There is every other movie in the world and then there’s The Abomination.

No hype. This movie is absolutely brain destroying junk transmitted from some terrifying alternate timeline that I hope and pray never reaches our own. It’s a world where televangelist Brother Fogg can pray a tumor out of a woman, who vomits it out, and then that tumor crawls into her son who undergoes a transformation into a killing machine that feeds the many spores of the creature and pushes forward the end of all things.

This is also the kind of movie that starts with a blast forward of all the gore that you’re about to see in this movie and still not feel boring when that gore comes back. And man, that gore comes back and takes over the world of this movie, transforming protagonist Cory’s home into a panorama of teeth and blood and muscle and sinew and gristle and gore.

Man, what’s wrong with Texas? Or right? This movie feels like it wasn’t released and that it escaped like it should have been destroyed before it infected anyone’s brain but here it is, hiding in its low-fi menace out there waiting for people to watch it and wonder, “Why are people driving so much?” when they aren’t wretching from the endless parade of blood and viscera being literally thrown at the screen and the dubbed soundtrack which makes me love this movie even more, because when you put your budget into gigantic monsters that emerge from appliances and kitchen nooks, you don’t have the cash for synched sound.

Director and writer Bret McCormick also made parts of Tabloid and the films Time Tracers and Repligator. Even at this early stage, he’s showing off a real eye of how to use the budget and how to pretty much frighten you through the sheer strangeness of what he’s created.

This isn’t a perfect movie but perfection is an ideal that cannot exist. This is The Abomination.

I can’t even explain how excited I am about this release. Beyond the new producer-supervised SD master from original tape source — I’ve never seen this movie look better — there’s a limited edition slipcase by The Dude, 1 12-page mini-comic book, commentary with director Bret McCormick, Rob Hauschild and Matt Desiderio of Visual Vengeance, a second commentary with Tony Strauss of Weng’s Chop Magazine, interviews with McCormick, Blue Thompson, Victoria Chaney, The Abomination‘s original VHS distributor: Michael Jack Shoel, a locations tour, several reels of outtakes, raw footage and behind the scenes, an image gallery some of Bret’s Super 8 films, a trailer archive of his films, a 6-page book with an essay by Tony Strauss, a “Stick Your Own” VHS sticker set, a reversible sleeve with the original VHS artwork and more.

Honestly, I can’t think of another movie that will come out on physical media this year that I will care more about. This is everything. You can get it from MVD.