‘I lied to my family about the plot of the film. When they went to the premiere, they were shocked’
WARNING: contains material some may find offensive
This started out as a joke. I saw a TV news report about how a paedophile had got a really light prison sentence and I said it would be a better punishment to stitch his mouth to the ass of a truck driver. The idea stuck in my head. I asked my ex-girlfriend to get on all fours and I took a picture of her in that position, which I Photoshopped into the first human centipede prototype. The image had all the ingredients for an iconic horror movie: claustrophobia, the inability to speak, eating someone else’s poop and involuntary surgery.
