My Crepitus (I Never Left the White Room)

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My Crepitus (I Never Left the White Room)

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Saturn's Core Audio & Video is a New Jersey based home video label devoted to releasing underground oddities and shot on video cinema on VHS, and now, blu-ray discs! In partnership with OCN Distribution, Saturn's Core will exhume forgotten or under-seen genre cinema from the 80s and 90s, with an emphasis on SOV horror features. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

Travel through the depths of a deranged mind and experience first hand the violent hallucinations of an incarcerated psychiatric patient. Trapped within the confines of his white cell, Jeffrey Prior (Michael Todd Schneider) struggles with his deteriorating grasp on reality while his psychiatrist, Dr. Nathaniel Beck (Eric James), tries to unravel the secrets behind his daughter’s brutal rape and murder.

The SOV directorial debut from the notoriously transgressive, Pittsburgh based writer / director Michael Todd Schneider aka magGot (August Underground’s Mordum, The Profane Exhibit, …and Then I Helped), My Crepitus is a hypnotic and surreal, lo-fi analog fever dream that seemlessly collides at the intersection of extreme underground gore and experimental video art. Like a cursed transmission from an abhorrent alien universe, My Crepitus is a gore-drenched amalgamation of Inland Empire, Begotten, and Alien Beasts set to an abrasive and disorienting cacophony of sound which Rue Morgue magazine described as “akin to smashing your teeth into the coffee table for ninety minutes”. Saturn’s Core is proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of magGot’s grimy and hallucinatory masterpiece with this ultimate, director supervised Blu-Ray set which presents My Crepitus in multiple cuts, it’s prequel short A Tribute to Sanity, and over 14 hours of special features (on 2 discs) including two feature length documentaries plus countless featurettes, commentaries, and short films which serve as a comprehensive chronicle of both the birth and consequent burgeoning of Schneider's magGot Films imprint.

directed by: Michael Todd Schneider
starring: Michael Todd Schneider, Eric James, Tom Colbert, Amy Beth Deford, Brianne Mealy
2000 / 104 min / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 2.0

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Region Free Blu-ray
Original 2000 cut (89 min.) with new optional director’s commentary
2025 Director’s Final Cut version (104 min.) with new optional director’s commentary moderated by Art Ettinger (Ultra Violent) and Max Almeida
“30 Years Living with My Crepitus” - a new interview with writer / director Michael Todd Schneider
“Within Crepitus Hands” - a new career retrospective chat with writer / director Michael Todd Schneider
“Beneath Crepitus” - archival outtakes and bloopers
“An American magGot in Paris” - featurette from the 25th anniversary screening at the Sadique-Master Film Festival in Paris, France
Uncut.TV interview with Florian Schütz
A TRIBUTE TO SANITY - 2002 prequel short with optional new and archival director’s commentaries
“Confessions of Sanity” - Archival 2002 director’s interview discussing A Tribute to Sanity
“The Final Chapter of Sanity” - archival A Tribute to Sanity making of featurette
“Last magGot Standing (Birthed)” (119 min.) & “Last magGot Standing (Hatched)” (112 min.) - two feature length documentaries outlining the history of magGot Films
“My First Crepitus” - archival interview with collaborators Nathan T. King & Dan MacPherson
“My First Memory of magGot” - an archival interview with actor / collaborator Tom Colbert
“Pulling Out with Drew, Beck, and magGot” - an archival interview with actors / collaborators Sean Beck & Drew Hummel
“Assaulting Ears” - an interview with composer M. Kadath
“Conversations Outside the White Room” - director Michael Todd Schneider in conversation with filmmaker Nathan Hine
Michael Todd Schneider short films:
- Together (2024)
- The Neighbor Guy (1999)
- The Gimp (1998)
- He’ll See You Now (1998)
- On Friday Night (1998)
Bloody Fun Pictures! - early SOV splatter films directed by Tom Colbert and Michael Todd Schneider:
- Sorry (1996)
- The Kranny (1998)
“Bloodmask” - Manticore music video
Reversible sleeve
English SDH subtitles

Overall rating: 4.3968253 / 5 from 63 reviews.

