reopen while they wait for new films to be released.

“Independent theaters across the country have been essential partners for us at IFC Films, and we would not be where we are today without their support,” the distributor announced in a statement. “We wanted to take the first step and let theaters know that we are committed to helping them reopen their doors by providing a selection of films to program while the new release landscape gets back to normal.”

Dubbed “The Indie Revival Project,” the program will offer selections from IFC’s catalog in various curated packs, including a “Yes We Cannes!” program...

IFC Films is offering embattled indie theaters hundreds of films from its library to screen when they re-open from their mass Covid-19 related shutdown.

The movies, which include such IFC classics as “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and “Boyhood,” will be made available to cinemas without any rental fees. The retrospective program boasts roughly 200 films. Theaters will not be charged any film rental.

“We are honoring the partnership we’ve had with theaters over the last 20 years and we’re sending them a message of solidarity and gratefulness,” said Lisa Schwartz, co-president of IFC Films. “They’ve been with us since beginning and when they come back, we want to be there with them.”

The indie studio is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary and had been putting together programming to honor the occasion. After coronavirus closed most theaters in March, IFC began to rethink its plans.

“This was a positive way...

Dieter Laser, the star of The Human Centipede, has died. He was 78.

The announcement of his death was posted on his Facebook page on Thursday, revealing the German actor had died in February although the cause of death was not revealed.

“We are very sorry to have to inform you that Dieter Laser passed away on February 29, 2020,” the post read.

Laser became internationally known after he played a deranged and sadistic doctor in The Human Centipede. In the controversial horror film, his character kidnaps three tourists and then stitches them together to recreate a centipede.

He appeared in the third...

Dieter Laser, the German actor best known for his role as the deranged doctor in “The Human Centipede,” has died. He was 78.

A post on his Facebook page stated that the actor passed away on Feb. 29.

“We are very sorry to have to inform you that Dieter Laser passed away on February 29, 2020,” the post read. No cause of death was mentioned.

Also Read: 'Human Centipede' Director Tom Six Takes on Censorship, Critics: 'I Like the People Who Hate It'

Laser had more than 60 films and TV series credited to his name, including Tom Six’s “The Human Centipede,” in which he kidnaps three tourists and surgically joins them together. The 2009 horror film became a cult hit.

On Thursday, Six took to Twitter to share his condolences, writing, “I’m totally shocked Dieter passed away. He was a force of nature, an [sic] unique human being and an iconic actor. I’m...

German actor achieved international prominence for his role as a deranged doctor in the film, which won awards at horror and fantasy festivals

Dieter Laser, star of outrage-horror film The Human Centipede, has died aged 78. The news was announced in a post on his Facebook page, saying that the actor had died on 29 February. No cause of death was given.

Laser achieved international prominence for his role in The Human Centipede, playing the deranged doctor who stitches together three captive tourists mouth-to-anus, to form the grotesque creation of the title. Written and directed by Dutch film-maker Tom Six and released in 2009, it won a number of awards at horror and fantasy film festivals, including best actor for Laser at the Austin Fantastic Fest. Laser also appeared in the third Human Centipede film, released in 2015, as a sadistic prison boss who orders all the inmates to be sewn together.

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Dieter Laser, the German actor who appeared in The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) has reportedly passed away. According to Dread Central, who picked up the news on social media, Laser died on February 29th aged 78. The actor, who also showed up in Lexx and a number of German productions, was perhaps best-known for his role as Dr. Josef Heiter in Tom Six’s controversial 2009 film, where he attempts to create a ‘human centipede’ out of unwilling victims.

Laser was born in Kiel in 1942, and despite doubts due to his fundamentalist Christian upbringing, broke into acting aged sixteen when he asked the doorman at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg how to become a performer. Beginning work as an extra, he developed a career in the theatre, including as co-founder of the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin. Laser later gained attention for his lead role in the 1975 film John Glückstadt,...

Many more casual movie fans might not recognize the name Laurence R. Harvey at first glance. For those who do not stray too far into the horror genre, allow us to introduce you to this actor. He made his name in the industry by acting in the polarizing horror movies The Human Centipede II and III, which were directed by the innovative Dutchman Tom Six.

