From the guys that made this...

It should come as no surprise to anyone who has either seen our film or, hell, just spent five minutes on this message board that we made a movie with some considerable flaws in it. One guy on here even said it made him want to kill himself. (You're gonna have to get in line there buddy!) That said, we actually really appreciate the honesty and opinions of everyone that has posted here. Even that guy. Many of them hurt to read. Not because they were untrue, but because some of them were dead on. Of course, there have also been plenty of times where we felt folks were misinformed or off the mark or both. It would be boring for us to go into the details with that and ultimately fruitless. As good of an explanation as we could muster, it's not gonna keep anyone from hating the film. It just barely keeps us from that and we made the damn thing!

Here's the skinny on the film. This movie was indeed supposed to be a German Expressionist style film with mythological, even Messianic overtones building out of the details of an unfilmed prequel in which we had built up the origin of Amducious and how he came to power through many crude generations of an inbred settlement in the Catskill Mountains. Sure, we were going for a pretty broad tone. But, mainly, we were trying to stay true to the narrative of Lovecraft's original 4-page story while departing from it really in just one key way. A departure from the story which put us on the road to making a horror movie instead of a sci-fi film.

Now, that was the intention. Obviously, what came out (as you can hear about on the brutally honest, if slightly inebriated via red bull and vodka, commentary track) was only the slightest sliver of that original intention. But, for only $100,000 and 15 days to shoot a 35mm, period horror film with extensive effects, a mostly amateur cast, unseasoned producers and one seriously lousy *beep* wig, we were pretty much doomed before calling out the first "Action!" And, yes, as with all low-budget films we encountered thousands of problems along the way, not the least of which being 26 cans of film being exposed to radiation when a crew member decided to "check" the undeveloped film onto a plane as luggage. (Which should tell you everything you need to know about the "seizure-inducing" editing and the repetition of a handful of shots for a good chunk of the run time.)

But, despite all of that, we came up with something that we are loosely "happy" with. Happy mainly because we finished the damn thing in a low-budget world where the majority of these types of productions end up as a pile of unedited footage sitting in some failed producers laundry room gathering dust.

We don't want to defend this film. It is what it is. Our plan is to try to redeem it by making another movie. Like Ed Wood said when told by a studio executive that "Glen or Glenda" was the worst film he'd ever seen - "Well, my next one will be better!"

Make no mistake, we take a certain twisted, geeky pride in the comments of the many here and other places who have declared this the "WORST MOVIE EVER." That's a rare honor and one we will wear with pride.

Again, we say thank you to each and every one of you for posting here and sharing your thoughts. It's given us thick skins and, to the dread of many, has only inspired us to try again!

Best regards,
Barrett Klausman & Thom Maurer

PS - Just so you know that are heads aren't completely up our own asses - we fully recognize that the DVD box artwork was completely misleading! Our concept is the cover that is featured on the IMDB page. Gotta love marketing! That said, someone should really make a movie about the guy that's on the box cover. That movie looks awesome!