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Review highlights

"The film itself is an edgy 90s spin on the Begotten “formula”, therefore exactly what I was hoping for." — Cian H.
"My Crepitus is another cool SOV movie that I never knew existed." — Mark P.
"It is a gory artsy movie." — Mark P.

Reviews

September Underground

"SOV movie that aggressively blurs the lines between extreme body horror and surrealist video art, generating an abrasive, dreamlike nightmare."

— Kevin G. (5/5)

His Crepitus

"This is cute but I'm not sure it all comes together in the end"

— Avery E. (3/5)

Why all this moody brooding?

"My Crepitus feels more like a surreal art experiment than a conventional film, drifting between imagery and mood rather than story. It’s intentionally opaque, asking the viewer to sit with discomfort, texture, and strange visual rhythms. You may not fully “get” it, but it leaves a lingering, unsettling impression that’s hard to shake."

— Shawn M. (3/5)

Top recommendation hesh avant garde

"Top recommendation hesh avant garde masterpiece."

— Miles M. (5/5)

A Cinematic Acid Trip

"I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would! Super trippy, weird and gory. I recommend watching the new director’s cut, the editing, sounds and visuals are more enjoyable. Highly recommended!"

— Jeffrey L. (5/5)

My Crepitus

"My Crepitus is an extremely experimental movie, with content and pacing that is constantly challenging. It’s not a movie for everyone. I watched the extended version which is substantially longer but haven’t delved into the shorter version just yet. The sound design, like a drone or ambient project, is one of the best parts for me. The special features included with the film are extensive. A few of the features are extremely minimal hourlong interviews with the creator or creator and his wife that may be more for a serious fan of the film as they discuss the production and long history in length. I also enjoyed the new premiere in Paris, celebrating 25 years of My Crepitus. Overall, this is a commendable labor of love that highlights how special DIY filmmaking can be. I don’t see myself revisiting it frequently but projects like this, as tapped and deranged as they may be, are some of my favorite things about filmmaking. Also, props to Saturn’s Core for putting a comprehensive release of this together."

— Steven C. (3/5)

Kaleidoscopic SOV Gem 💎

"This is a top-tier very creative and wild SOV, and certainly ranked among my all-time-favorite Saturn's Core releases. Extras a plenty, and awesome slipcover art."

— Fin L. (5/5)

MY CREPITUS

"I can't say I'll be popping this in every holiday season, but it's definitely doing its own thing loud & proud"

— Richard M. (3/5)

Gnarly edge-lord SOV

"My Crepitus is shlock with delusions of grandeur. Not the only time I’ve seen that, but it might be important to know that going in. Also, the lead actor has facial hair that exists no where else on Earth outside of System of a Down. This is an issue. Still, there’s a lot to like here. The movie is absolutely loaded, start to finish, with the sort of rad trash that exploitation movies need to overcome their meager production value. You’ll see lots of gore, some neat ghoul/demon type creatures, and plenty of sex and violence- in such abundance that you can easily overlook the movie’s tendency to take itself way too seriously. The problems stem more from the presentation. My Crepitus wants us to experience the story much like our central character might- and since his mental health is absolutely shot, that means a wildly fragmented and non-linear edit. That’s worked in movies before, but here it’s so fragmented that it’s starts to feel like a montage of meaningless images, which is hard to sit through for 104 minutes. Add in the aggressively stylized visuals and you get something that feels less like a movie, and more like footage that would be on a screen in the background of a Rob Zombie music video. For me, it's worth a watch… Just probably bot worth two watches."

— Christopher O. (3/5)

Saturn Core

"What a wild movie. So course I loved it."

— Justin M. (5/5)