Related: The 10 Creepiest Cults In Classic Horror Movies

Since appearing in those films, Harvey has gone on to forge a decent career in the horror genre. Although he's acted in several short films, today we're will be focusing on his work in feature-length productions. Check out Laurence R. Harvey's 10 Best Films, according to IMDb below!

For the person in your life that has everything, here comes a new gummy candy based on writer-director Tom Six’s The Human Centipede: First Sequence. True story. And today’s video is going to show you how to make your own! The video comes to us from an aptly-named YouTube channel dubbed Unnecessary Inventions. You got […]

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The last time we saw a trailer for Tom Six’s upcoming horror movie The Onania Club, I was still working for Horror Freak News! Today brings another look at the vile film, said to be the very definition of “Schadenfreude” (the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the […]

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Three years after finishing “The Human Centipede” trilogy, Dutch writer/director Tom Six is officially set to return to theaters with his latest horror shocker “The Onania Club.” While specific plot details have thus far remained a mystery, the newly released first official trailer introduces a woman protagonist aroused by scenes of immense violence or tragedy. Distracted from her marriage, child, and friendships, she discovers an underground group of women with similar predilections. Early promotion for the movie promised “one of the most vile, inhumane movie experiences of all time,” and anyone familiar with “The Human Centipede” trilogy knows that Six can deliver.

Here’s the official synopsis: “Hanna secretly joins a group called The Onania Club. Its members, strong independent L.A. bound women, get aroused by the misery of others. Hanna meets more misery than she could ever hope for and in the process loses everything she holds dear.

Now that Dutch director Tom Six is all done with his name-making Human Centipede trilogy, he looks set to double down on his scandalous reputation with The Onania Club, a film which he’s already said will be “one of the most vile, inhumane movie experiences of all time.” And you know what? We believe him.

Some may call Six an artful provocateur while others think he’s a purveyor of trash, but however you might feel about him, it seems as if he could care less. That’s been made abundantly clear in this new trailer for The Onania Club. Likely to push buttons and leave you feeling disturbed, the footage on display here is definitely a bit uncomfortable to watch. Of course, Six is obviously making some sort of social commentary once more with his latest effort, and from what we can see in this new preview, it...

Roses are red, violets are blue, Elvira and Cavitycolors have a bloody valentine for you. Cavitycolors' new Elvira Valentine's Day shirt will be available today at 5 p.m. Est. Also: Birth of the Silver River: A Disambiguation event at the famous Stanley Hotel and VOD release details for FrightFest documentary Beneath the Dark Heart of Cinema.

Cavitycolors' Elvira Valentine's Day Shirt Details: "Roses are red, now you're dead! This Thursday at 5 P.M. Est, we're unleashing a brand new Valentine's Day design featuring the Queen of Halloween, Elvira!

This stunning new art by Devon Draws will be available on Tees, Long Sleeves, and Ladies slouchy tanks. Be ready to treat a loved one (or yourself) to something extra spooky on the 14th...... or else."

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Someone is going on Santa’s Naughty List for certain! Ugly Christmas sweaters have become as much a staple of the season and eggnog and gift-swaps, but the folks at Shinesty have taken the concept to grotesque extremes. Their Human Santapede design features rows of St. Nicks sewn together ass-to-mouth ala Tom Six’s infamous gross-out The […]

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Twenty years, in terms of horror films, doesn’t sound all that long. Yet it adds up to a generation, and the list below reflects that. It’s a catalog of the cinematic fears and obsessions that define an era. The list is also destined to start a few fights. So feel free to object, and to point out the dozens of terrific films I left out.

20. The Babadook (2014)

It’s scrappy and, at times, a little short on atmosphere, but Jennifer Kent’s sinister maternal psychodrama puts you inside the head of a woman on the verge like no horror film since “Repulsion.” It’s set in Australia, where Amelia (Essie Davis) was widowed in a car crash the night she gave birth to her son (Noah Wiseman), who is now six. (Her husband was driving.) The son is deeply troubled, but not nearly so much as his mother,...

