Having ridden a wave of bad taste to success with his Human Centipede trilogy, Dutch director Tom Six has had a lot less joy finding a distributor for his latest movie.
The Onania Club isn’t exactly an easy sell, as it’s about a group of women who only get sexually stimulated by witnessing suffering and tragedy, but it actually reviewed well when Six sent out screeners for a handful of outlets back in 2019. The movie features footage of real-life tragedies such as 9/11 which is probably the more problematic aspect of the black-and-white feature film than the lady joy stuff.
Six claims ‘political correctness’ is behind the film’s struggle to find a distributor and that it has been roundly rejected by every festival he’s submitted it to.
Human Centipede Director Struggling to Connect With Latest Movie
Considering the sheer shock value of his Human Centipede movies, even though the first one is a ”tour de force”, it does seem odd to think this could be any worse, but Six himself admitted that times have changed when interviewed by Vice a couple of years ago. Even the distributor for his previous work echoed that when rejecting the chance to release The Onania Club.
The director sees the film as a pitch-black satire of the Hollywood elite, and that coupled with repeated tirades about censorship and cries of conspiracy, both help and hinder his outlook. It hasn’t stopped people from campaigning to have the film released, but given nothing has changed two years on from that Vice interview, Tom Six may have to find alternative methods.
