Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -
Fred Vogel, owner of ToeTag Pictures, announced today that one of the company's most notorious films, August Underground's Mordum, will be hitting store shelves in a Criterion Blu-ray release in time for Halloween.
"We weren't supposed to say anything until August, just because of the joke, but I couldn't wait any longer to let everyone know - I'm super stoked on this release," said Vogel. "Criterion approached us well over a year ago, and said they were interested in Mordum. I let them have full access to every piece of footage I have, and they've done an incredible job with it."
Criterion, who are known for their extremely well put together releases of cinema's most highbrow films, have also in recent years put out several arthouse horror or vintage underground films, including Antichrist and John Waters' Multiple Maniacs.
"Mordum looks like a billion dollar film with the care that Criterion has put into this release," continued Vogel. "They did a scan, somehow, of the VHS that we shot it on. They cleaned the thing up, but still somehow left it looking like straight SOV shit, just how it should. They also packed it with special features, but I'm not going to reveal what they are just yet."
Criterion spokesman Peter Mountain said that the company is "truly overjoyed" to be able to get Mordum out to the masses.
"At this point, the only people who've really seen Mordum are extreme horror aficionados, or people who blindly stumbled into it somehow," said Mountain. "We want to be able to take this movie to the next level. To let the entire world see it, in all its bizarre, disgusting, shot-on-video fucking glory, released in a beautiful new Blu-ray set, but still looking as raw as a maggot-riddled corpse getting raped."
The movie will be available this fall, with a tentative release date for October 1st.
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