A couple of months ago, the first trailer dropped for The Onania Club, the upcoming film from Human Centipede helmsman Tom Six, and the 40 seconds of footage made it abundantly clear that the divisive director isn’t done making us all feel very uncomfortable quite yet. But while the aforementioned teaser saw a room full of elite women pleasuring themselves to footage of 9/11, these latest stills, which we’re happy to be able to exclusively premiere, show that the film’s titular club finds similar arousal in suffering that’s unfolding right before their eyes.

Seeing how ‘onania’ is an archaic term for masturbation, it only figures that the act would feature so prominently in the movie’s promotion, with one new image featuring several of the film’s wealthy female characters getting off in the presence of a woman who may well be on her deathbed.

Elsewhere in these new batch of pics,...

The new Human Centipede Blu-ray set is here, whether you asked for it or not. The controversial trilogy can now be bought as a limited “Tom Six Edition” Steelbook, boasting more than 7 hours of footage total. You may want nothing to do with this release, but with the pack being sold exclusively from Six’s website for the hefty price of €52.99 (Us$61.64), the director’s banking on there being some pretty dedicated shock junkies in his fanbase.

He took to Twitter earlier this week to announce the arrival of the set, saying:

“Watching the complete 4.5 hrs movie centipede is the ultimate pede experience. Check out the only box in the world that has them connected with different ending!”

The Human Centipede trilogy has an overarching structure that mirrors the perverse premise at its core, with each film existing as a mere work of fiction in the movie that follows. The...

A gimmick-filled weekend away to the house that saw multiple teens get stabbed in the 1996 horror film brings other strange ideas to the surface

If you live in California and don’t have anything to do this Halloween, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has just presented itself. For one night only, horror fans will be able to watch Scream from within the confines of the real life Stu Macher house, which has been rented out for the event.

Related: Tom Six's The Onania Club: is this the year's most loathsome trailer?...

The trailer for Human Centipede director’s new film, in which women masturbate over footage of 9/11, is simply witless provocation

If you’ve read any of these trailer reviews before, you’ll know that they operate to a rigid formula. I watch the trailer, I screengrab the trailer and then I make a series of hackneyed non-jokes about the trailer. This approach works for most films; but not The Onania Club.

The trailer for The Onania Club – Tom Six’s barely anticipated follow-up to the Human Centipede trilogy – was released yesterday. It is 40 seconds long, and it cannot be screengrabbed. This is because, in its entirety, The Onania Club’s trailer just consists of women masturbating to 9/11.

Now that Dutch director Tom Six is finished with his name-making Human Centipede trilogy, it looks like the controversial filmmaker is doubling down on his scandalous reputation with The Onania Club, a project which he promises will be “one of the most vile, inhumane movie experiences of all time.” Whether you regard him as an artful provocateur or a purveyor of trash, it appears that with this new effort, he has little interest in changing your mind either way.

That’s fairly evident with the pic’s first teaser trailer, too, which can be seen up above. Sure to push buttons and stir controversy, the brief promo features a group of elite women watching 9/11 footage and, well…take a look for yourself and you’ll see.

It’s uncomfortable stuff, to be sure, and between its crude title (‘onania’ is an archaic term for masturbation) and what we see here,...

Guessing what The Greasy Strangler director Jim Hosking had in mind for a follow-up was always a bit of a poser. Whether he would slip into A Straight Story style deviation or lounge in that oily (dis)comfort zone he fashioned so well with Tgs, was anybody’s guess. As it turns out, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn seems like a room tone re-hash in terms of kitsch/chic bravura and character types. At times it’s so similar to his bombastic debut, Aewbll could be seen as a waddling appendage. The same kind of gluey, translucent pink opening credits lights up the cinema like a disco brothel bingo hall while Andrew Hung’s synth stabs flower into robot fart fusing grooves.

The story starts in a crusty back street similar to where Big Ron and son repeatedly barked “bullshit artist!” at each other. Aewbll then introduces us to the wonky,...

With Tom Six announcing his latest piece of schlock-bait, The Onania Club, how best to ignore a man whose only remaining raison d’etre is provocation?

