My Crepitus (I Never Left the White Room) (US Import BLU-RAY)

US Import

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

Additional info:

• 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