Great news for people who like watching three minutes of a film in the middle of the night on SyFy, then feeling like you’ve seen enough of it to get the gist, then switching off and going to bed – Tom Six has got a new movie coming out.

That’s right. You saw The Human Centipede, and were secretly disappointed that it wasn’t as interesting as the premise suggested. You saw The Human Centipede 2, then spent a full month wondering why you bothered. You ignored The Human Centipede 3, because you have a vague recollection of someone once telling you not to feed the trolls. And now it’s time for you to actively run away from The Onania Club.

Now that Dutch filmmaker Tom Six is all done with his name-making Human Centipede trilogy, it looks like the controversial writer-director is doubling down on his scandalous reputation with The Onania Club, a film that Six promises will be “one of the most vile, inhumane movie experiences of all time.” Whether you regard him as an artful provocateur or a purveyor of trash, it appears that with this new effort, he has little interest in changing your mind either way.

Between its crude title (‘onania’ is an archaic term for masturbation), the altered Venus symbol on its poster and its suggestive tagline, it’s a safe bet that the flick will be taking a sex-and gender-based angle with its horrors. Six has even claimed that it features “mostly strong female characters” and will “definitely pass the Bechdel test with flying colors.”

So, rest assured that amidst the depraved spectacle, there...

Three years after finishing “The Human Centipede” trilogy, writer-director Tom Six is officially set to return to theaters with his latest horror shocker “The Onania Club.” The filmmaker is keeping plot specifics about the movie under wraps for now, but he is promising the physiological thriller features “mostly strong female characters” and will “definitely pass the Bechdel test with flying colors.” The cast includes Jessica Morris, Darcy DeMoss, Deborah Twiss, Karen Strassman, and Flo Lawrence.

While plot details are remaining a mystery, “The Onania Club” is set in Hollywood, California. The exclusive release promises the movie “will be one of the most vile, inhumane movie experiences of all time.” Anyone who has seen “The Human Centipede” films know Six can more than deliver on this promise. The movie is produced by Tom Six and Ilona Six through their Six Entertainment Company production banner.

In addition to “The Human Centipede” films,...

While not exactly in the tippy-top-tier of the “torture porn” sub-genre, Tom Six’s 2009 film The Human Centipede made quite a stir upon release. It centered around a sadistic German doctor who abducts three tourists and links them surgically, anus to mouth, to form exactly what the title suggests. It definitely found success, too, if you can call it that, earning itself a decent sized fanbase which asked for a few sequels.

Much in the same way that we can’t help but stare at a gruesome car crash, funding for future Human Centipede films continuously poured in and Six was able to make two follow-ups to the original, both of which were nowhere near as successful as the first one but again, had their supporters. Now, seemingly undeterred by the diminishing box office returns of the last few outings, the director is intent on carrying on with the franchise.

This weekend Toronto horror fans will have plenty of opportunities to celebrate the genre's past as well as its present at Horror-Rama IV, with panels including a look back at Night of the Living Dead with co-writer John A. Russo and remembrances of both George A. Romero and Bob Clark:

Press Release: (Toronto) Horror-Rama is thrilled to welcome actress Ashley C. Williams to her Canadian convention debut!

Ashley found instant cult infamy for her tragic turn in director Tom Six's notorious black-comic horror masterpiece The Human Centipede where she was stitched rear-to-mouth as the middle segment of a mad scientist's insane experiment. In 2015 she received acclaim for her blistering turn in director Matthew A. Brown's psychological horror film Julia and both she and Brown (who will also be attending Horror-Rama 2017) will screen their masterpiece and meet their fans.

Ashley joins previously announced special guests: John Harrison (Creepshow,...

Horror-Rama Toronto, the Only stand-alone horror convention and cult cinema celebration, returns for its 4th year in a larger and wilder space with a gaggle of amazing celebrity guests and cinema icons –including actress Ashley C. Williams in her Canadian convention debut!

Ashley found instant cult infamy for her tragic turn in director Tom Six’s notorious black-comic horror masterpiece The Human Centipede where she was stitched rear-to-mouth as the middle segment of a mad scientist’s insane experiment. In 2015 she received acclaim for her blistering turn in director Matthew A. Brown’s psychological horror film Julia and both she and Brown (who will also be attending Horror-Rama 2017) will screen their masterpiece and meet their fans.

Ashley joins previously announced special guests: John Harrison (Creepshow, Day of the Dead, Tales from the Darkside, Dune); Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case, Brain Damage); Mink Stole (Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Serial Mom); Vernon Wells...

After naming Alfonso Cuarón the best director of the 21st century, Metacritic has gone ahead and averaged out filmmakers’ Metascores to name the worst directors since 2000. As with the first list, filmmakers must have made at least four movies in the last 17 years to be eligible — meaning that Tom Six (“The Human Centipede”) and Dinesh D’Souza (“Hillary’s America”) don’t qualify despite the fact that they’re far from critical darlings.

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Uwe Boll, known for his oft-panned video-game adaptations, comes in at #2; the dubious honor of defeating him goes to Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, whose average Metascore of 14.5 comes from directing spoofs like “Meet the Spartans,” “Date Movie,” and “Epic Movie.”

You might not be familiar with some of the other names to be found here, in part because directing...

I loved when Tom Six shared colored images from his Human Centipede sequel as it gave a unique look at what the film may have been like had it now been black and white. The same can be said for Nicolas Pesce’s must-see The Eyes of My Mother, a hauntingly beautiful and shockingly film that our own Fred Topel raved about, calling […]...

Offering new premieres and exclusives every month, Shudder has a unique library of hard-to-find international and independent films, something for both casual and hardcore fans of horror. With that in mind, here’s the rundown of the new arrivals and UK exclusives and premieres for December…

Exclusives/Premieres:

31 (Dir. Rob Zombie)

UK streaming Premiere. Available from 15th December

Introduced to eager audiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, filmmaker / musician Rob Zombie’s latest blood-soaked film involves a group of carnival workers who come face-to-face with a gang of murderous clowns on Halloween night. A game of life-or-death will determine their fate.

The Corpse Of Anna Fritz (Dir. Hèctor Hernández Vicens)

UK Premiere. Available from 8th December

Creating a stir at SXSW and the BFI London Film Festival, this ghoulish and uncompromising thriller from director Hèctor Hernández Vicens follows a hospital orderly’s attempts to have his wicked way...

There are horror movies that will give you nightmares, and cause you to fear showers and shallow waters for decades. There are some that get deep under your skin – often times because they've literally flayed or burrowed under their characters' skins – and others that will make you see everyday items (a bowl of pea soup, a hockey mask, a videotape) in a horrifying new light. And then there are the ones that push so many social-taboo envelopes, strike so many collective raw nerves and tweak so many communal gag reflexes that they are a cut,...

You’ve gotta give it to movie studios! They’re bound and determined to capitalize on any and every adaptation they can! Deadline reports that Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films has closed a deal to partner with Atari to produce and finance two feature films… Continue Reading →

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Stars: Anna Walton, Naomi Battrick, Sam Hazeldine, Patrick Gibson, Minnie Phipps | Written by Brendan McCarthy | Directed by David Keating

Faith’s world is turned upside down when she finds out her father is dying. When the mysteriously alluring Sissy Young becomes her field hockey coach, Faith finds a compassionate spirit and much-needed mother figure. Little does she know that Sissy is the head of a centuries-old witches’ coven using the fruit of an ancient cherry tree in a secret ritual that restores life. And soon Sissy has enticed Faith into making a fateful bargain that is about to change everything…

Cherry Tree feels very much like a jumble of ideas, as if someone sat down and thought about what they wanted to see in a horror film or what would make “interesting” visuals and then tried to string them together with the flimsiest of plots. And the visuals are definitely...

Notorious Dutch filmmaker Tom Six releases his outrageous first film to DVD. The legendary enfant terrible of Dutch cinema, Tom Six, he of the notorious The Human Centipede trilogy has decided to make his first film available on limited DVD release, available only from Six himself via his official website. And though his sinister, scatological…

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